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External data sources

Functions you should know

Drupal_http_request
Fsock open call to grab ext data
Pass url get array

Cache_set and get

Drupal_execute
Execute a form array

therickards.com/api/drupalcon

Convert dburl in settings to an array

Db_set_active

Using simple xml
Map module
Job queue
Import manager
Map fec

Govtrack.us

Full text searching
Run through content filter
Swish module

Pull info from mhyspace
Dataminer api module
Curl
Htmltidy
Simplexml
Xpath from firebug to plug into dataminer

This would work for pulling in stuff for water levels or snowfall for wtk

Feedapi and feedapi mapper
Pulls rss and maps to cck fields

Pipes yahoo
module on kens site