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How to import affiliate feeds as joomla content

The datafeeds component does not provide a method to import affiliate feeds directly as Joomla content. I would blow up your site.

Considerations

Affiliate feeds mostly contains large amounts of data, categorized in multiple levels. Joomla only has two levels to categorize articles. Although there are extensions allowing tagging.

Another problem is that Joomla is not designed to handle several thousands of articles, (can be done, sure).  The same holds for the tagging extensions, these (probably) can't handle large numbers of tags. WordPress for example will choke on a category tree containing a couple of thousand tags (the editor goes down first).

But importing small sets of data, for example top-10 feeds, might be feasible.  Plus comment on this article if you would like the functionality.