Ingestics – API and RSS Automation

Ingestics is a WordPress automation plugin for ingesting and publishing external content from REST APIs and RSS/Atom feeds.

Ingestics(TM) is a product by AutoAPIWP.

Features included in this WordPress.org package:
* API + RSS ingestion in one admin interface
* Up to 3 API providers and 2 RSS providers
* Manual fetch controls for API and RSS
* API and RSS request/response preview panels
* JSON path mapping (basic)
* XML/CSV field mapping support
* Duplicate protection and content quality checks
* Activity log with fetched/created/filtered/duplicate/error/unaccounted counts
* Source attribution controls
* Featured image sideload support
* Setup wizards and guided provider setup flow
* Security-focused request handling and secret masking

Optional separate commercial extension:
* Additional scheduling/rotation modes
* Additional provider adapters and OAuth flows
* Additional frontend layouts and advanced transform/pipeline controls

The commercial extension is distributed separately from this WordPress.org package.

Why Ingestics

• One plugin handles both API and RSS pipelines
• Provider-level controls for mapping, auth, publish mode, and enrichment
• Detailed logging for operational visibility
• Works with user-configured providers and feed endpoints

API Capabilities

• HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE
• Optional HEAD/OPTIONS via compatibility toggle
• Auth modes: none, API key, bearer, basic
• Custom headers/body support
• Pagination support for supported provider formats
• Retry and basic rate-limit handling
• Google Sheets share/edit URLs can be normalized to CSV export endpoints

RSS Capabilities

• Feed ingestion with provider controls
• RSS/Atom support
• Optional full-text extraction mode when configured

Content & Publish Controls

• Publish modes: publish, draft, pending
• Duplicate detection by source/title safeguards
• Source attribution block and labels
• Featured image sideloading controls

Front-end Output

• Shortcodes: [auto_api_feed], [aapi_feed]
• Template tags: aapi_get_feed(), aapi_render_feed()
• Gutenberg block: ingestics/feed

External Services

This plugin may connect to external services depending on your configuration:

Freemius

Used for licensing/account management and plugin updates when enabled by the site administrator.
Service: https://freemius.com
Privacy: https://freemius.com/privacy
Terms: https://freemius.com/terms

Pexels

Used only when stock image fallback is explicitly enabled and configured by the site administrator.
Service: https://www.pexels.com
Privacy: https://www.pexels.com/privacy-policy
Terms: https://www.pexels.com/terms-of-service

LibreTranslate

Used only when translation is explicitly enabled and configured by the site administrator.
Endpoint is configured by the site administrator.

User-configured APIs and RSS feeds

By design, this plugin fetches data from REST APIs and RSS feeds configured by the site administrator.
No data is sent to external endpoints unless enabled and configured by an administrator.