An Episerver scheduled job that pulls news items from a feed and adds them to an Episerver Find index

IndexNewsFeedItems.cs

namespace YourNamespace.Business.ScheduledJobs
{
    using System;
    using System.Linq;
    using EPiServer.DataAbstraction;
    using EPiServer.Find;
    using EPiServer.PlugIn;
    using EPiServer.Scheduler;

    [ScheduledPlugIn(
        DisplayName = "Index News Feed Items",
        Description = "",
        SortIndex = 0,
        DefaultEnabled = true,
        InitialTime = "1.1:0:0",
        IntervalLength = 24,
        IntervalType = ScheduledIntervalType.Hours)]
    public class IndexNewsItems : ScheduledJobBase
    {
        private bool _stopSignaled;
        private static IClient _client;
        private static readonly ILogger _logger = LogManager.GetLogger();

        public IndexNewsItems(IClient client)
        {
            _client = client;
            IsStoppable = true;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Called when a user clicks on Stop for a manually started job, or when ASP.NET shuts down.
        /// </summary>
        public override void Stop()
        {
            _stopSignaled = true;
            base.Stop();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Called when a scheduled job executes
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>A status message to be stored in the database log and visible from admin mode</returns>
        public override string Execute()
        {
            //Call OnStatusChanged to periodically notify progress of job for manually started jobs
            OnStatusChanged("Starting execution of News Item Indexer");
            
            try
            {                
                // Get a list of all new news items from a feed
                // Add your own implementation of FeedReader.GetLatestNewsFeed()
                var newsItems = FeedReader.GetLatestNewsFeed();
                // Loop through the items, get the detail object and add it to the index.
                foreach (var item in newsItems)
                {
                    // Add your own implementation of FeedReader.GetNewsFeedDeatils(? id)
                    // Would return your custom news item model that will get indexed
                    var detail = FeedReader.GetNewsFeedDeatils(item.ReleaseID);
                    detail.IsHiddenFromSearch = false;
                    
                     // Add the item to your Find index
                    _client.Index(detail);
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                _logger.Error("Index News Item Error: " + ex.ToString());

                return "Error. Check logs for details.";
            }

            //For long running jobs periodically check if stop is signaled and if so stop execution
            if (_stopSignaled)
            {
                Stop();
                return "Stop of job was called";
            }

            return "Success!";
        }
    }
}