Re: Washington Post politics headlines

[tdgoddard@yahoo.com]

A demo of the script I use to pull RSS headlines is located at:

http://anacondapartners.com/cgi-local/apexec.pl?
template=ap_cliptemplate2.html&f3=ap_cliphead_rss.html&f4=inc_clip_rss
.html

You can test it at this page by pluggin in URLs to RSS files.

The actual script is obfuscated so I cannot change it myself.

I think the script must choke on the <item> tag differences between 
RSS .91 and RSS 1.0. I've asked for Anaconda to update the script 
(it's really a nice script otherwise) but we'll see.



--- In syndication@y..., Aaron Swartz <aswartz@s...> wrote:
> tdgoddard@y... <tdgoddard@y...> wrote:
> 
> > Of course I ran into a problem with my perl script that reads RSS
> > files (Anaconda Clipper at anaconda.net) in that it doesn't seem 
to
> > be able to read RSS 1.0 format. What a drag... I either need to 
find
> > a new script or get Anaconda to update theirs.
> 
> Odd. RSS 1.0 should be perfectly compatible with things that can 
read 0.9 --
> if you send me the script I can take a look at it.
> 
> > How do you make these so quick? Is there an easy way to teach 
someone
> > with modest programming skills?
> 
> Sure, it's much easier now since I've set up a system for making 
them. You
> can make them too -- here's what to do:
> 
> 1) First, view source for the page.
> 
> 2) Find the piece of HTML that signifies the beginning of the list 
of RSS
> items. It might be something obvious, like a comment that says <!-- 
this is
> the beginning of the list --> or perhaps it's the beginning of a 
<TABLE>. Do
> the same thing for the end of the list.
> 
> 3) Then find something that signifies the beginning and end of each 
item.
> For this page it was pretty simple -- <p> and </p>.
> 
> 4) Finish up by writing a title and description for the feed.
> 
> Send all of these bits to me, along with the URL for the site, and 
I'll put
> it up. And again, if you control the site, you can do it all 
automatically
> by following the instructions at:
> 
> http://logicerror.com/blogifyYourPage
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> [ Aaron Swartz | me@a... | http://www.aaronsw.com ]