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Re: News Aggregator Software
> Scraping from web pages is an adventure. It will break should the
site in
> question do anything to change what your scraper depends upon. In
general it's
> considered better all around to encourage the source to create
their own RSS
> feed. They're not hard to make, most content/portal tools support
it. Or can
> be made to do so easily.
All true, except that I took his situation to be that he already had
a feed but wanted the *articles* in plain-text. Surely nobody is
going to provide the entire body of the article in the feed.
Maybe Josh can clarify...?