[LINK] ABC (and other) RSS feeds

[Ivan Trundle]

To Howard and other Linkers

>From the author of the ANU website links that parse ABC (and other)
news content:

"My [screen-scraping] script just opens the normal web page and then
runs some rather esoteric regular expressions to extract the headlines.
I just viewed the source and examined it. It's not too hard. The ABC
site uses styles like: <h1 class="indexheadline">. Every now and then
they do an upgrade which breaks things."

He has no objections at all to people using his scripts, but warns that
they might break in future revisions of the ABC website. The hazards of
screen scrpaing...

Warmly

Ivan Trundle


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Ivan Trundle
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