Can I Make This Work?

9 April 2002


RssDistiller: ”Extract rss feeds from most regular web pages.” [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson]
Probably not! At least not after my weekend of wrestling with RemoteEdit for Radio Userland. Wait a minute – late breaking help!
Paolo gives his RSS distiller for Radio a stretch:  screen shot.  Nice.  My experience is that any scraping of a website (I did it for Boston.com) requires a little work analyzing the source and finding the appropriate points in the page’s HTML to nab the headline.  A couple more iterations usually gets you the news feeds you need. [from John Robb]

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