On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 06:19:04 -0400 ... I've been using a derivation of this for the last few weeks, piping the results into procmail etc. Quite simply:...
... If all you want to do is RSS-to-email conversion, adding a POP3 layer wouldn't be necessary, and something like Aarons rss2email script is probably all you...
Abe Fettig
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... Hi there. I tried out AmphetaOutlines extensivly for the last two days. For me, AmphetaDesk together with AmphetaOutlines really is the best RSS aggregator...
I'm sure when Morbus gets up, he'll reply to this as well, but... On Tuesday, Oct 8, 2002, at 12:50 Europe/London, Benjamin Heitmann ... Kevin's feed is...
Good morning Benjamin and Ben, ... When in doubt, look in your AmphetaDesk.log file. 99% of the time, it's due to one of two things: 1) the XML file is not...
... One point to consider is you can query Syndic8.com for status on a feed. Using XML-RPC you can pull out whether the feed is known to be in a working...
... For the 50 or so channels that I follow in AmphetaDesk, any problems I have are almost always related to this issue. Of the cases where the XML file is not...
... That's what I expected. Do the feeds, and the other readers, a favor and complain. If not to the feed source then to the syndic8 mailing list. ... Using...
Hi all, I've joined the aggregators group to primarily test a new software application we are using for messaging. If anyone is interested in being part of the...
... Hash: SHA1 ... <snip/> Bad CSS could potentially break an HTML based browser. I am considering explicitly cleansing the HTML to remove any style...
AmphetaDesk v0.93.1 is now available. Released on October 31st 2002, this version arrives due to the results of a gentleman's poll on the amphetadesk- discuss...
First off let me introduce myself: My name is Mike Agar, and I have been lurking on this list for a while, (I contemplated sending this message to teh...
... It's an interesting concept. It does a good job of enabling admins build regular expressions for matching without having to learn the ins and outs of regex...
I've had good results using finite state machines to scrape data from HTML. Transitions can be based on the type of HTML tag, or any of the attributes of the...
... Wouldn't it be better to have the sites producing their own feeds? While I agree scraping has merit, what about engaging the sites to create their own ...
... their own ... Absolutely. And perhaps it's a more fruitful effort to evangelise syndication, rather than infrastructure to share scrapers. I certainly...
Greetings I'm experimenting with publishing dynamic content in weblogs, and have run into some interesting questions I want to offer up for consideration....
... using CSS seems as fragile as javascript as it is likely to be stripped out by the aggregator. there is just too much room for obnoxious CSS: making ...
... Justin makes a good point about resource and schedule management. It would be /very/ helpful to have the various aggregation and reader programs take a...
Justin, Bill, Thanks for the comments, and I very much agree that smarter clients are the way to go -- that's the idea for the post -- the methods I've tried...
Read up on Microsoft's old efforts on Outlook Digital Desktop modules. There's a rich range of work done in them. This sort of stuff has been given a lot of ...
Over the past several months I've been developing a server based aggregator: The Genecast News Service. The Genecast News Service converts XML newsfeeds to...
Hi, Recently I read somewhere that you can get the results of a newsisfree search as an rss feed, especially if they don't have a regular news feed that meets...
I don't have the NIF format but here is the Moreover format: http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?query=%22Shoppers%20Drug%20Mart% 22&n=10&o=rss Query: %22 is...
Mike, ... currently NewsIsFree does not offer this service. But, if our current database problems go away, we'll soon have RSS exports of search queries as...
Thanks! I also discovered that Yahoo! public Groups have an RSS feed, e.g., http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aggregators/messages?rss=1 Groups that are private...
Just to note, the rss feed is available for private groups, if you are a member of the group and signed in to Yahoo. And the plug ;) - the YGroups module for...
You'd have to mimic the cookie parsing behaviors in order to get this to work in an aggregator program. Given yahoo's tendency to fiddle with the web...
It's not so hard. This url should work perputually http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?login=[your_login]&passwd=[your_password] For private groups, GET that...