Screen scraping your way into RSS
(Page 1 out of 3)RSS is one the hottest technologies at the moment, and even big web publishers (such as the New York Times) are getting into RSS as well. However, there are still a lot of websites that do not have RSS feeds.
If you still want to be able to check those websites in your favourite aggregator, you need to create your own RSS feed for those websites. This can be done automatically with PHP, using a method called screen scrapping. Screen scrapping is usually frowned upon, as it�s mostly used to steal content from other websites.
I personally believe that in this case, to automatically generate a RSS feed, screen scrapping is not a bad thing. Now, on to the code!
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January 22nd, 2006 at 3:19 am
When trying to view the code:
Security Alert! Breach has been logged for review (IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx).
February 16th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
I’m getting the same in Firefox.
Security Alert! Breach has been logged for review (IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx).
April 20th, 2006 at 8:44 pm
Viewing the code in Internet Explorer 6 works fine. Thanks for posting this example! :)
July 25th, 2006 at 12:24 am
The code works great!
How could I scrape just meta data or links ect into a text file?
Thanks for any input.