Re: GrabNews - ASP RDF/RSS newsgrabber

[JohnMunsch@zwave.com]

I'm assuming you currently use something like this:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="/headlines/entertainment.js"></SCRIPT>

to refer to a javascript file that will write the headlines for you
and the file is being generated by another site.

My own RSS project HotSheet
(http://www.johnmunsch.com/projects/HotSheet) has an RSS library that
comes with it. One of the example programs that demonstrates using the
library takes a URL on the command line and the name of a .js script
to write to and it pulls the channel and writes it to a javascript file.

You could combine the two and schedule them to run periodically on one
of your machines and you would be able to syndicate everything to your
websites without needing anybody else's site to be up and working.
After you generate the file you could automatically upload it to your
server using something like curl (http://curl.haxx.se/).

John Munsch

P.S. If you want to be able to use the HotSheet RSS library and see
the demo program you need to download the latest version of the source
from the SourceForge project page
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/hotsheet/).

--- In syndication@y..., Rod Davies <rdavies@o...> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> We are beginners at displaying RSS news feeds on our site, though we 
> maintain a daily RSS news feed for other sites registered at all the
right 
> places. Up to now we have used David Carter Todd's excellent service
and 
> News Is Free equally great service. However, the problem which Pino and 
> Mike have encountered has meant we cant continue the News IS free
service 
> until we get a system to cache their feeds on our remotely-hosted
server.
> 
> We have looked at your ASP RDF/RSS newsgrabber as Pino recommended
it but 
> note it needs the XML3 parser and a SQL database. This has put our 
> webmasters in a fix as they dont really know how to handle it, and
how we 
> instruct the ISP web space provider how to install it. He is likely
to not 
> want to do it or charge us major us dollars to install it. (We are a 
> Malaysian site and any service in US dollars is extremely expensive
for us).
> 
> One great thing about Dave's and the NEws IS Free service is that
you didnt 
> have to involve the server techs in any way.
> 
> Do you have any further advice for novices rather than technically
gifted 
> than what is on your website?
> 
> Any others who have solutions we would really be grateful...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 05:19 PM 8/15/01, you wrote:
> >Version 1.2 of GrabNews - the ASP RDF/RSS newsheadline grabber code.
> >
> >New features includes URL error checking and user-friendly error
> >messages. Also includes a very basic, at the moment, add news page
> >for adding RDF/RSS page links. And is released under the GPL.
> >
> >To download it goto: http://website.lineone.net/~dazzlepm.
> >
> >Paul
> >
> >
> >
> >
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