Re: [syndication] Easy to Generate RSS Utilities?

["ml_yahoo" <ml_yahoo@ideaspace.net>]

The easiest would be to run you /own/ screen scraper.  Just run it from the
command line and have it save the output to a static file.  That way the tools
you use to create your site won't need to do anything differently.  You'll just
run the scraper locally and put that file on the static web server.  Works
great.

The alternative, perhaps, is to move up to a system like MovableType and use it
to manage the items.  You don't have to use it to create a website but it'd
certainly make it easy.  There's a lot of flexibility to it so you don't have to
create something solely resembling a personal weblog.

Simpler than that?  Managing a site in plain HTML is actually a lot harder than
using most content handling systems.  There's greymatter, b2, movabletype,
pmachine and a ton of others, not to mention the slash and nuke style of sites.
All of which can produce RSS quite handily.

-Bill Kearney

----- Original Message -----
From: <pgrote@yahoo.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 3:55 PM
Subject: [syndication] Easy to Generate RSS Utilities?


> I am hoping you can help me out here ... a while back I figured out
> the RSS format through trial and error and created one for a site I
> used to own. It was .92. Now there is a new format, etc.
>
> I can download someone's RSS file and cut and paste my info into it,
> but it's not the timeliest way of doing it.
>
> A couple of questions:
> 1) Is there an application I can use to put my text in manually and
> the application create the file? My site is primarily reviews and
> articles. I would imagine something that let's me put in a title
> field, text blurb, author, date, etc.
> 2) What are some of the easier to use screen scraping RSS generators?
>
> The site is straight HTML and I am not using a content management
> system.
>
> I really hope this was the correct forum. I do not have a programming
> background, but I am technically inclined. Thanks!