XML or RSS feeds
I am trying to find a script that will post a the news headlines from like Yahoo News on my site from a RSS or XML Feed. Anyone know of any scripts that will help me accomplish this ... right now I am manually updating the news every couple hours. HELP!!
heebiejeebieclu posted this at 16:55 — 22nd December 2004.
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Yes, exactly.
I keep seeing "signs" saying RSS Feed - put this on your website. How?
Or can I just paste the code it gives me directly into my page, per chance?
CptAwesome posted this at 00:21 — 28th December 2004.
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RSS is a specific "standard" for how to write certain XML documents, for the specific purpose of them being displayed on other websites or through RSS readers.
There is lots that can be explained about RSS and how the standards work etc, but that isn't what you asked. You want to know how to make the feeds show up on your page. This is easy, you just have to find a PHP/Perl/CGI/ASP/etc script that can read the RSS, and process it into a manner that you want it to appear.
Should be able to find at least 1 you like on http://www.sourceforge.net just look around a bit, they are pretty ubiquitous
CptAwesome posted this at 00:24 — 28th December 2004.
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Oh, and Yahoo has a whole page about it, since thats what you're looking to use http://news.yahoo.com/rss
fifeclub posted this at 21:56 — 3rd January 2005.
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When I was experimenting with displaying an RSS feed from my employers site, I didn't feel like going through all the trouble of installing aggrigator scripts. I found three good sites that will parse the RSS code for you and give you the custom output with just a simple cut and paste code. Check out these three links:
http://www.howdev.com/services/feedsweep/
http://www.bigbold.com/rssdigest/index.html
http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/index.php?s=build
This is a good way to get an RSS feed on your website with very little effort. However if you get Google-like traffic you may not want to rely on a 3rd party to parse for you. Hope that helps.
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