I stumbled upon Paul Gallagher’s blog from the OTN TechBlog. Paul created a Perl script that scrapes the HTML of an Oracle forum user profile web page and generates an RSS feed from that user’s most recent posts.
When I saw “HTML scraping” I immediately thought of Dapper. I have used Dapper before to generate a […]
That’s what Dapper allows you to do. It allows you to build web applications and mashups using data from any website on the Internet.
For example, AskTom has three RSS feeds available: just updated, hot articles and most popular. The just updated feed includes updates to new and old questions. It would have been nice if […]
After reading “Why I’ m asking for full-text RSS feeds” by Constantin Basturea, and “Only Generous Bloggers Influence” by Steve Rubel, I have decided to publish my blog’s feed as a full text instead of just a summary.
As a blogger, why wouldn’t you publish a full-text feed? I can think of the following reasons:
Increase page […]