One is that it's simple, showing only links, not item content. There are a couple of things you should notice about this USA Today feed ( Figure 6.4). To subscribe to this new feed, use the XML button. News & Information Homepage Up-to-the-minute news & information including National and International News, Money, Sports, Life, Tech and Weather news updated 24/7. The new feed is based on the home page of. When you click the Create button, the new sample channel is created for you ( Figure 6.3).įigure 6.3. The USA Today's URL has been entered in FeedFire's Create a Channel page ( Figure 6.2).įigure 6.2. In this example, a sample feed for the home page was created to show how FeedFire works. After you've set your user name and password, log in, and it's time to create a new channel by scraping a Web page. To log in you need to register first, and registration is free. Both kinds are valid, so which software you choose is up to you.ĭon't start scraping Web sites and publishing the content in your own RSS feeds before you get permission.įeedFire (is an easy software package to start with ( Figure 6.1).įigure 6.1. Some software looks at a site and guesses what you want in an RSS feed, and other software requires that you set up your site in a certain way so it can scrape data off it easily. In the RSS world, the process of extracting data from a Web site is called scraping, and there are several ways to do it.
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