Richard, If you are not into coding too much, follow the URLs in the feeds, but exchange the /hi/ for a /low/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7250068.stm becomes http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/business/7250068.stm Then look for the first <h2> in the data. If you are using PHP, you can get a long way using.. $strContents=strstr(strip_tags(join("",file(" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/business/7250068.stm";)),"<h2>"),"<h2>"); On 17/02/2008, Richard Askew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, firs time poster here! > > I wondered if you could help me. I am currently in my final year of > University and I am currently drawing up ideas for my dissertation. I am > looking to do some work with the BBC news feeds. At the moment I can receive > the feeds and get the headline and brief description of the story. Is there > a way in which I could go on and retrieve the whole news story for that > particular feed so it can be presented in an application? > > Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you. > > Richard Askew > > ***************************************************************************************** > To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to > http://www.hull.ac.uk/legal/email_disclaimer.html > > ***************************************************************************************** > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
