Hi Noah, Why not use RSS? My book has a chapter on using it, or to save money you can look at that chapter online: http://perlcgi-book.com/sample/chapter16.pdf
A good past article from perl.com: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/01/rss.html Also, the current article on perl.com: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/15/creatingrss.html You can find some RSS content here: http://www.xmltree.com/index.html I also think cnn.com ha(s|d) a 'backdoor' with simple text for headlines. I don't recall the URL, maybe someone else has it. HTH, Kevin On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 06:36:04PM -0500, Noah ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > I want to make a CGI that grabs the top few headlines from major (or not) > news sites such as the new york times and cnn, and places them as hyperlinks > on my web page. I know there is a lot of stuff out there to do this, but > I'm doing this as a learning excercise, so I'd like to know if anyone has > any ideas on doing this from scratch or knows of existing code which is very > simple. > > Thanks, > > Noah > -- [Writing CGI Applications with Perl - http://perlcgi-book.com] Who are the brain police? -- Frank Zappa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
