There is an indirect way of plucking The Inquirer and The Register (as well as other news sites) via Google News:
1) Visit google news (http://news.google.com/) 2) Select "Advanced Search" 3) Fill in the form as follows: a) "Return only articles from the news source named" <- "inquirer" b) "Return only articles from news sources located in" <- "uk" c) "Return articles published" <- "last day" (selection) 4) Select "Google Search" 5) If everything goes well, you will get a list of story links to The Inquirer for the past day (or nothing if no new content has appeared in the past day). 6) Copy the url to plucker spider. You can try to trim the url by removing some parts of the url and testing to see if it still gets the articles you want. 7) Setup the spider to grab content (1 level) from The Inquirer website only (i.e. urls that begin with "http://www.theinquirer.net/"; 8) Pluck away...};-) I have been using it to get content from EurekAlert, New Scientist and Motley Fool. It doesn't work with all sites and doesn't grab a subset of contents (i.e., the 'Technology' news section of a news site), but it gets the job done relatively well. Regards, Kam-Yung >From konstantin neo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 1 Sep 2003: > Hi . > I read The Register and the Inquierer alot and I wish to do it on my > Palm > Zire71 with pluker 1.4.0.2 . > But I dont know how. > Is there a way to sync only the new topics ? I see plucker as a > webspider > mosty (like teleport) but does it inteligent web spidering ? Just to > sync > the recent news every day . > > Please advice. _______________________________________________________ The FREE service that prevents junk email http://www.mailshell.com _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
