how can i set up a simple portal?

2001-11-19 Thread Noah 

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



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Re: how can i set up a simple portal?

2001-11-19 Thread Kevin Meltzer 

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
 

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Re: how can i set up a simple portal?

2001-11-19 Thread Curtis Poe 


--- Kevin Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 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.

It may be gone.  This *used* to be that backdoor:

http://www8.cnn.com/HLN/virtual/swf.headline.txt

Cheers,
Curtis Ovid Poe

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