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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I'm guessing the documentation is insufficient for what you need?
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Kovid,
I did look at the FAQ and the samples provided there a while back. But I think the New York Times example was a bit too complex for me, at least at the time. I will go back, though, and study the examples in more depth. I also plan to print out more of the recipes to compare them to one another and the associated Web sites to try to figure out what each is doing.
I guess what I need to know is:
- When you guys come up with a well-working recipe for a site such as the New York Times or New Statesman, are you looking at the source HTML code from the site? How do you know what tags to remove, for example?
- How do you fetch an entire article from a news site? What code segment does that? For example, I downloaded Ars Technica today to read while at lunch. While reading the Ars Technica articles, I noticed that only a summary for each article is presented. You're told to click on a link to read the rest. I'd like to edit the recipe to see if I could get the rest of those articles. What code in Darko Miletic's New Statesman recipe forces the fetching of entire articles? Would the same code solve the Ars Technica problem or would it have to be changed in some way?
Instead of a workshop, would you or Darko (?) have time to answer such questions as mine above? I understand object-oriented programming languages like Java and C++, and know several of the older procedural languages, so I think I could grasp what I need to know to write more recipes if given some of the basics.
Thanks...
Xanthan Gum