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heavyB · 11-02-2006, 12:47 AM

Thanks Neilm2 and nice find on that BBC link. They're few and far between. The New York Times has a nice print only format, but only after loading the full story page (no index).

Geekraver, I fully agree with what you're saying here. Basically a scraper app or scraping service with individual profiles for different web sites. Heh, an online scraping service wouldn't last long, but if we had a combo app that offered updated profiles of web sites via online service that would work with an app like your rss2book (scrape2book?) there wouldn't be much trouble with getting shutdown by the ad mongers (the real reason sites don't serve full text RSS or offer text only services)

I'm not too shabby at Web app dev (mostly CFML) and parsing, but I have little to no stand alone app dev experience. This of course should be moved to the dev subcategory in the forum. I'd be interested in discussing it futher.

11-02-2006, 12:47 AM	#5
heavyB Member Posts: 23 Karma: 47 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: Sony Reader/Treo 600	Thanks Neilm2 and nice find on that BBC link. They're few and far between. The New York Times has a nice print only format, but only after loading the full story page (no index). Geekraver, I fully agree with what you're saying here. Basically a scraper app or scraping service with individual profiles for different web sites. Heh, an online scraping service wouldn't last long, but if we had a combo app that offered updated profiles of web sites via online service that would work with an app like your rss2book (scrape2book?) there wouldn't be much trouble with getting shutdown by the ad mongers (the real reason sites don't serve full text RSS or offer text only services) I'm not too shabby at Web app dev (mostly CFML) and parsing, but I have little to no stand alone app dev experience. This of course should be moved to the dev subcategory in the forum. I'd be interested in discussing it futher.