Automate news seacrh from other websites

[royend@gmail.com]

Hi.
Everyday of my life the last year has started by searching through a
lot websites in order to find the latest news, and then making a link
to that news from my webpage. What I have always dreamt about is some
kind of automation.

Is it possible to make a script in ASP that searches through a website
and gathers info on title, URL and such, and then automatically
inserting it into my website (via for instance a SQL database)?

Looking forward to your answers.

[Mike Brind]

Re: Automate news seacrh from other websites


royend@gmail.co m wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi.
> Everyday of my life the last year has started by searching through a
> lot websites in order to find the latest news, and then making a link
> to that news from my webpage. What I have always dreamt about is some
> kind of automation.
>
> Is it possible to make a script in ASP that searches through a website
> and gathers info on title, URL and such, and then automatically
> inserting it into my website (via for instance a SQL database)?
>
> Looking forward to your answers.[/color]

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2173, then use regular expressions to
extract the bits you are interested in.

--Mike Brind

[royend@gmail.com]

Re: Automate news seacrh from other websites

Thanks!
It really worked...

Also, if someone out there has problems with international characters
when outputting the result, try putting this in your ASP-code:

Response.Charse t = "latin1"

Then the charset is forced to "latin1" (iso-8859-1), but you can use
other values as well. Consult MSDN for valid values.

royend:)

[Ron Hinds]

Re: Automate news seacrh from other websites

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Hi.
Everyday of my life the last year has started by searching through a
lot websites in order to find the latest news, and then making a link
to that news from my webpage. What I have always dreamt about is some
kind of automation.
>
Is it possible to make a script in ASP that searches through a website
and gathers info on title, URL and such, and then automatically
inserting it into my website (via for instance a SQL database)?
>
Looking forward to your answers.

Isn't that exactly what RSS is for?

http://www.w3schools.com/rss/default.asp