The other day I wrote a program that will produce an RSS feed from a list of URLs. I did this because a few of the pages that I like to read on a daily basis (such as Pitchfork) don’t have feeds. And these days, if a site doesn’t have a feed, I usually don’t remember to read it.
If this is something you’d like to try out, leave a comment and I’ll send you the instructions for setting it up. I’d post it on this site, but it’s way too rough for public use yet.
Also, if you know of a program or service that already does this, please let me know. I’d hate to waste my time replicating someone else’s work.
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Matt, I’d love to test out your code. I have a couple pages that I’ve experimented with doing some screenscraping with php.
Also, while they’re not official, here are some feeds that I use to read Pitchfork. They work pretty well (but I’d rather take my “scraping” in-house than depend on someone I don’t know doing the work for me).
Pitchfork Music News: http://www.marteydodoo.com/rss/pitchfork_news.rss
Pitchfork Album Reviews: http://www.marteydodoo.com/rss/pitchfork_reviews.rss
Pitchfork Track Reviews: http://www.marteydodoo.com/rss/pitchfork_wearetheworld.rss
Because it’s intended to be able to pull any URL, it doesn’t do any parsing of the pages. It just dumps all of the text (minus as much of the formatting I can remove) into the feed.
Still, it’s nicer than no feed at all.
Does it do more or less what Cheesegrater does?
Yes. I guess that’s as far is this project will go.
Yours may have been better. Goodness knows your Spotlight script pretty much 0wn3d Apple’s implementation. :-)