“Turn almost any page into a RSS feed, and get the latest information no matter how it is published.”
WEB2RSS is cool…
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July 13th, 2006 at 1:15 am
Doh. I was just thinking of the same thing this very morning. Maybe it is true that whatever one thinks of has already been invented? The new is the forgotten old? Oh well.
July 13th, 2006 at 4:55 am
A tip: To prevent including some none-content information that is dynamically updated (like the spam count on this site, or a comment count, date boxes and other types of content that changes every time the page is loaded), you can exclude them.
The problem is that because this non-content changes, the RSS is marked as unread every time it is requested (eventhough the real content stays the same).
I admit that the exclude system is not the most user-friendly part of the system, but it is powerful.
To exclude the spam count you can use:
<div[^>]*>This blog is protected.+?</div>
To exclude the a reply count on most forums you can use
<td[^>]*>.+?(replies|reply)</td>
BTW: Thanks for the link!