Automate news seacrh from other websites

[royend]

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]

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.

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

--Mike Brind

 

[royend]

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.Charset = "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]

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