How does a site "scrape" headlines and text from other sites and display it as news?

Discussion in 'Scripts' started by smi, Feb 12, 2008.

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    smi, Feb 12, 2008 IP
  2. aaron_nimocks

    aaron_nimocks Im kind of a big deal Staff

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    Most of the sites that display news from other sites is done using RSS Feeds.
     
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    Use RSS feeds to get the news stories from the source. When the RSS feed is parsed for display on your site, the urls/links are filtered through another page which contains the ad and a "click to continue" link. No, I don't know of any off the shelf scripts that do this but it isn't that hard to take an existing script and modify it to do so.
     
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    Of course, RSS. Thank you guys!

    I'll try to find a RSS expert to hire to do this.
     
    smi, Feb 12, 2008 IP