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RSS Parsing
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:57 pm
by GeXus
Does anyone know how sites like feedster and others parse so many RSS feeds apporopriatly? Since each XML is different, how do they know where to grab the titles, descriptions, etc. from the feeds? feedster has 43,979,254 feeds, there is no way it was done manually.
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:04 pm
by panic!
Hey i think theres about 5 different versions of the RSS specification, check this out; it may help.
http://rss-net.sourceforge.net/document ... rison.html
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:06 pm
by GeXus
Oh brilliant, thanks!
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:14 pm
by GeXus
Also, another question.. When sites like that search RSS feeds, are they actually searching the feeds themselves? what is the best way.. or would you store the feed data in a database and search that way?