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What exactly is URL scraping?

If I have a URL of a news article, how can I grab its RSS Feed Entry?

  • My application needs to fetch the exact contents of the RSS Feed entry corresponding to that news article URL. Scraping/Parsing the page is not an option.

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    Without knowing your specific application development environment, it's hard to be precise. The key technology to do what you want is "auto-discovery". This is when a site embeds the location of its RSS feeds in the meta data of the web page. So you don't need to scrape or parse. Many tools support auto-discovery. So if you have an RSS package that supports auto-discovery, one typically creates an object using the web page URL rather than the RSS feed URL. Then the tool will look for the embedded <link> tags and automatically discover the RSS feed location. Here's a link to more on this: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery

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Are you trying to fetch the category of the article or are you fine if you generate an rss feed for that article? A kind of 1 item feed for that specif article

Charly Omer

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