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26-Jun-2006, 01:26 PM #1
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Is there a way to grab a snippet of news or other text content from other sites? I have heard of RSS but not sure if it does what I’m looking to do. I know you need to have an RSS reader of some type, but for my purposes, it’s for a website coded in plain ole HTML. I’d like to insert this piece of code or feed into a section of the site and if the user wants to know more they can click on a link that takes them to the source.

Thanks for any feedback.
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26-Jun-2006, 01:45 PM #2
Try using Evernote. This is one of the really great things about this program, and mostly what I use it for. You can get a free copy here:
http://www.evernote.com/en/
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26-Jun-2006, 02:56 PM #3
Sounds like basically a cut/paste tool.
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27-Jun-2006, 07:29 PM #4
No, it isn't cut and paste. It will take any info - including pictures - from the browser and store it categorically. You can paste into it, or type into it, but I mostly use it for snippets from the web. No clipboard involved.
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28-Jun-2006, 10:10 PM #5
A simple copy/paste and then a link should do it... I'm not sure if you are looking for something more complicated or different.
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28-Jun-2006, 10:44 PM #6
are you looking for an rss feed that you want automatically put into your page?
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29-Jun-2006, 12:40 PM #7
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are you looking for an rss feed that you want automatically put into your page?
Exactly!
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29-Jun-2006, 12:53 PM #8
Then I can't help you.

But atleast your question is clarified.
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29-Jun-2006, 01:51 PM #9
Well, first the "snippet" of news or content you want has to be in the form of an RSS feed, otherwise it won't work. If it is, then you can use this to generate some javascript:

http://p3k.org/rss/?setup=true
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11-Jul-2006, 12:53 PM #10
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Well, first the "snippet" of news or content you want has to be in the form of an RSS feed, otherwise it won't work. If it is, then you can use this to generate some javascript:

http://p3k.org/rss/?setup=true
Didn't mean to get back on this subject so late but I did try your suggestion and it worked. However, I was wondering if there is a way to narrow down the feed to a specific subject.

For example, on Google's News page the option to get news alerts by typing in what YOU want to receive is available. In the example you gave me there's too much news. I'd like to have one tiny paragraph inserted in an HTML page on a particular topic.

Again, thanks for your help.
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11-Jul-2006, 01:06 PM #11
Well, that has to be done on the RSS feed side (mostly). If you wanted your topic to be sports, for example, then you would have to choose a RSS feed that contains only sports-related news, and then just use the link again and set the Max. items to 1 so that it will only dislpay the most recent entry. (Right now it seems like they might be having some server problems...)

The only other option if you don't have control of the feed is to look inside the feed for a tag that would identify the topic. Then you might be able to sort them out with some custom JS, but that could get complicated. What is the feed that you are using?

Did I understand your question correctly?

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11-Jul-2006, 01:18 PM #12
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Well, that has to be done on the RSS feed side (mostly). If you wanted your topic to be sports, for example, then you would have to choose a RSS feed that contains only sports-related news, and then just use the link again and set the Max. items to 1 so that it will only dislpay the most recent entry. (Right now it seems like they might be having some server problems...)

The only other option if you don't have control of the feed is to look inside the feed for a tag that would identify the topic. Then you might be able to sort them out with some custom JS, but that could get complicated. What is the feed that you are using?

Did I understand your question correctly?
Yes you did, thank you. Yeah, I don't want to make it complicated but I want to attempt to created a small feed, insert it into a web page so the news RSS resource will constantly change throughout the day or week. The subject is biometric security.
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11-Jul-2006, 05:15 PM #13
So you are planning to create your own feed? Are you going to use a single source, or items from multiple sites or sources?

You could create a non-changing RSS feed using this, but it would take a very complicated script to automatically collect posts every day about biometric security and then combine them into an RSS feed (and unfortunately, I don't think there is any service that does this currently, but I'm still looking).

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Nevermind, I've found a way to do this:

Go to Google News and search for what you want to turn into an RSS feed (like Biometric Security).
Then, when viewing the search results, click on the "RSS" like under the navigation column. It will lead you to your custom RSS feed, like this:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=biometric+security&output=rss

Just copy the URL and use the same script I posted above to integrate that feed into the page. Then you can just customize the options, like how many items you want to display at once.

Hopefully that is what you are looking for.

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12-Jul-2006, 02:21 PM #14
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Hopefully that is what you are looking for.
Yeah, the idea is right on but I think it's going to take a lot of customization to really get the look. I tested the script out which works though there's a Google image that takes up some space to the right of the text. I'll be more than glad to post the resource of the feed and the resource for the script, it's just that the Google image is big. Plus, the text content is held within a table, I was looking to put just a strip of text with a link to the intended topic. Other than that, everything seems to work okay, it looks like it may take some tinkering with JavaScript and I don't really have any knowledge of. But thanks for your help.
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12-Jul-2006, 03:12 PM #15
Yeah, I didn't really think about that. You might want to just play around with the script options until you get a result that you like, hopefully you will find that something that will work.
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