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Re: make rss from search results

Roy Schestowitz schreef:

> __/ [ Fikkie ] on Tuesday 29 August 2006 15:33 \__
>
> >
> > Roy Schestowitz schreef:
> >
> >> __/ [ Fikkie ] on Tuesday 29 August 2006 12:00 \__
> >>
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > I want to make xml's of my search results like msn does.
> >> >
> >> > Anyone some tips?
> >>
> >> How do you generate your search result?. Any system that is used for this?
> >> For what it's worth, Google and Yahoo deliver search results for news as
> >> RSS, but abstain from doing this for regular searches (bandwidth and abuse
> >> probably being the main concern). There are third-party services, however,
> >> that scrape Google results pages and deliver them as well. You could also
> >> check for changes by getting plain HTML, but it's merely a workaround.
> >> Anyway, what it boils down to is: what is it that gives search results
> >> output? By modifying the output format, you can make it XML (RSS).
> >> WordPress, for example, has this capability built in. It uses the MySQL
> >> search function to slice through the data for matches, which is probably
> >> not the ideal type of search to perform...
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >>
> >> Roy
> >>
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> >
> > perl script called by a php script(FDSE)
> >
> > I don't think it's easy to return the results as xml and then still
> > being able to integrate this results while maintaining the
> > functionality of the search script.
> >
> > I'm thinking on integrating xml tags in the results page and then ...?
>
> Have you looked at MagPie RSS (Sourceforge project) or its siblings? There
> may be place for reuse or conversion, but it sounds as though editing Perl
> is needed. And while it's not too hard to write Perl, understanding it and
> modifying it (second-hand) can be hard. Consider hiring John Bokma maybe...?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy

Hiring JB?
1) i like to do things myself, i love learning new things
2) i don't think i have the appropiate budget to hire him :-)

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