RSS Scraping


You may notice some RSS scraping going on the right hand column.

It took me a few minutes to put the pieces together, but here is how it works.

I modified the Main Index for MovableType to have an MTInclude for a file.

The I pipe the output from a modified version of rss2html into the included file

That won't trigger a rebuild, so using the MT interface, I trigger a rebuild.

Since I don't want to do that be hand, I set it up in cron to happen once an hour. For now I scrape the CSM, SlashDot, and Todd's blog.

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