HeyO,
Been hacking around with newsclipper (Wintrial version) for
the last few days and have some new Qs that stump me, and
one old one that didn't get answered. As always, your
answers will be going into the GroundZero Guide if you wish.
1. I made a new handle, but it doesn't seem to work unless I
first upload it to the NC server. Is this true, or just my
mistake?
2. I made a sample handler for a resource (the Columbus
Dispatch, my hometown newspaper), but all the code is stuck
in a MakeHandler.inp file. When I finished
semi-automatically writing it at the last stage, I wasn't
prompted to save it as a *.pm file (after closing the final
notepad window). I had to save it by doing a "Save As..."
and defining the file as dispatchfront.pm . Solution to this
bug, or my error?
3. I took the sample trial.txt input file that comes with
the Wintrial version and both added to and replaced the
default yahootopstories AP filter that's in there with this
Sports filter I retrieved from the Readme file:
<!--newsclipper
<input name=yahootopstories source=sports>
<filter name=map filter=hash2string
format='%{url}: %{headline}'>>
<filter name=limit number=10>
<output name=array numcols=1>
-->
Both times, this gave me back ten results that looked like
this format, for example:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19990830/sp/bbo_umpires_suit_4.html:
Umpires Sue Baseball Again (on one line, no linking, all in
one column). However, doing this:
<!--newsclipper
<input name=yahootopstories source=sports>
-->
Gave me ten perfect results split into two columns, all
hyperlinked fine and ready to go. Where's the error in the
code? I hacked around with it but couldn't find it; duh.
Well, if you have any suggestions, thank you.
Chuck Heffner
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