The Wired News PDA page isn't updated any more, it's stuck on June
30th. Looks as if Wired is giving up the news via PDA...
They've relocated their page into one that is accessible only
via AvantGo clients:
http://pshost.avantgo.net/channels/wired/
I played around with the rss feed, but it's not much use. The rss
doesn't point to the print versions of the articles, but to the web
versions (graphical overload, articles broken down in several pages,
etc.).
Just mark it off of your list for now... its not worth it
trying to spend hours writing a parser to strip out all of the
unnecessary page parts to get to the stories, or creating a custom SDL
or set of screen-scraping scripts to walk through the content. Doing
that for every site that locks down is just too much of a hassle.
Sunrise (the proprietary desktop app that can produce basic
Plucker documents), is reported to allow you to do the same sort of
parsing that projects like Sitescooper[1] do, but it tries to point to
the print-only portions of websites. Its too fragile when websites
change their layout frequently.
You could convert the rss to Plucker (as I've done[2] here for
you), but the problem here (which is the same with ALL rss feeds), is
that there is no "mobile" version behind the rss feed link, so you end
up wasting lots of space in the .pdb file for content you don't care
to read, because you get copies of the "full" page articles anyway.
It can be done, but its a hassle. The best route is to
convince Wired (and other content providers) that locking users out
isn't the best way to convince people to subscribe to your services.
[1] http://sitescooper.org/
[2] http://code.plkr.org/Wired_News_ducembarr.pdb
David A. Desrosiers
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http://gnu-designs.com
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