You can access the Top Stories RSS feed through NewsMob at http://www.newsmob.com/1syncchannel.php?id=1796 This is a Plucker friendly page.
There are also other Wired News RSS feeds on NewsMob here: http://www.newsmob.com/index.php?searchtext=wired+news&c=s It's true that this won't display the full story, but will probably display enough to let you know if you're interested in reading the whole story. It also displays the URL that you can use on your desktop. Check out the NewsMob Getting Started Guides at http://www.newsmob.com/start/index.php for how to use Plucker with NewsMob to get your favorite RSS feeds. - Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "David A. Desrosiers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Plucker General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 8:23 PM Subject: Re: Wired PDA version not updated any more ? > > > 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://gnu-designs.com > _______________________________________________ > plucker-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list > _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
