The following URL works for me with a depth of 2: http://www.wired.com/news_drop/palmpilot/index.html
-alan On 7/6/05, Plucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Alan Hoyle - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.alanhoyle.com/ "I don't want the world, I just want your half." -TMBG Get Horizontal, Play Ultimate. _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
