-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Josh Williams wrote: > On 9/12/07, Erik Bolstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi! >> I'm doing a master thesis on online news at the University of Oslo, >> and need a software that can download html pages based on RSS feeds. >> >> I suspect that Wget could be modified to do this. >> >> - Do you know if there are any ways to get Wget to read RSS files and >> download new files every hour or so? >> - If not: Have you heard about software that can do this? >> >> I am very grateful for all help and tips. > > Wget does not do this. That would be a great feature, but I don't > believe parsing the RSS feed is Wget's job. Wget just fetches the > files. > > I recommend you look for a program that simply parses the RSS feed and > dumps the URLs to a file for Wget to fetch. Piping.. that's what UNIX > is all about ;-)
Might make a very interesting plugin, though, once we've added that functionality in "Wget 2.0". That won't be for quite some time, though. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG6b3v7M8hyUobTrERCNqQAJ91+Wsetv7LMoCdGrAN9txlQxbikwCfZp7L kRPNYcf7VPaW/QouNXVFEHc= =y81P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
