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 ;-) I don't have any recommendations, unfortunately. If you aren't able to find one, let me know, and I'll try to come up with one. Josh
