ANN: Anandtech Forums RSS Feed (i.e. "Offline" Viewing)

[BatmanNate]

Bump with some questions:

How (ie what server) do you use for the trillian plugin to do ATOT?

How do you refresh it?

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
What are you using to parse the forums into rss?

A C# class library with a simple ASP.NET frontend that delegates the catid chosen to the class library. I use the following regular expression to extrapolate the topics:

< *a +href *= *\"(messageview[^\"]+)\" class *= *\"ftalternatingbarlinksmall\" *>([^>]+)< */ *a *>

Not really optimized, but it matched correctly in all my tests. I then iterate through all the matches in the HTML and emit the appropriate XML tags for the RSS feed...

Hmm, I'm sure Notfred will be along shortly to tell you the folly of your "incorrect code."

He'll reduce to "C:update"

I'll bet you $1000 that notfred will not post in this thread.

 

[BatmanNate]

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