Pulling specific news feeds from various sites

[MBony]

Is it possible to pull news from various sites and have them displayed on another site. And not all the news, but specific articles? I'm vaguely familiar with RSS feeds and think this might work, but the site would have to have a RSS feed. Obviously I know little about what I'm talking about so could anyone clear this up for me?

Thanks

 

[kamper]

I guess there's a couple of ways it could be done.

The most obvious to me would be to have something on your server side pull down the rss feed (which is just an xml document), parse it and spit the news out into your page. How you go about that depends entirely on what tools you're using.

Another way might be to write and xslt script and run it on the client against an rss feed. So the client's browser would be the one fetching the rss. Of course then you are putting much more significant restrictions on what's required to view your site...

Another thought, it seems somehow wrong to just pull news from another site and then slap it into your own without giving credit. I'm not suggesting you'd do that but I'm wondering if there's some sort of standard mechanism to let the provider know/obtain permission just to avoid any potential trouble.

 

[MBony]

Originally posted by: kamper
Another thought, it seems somehow wrong to just pull news from another site and then slap it into your own without giving credit. I'm not suggesting you'd do that but I'm wondering if there's some sort of standard mechanism to let the provider know/obtain permission just to avoid any potential trouble.

Thanks for your post. I am in no way wanting to take credit for other people's work. I would reference where the news was taken.