Re: WebCat for News Gathering
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texte = >>I am interested in posting selected news headlines to a page within my >>site. Can WebCatalog be used to do this type of thing? If anyone has >>any experience with this, I'd appreciate any information or direction you >>could provide. The TopicFinder at www.cnet.com is similar to what I'm >>talking about. >> >>Thanks, >>Brian WachterBrian-Although it is not expressly news headlines, this site is an example of what you are looking for. Look at our Search by Environmental Topic area. This is a test site, but it is a good example of what you are talking about.http://www.greenmarketplace.com/scripts/webcatalog/library/start.htmlHere's another question for the list... we have a client that would like to be able to go to another website, and pull the HTML headlines that are posted to a specific web page. Specifically, they only want the first X number of headlines (it must be able to be a variable) to be selected. We know how to do this using Perl, but were wondering if anyone had luck doing this sort of thing using WebCat. I have to assume that the TCPConnect command would be used somehow, but to be quite honest it doesn't seem to be that fast of an option (perl is still better).Any ideas?Josh Knauer http://www.knauer.com 412-420-6400 -phone 412-420-6404 -faxP60E7 A28B 91C0 E5D3 EC5C A53F DB28 B350
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>>I am interested in posting selected news headlines to a page within my >>site. Can WebCatalog be used to do this type of thing? If anyone has >>any experience with this, I'd appreciate any information or direction you >>could provide. The TopicFinder at www.cnet.com is similar to what I'm >>talking about. >> >>Thanks, >>Brian WachterBrian-Although it is not expressly news headlines, this site is an example of what you are looking for. Look at our Search by Environmental Topic area. This is a test site, but it is a good example of what you are talking about.http://www.greenmarketplace.com/scripts/webcatalog/library/start.htmlHere's another question for the list... we have a client that would like to be able to go to another website, and pull the HTML headlines that are posted to a specific web page. Specifically, they only want the first X number of headlines (it must be able to be a variable) to be selected. We know how to do this using Perl, but were wondering if anyone had luck doing this sort of thing using WebCat. I have to assume that the TCPConnect command would be used somehow, but to be quite honest it doesn't seem to be that fast of an option (perl is still better).Any ideas?Josh Knauer http://www.knauer.com 412-420-6400 -phone 412-420-6404 -faxP60E7 A28B 91C0 E5D3 EC5C A53F DB28 B350
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