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March 23, 2005

Yahoo! Web Services news over RSS

Excited by the prospect of a reasonably usable search API being made available by Yahoo!, I've put together a small project that will create an dynamic RSS 2.0 feed based on the Yahoo! News Search hooks.

The feed validates nicely, and also deals well with the tests created by Unpolluted; it has GZip handling, HTTP Expires, Last-Modified, ETag and If-None-Match support built-in.

The usage is very simple - point your aggregator of choice at http://undercrank.com/yahoo/rss/news/KEYWORD, replacing KEYWORD with your appropriate search term. Some examples are given below:

I'll release the source when I've tidied it up a bit so you can host it on your own boxes, but feel free to try it here for the time being.

More of the same RSS

Yahoo! Web Services news over Atom: aka: "When you realise Yahoo! already serve their news over RSS..."
Despamming Shortstat (Part 2): Further to my earlier post about Despamming Shortstat, I've made a small update to the code that has a few improvements on the original.

Importing CSV files to SQLite: "SQLite is different from most other SQL database engines in that its primary design goal is to be simple". Which isn't strictly true...
Despamming Shortstat: I've been using Shaun Inman's Shortstat package for a short while now as my main source of web statistics. However, it's fairly susceptible to the, er, 'innovation' known as referer spam - so here's some code that use's Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist master list to clean it up.

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Comments

tom sherman on March 24, 2005

Cool stuff, Mark.

Amit on March 25, 2005

How can i put yahoo/msn/google news related to the feild of design & Architecture and 3d animation on my blog? what code i have to add to my blog ?
Please tell me , i m Xml-Novice :)

tom sherman on March 25, 2005

Amit:

You could use Mark's tool to create an RSS file of a Yahoo search related to architecture or 3d animation. Then you could ingest and transform this RSS file using some of the built-in RSS tools of Movable Type or WordPress. But you need to be using those blogging tools first...

Michael Updegraff on June 4, 2005

Mark, do you have a release date on code?