Rss Feed Aggregation
How do websites like Newsnow.co.uk categorise their RSS feeds into categories?
Newsnow.co.uk is a News Aggregation Website that breaks several different headlines into different sections, etc.
How do they do this?
They are using RSS feeds from newspapers, TV channels, etc. For example, they have a category for Hot Topics>Iraq>US Withdrawal. They are using several different RSS feeds, but how do they know which feeds to use?
Do they use some kind of RSS spider script or something?
Most sites like this use a Wordpress plugin that does all that for you. The feeds could possible have an XML childNode that contains the categories or keywords of the feed. It is also possible that each category is given a criteria and the serverside script that parses the request judges each by it’s content and categorizes it before sending.. For example, if the content or title contains the words “bank”, “money”,”financial” or some curreny signs more than a couple of times, it may categorize it as financial or banking news. (Which, yes, that would be a spider)
I would think the more likely is the simplest, which is that each feed has a keyword childNode.
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Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 10:12 am
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