Heise RSS feed

Posted by Nico Golde in
Tuesday, March 13. 2007

The famous German news site Heise is not able to provide a sane RSS feed for ages.
Well, http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf exists but it only provides the headlines, I guess the reason is the advertising on the site.

I knew about some heise2email script which puts the content of the site into an email and sends it to you but it was not working anymore and I am not a Perl programmer so I didn't want to debug it. I also wondere
d that there is no sane RSS feed for Heise yet (at least I didn't find one in 5 minutes).

I wrote a small shell script to provide a full-content RSS feed for Heise and here is the result (updates every 30 minutes):
UPDATE: I removed the URL until legal stuff is clear, write me a mail (signed) if you want the script

I haven't tested this very much so if you notice any problems with it (for example if heise changes their website there will be problems), something is broken or
you are from Heise and want me to shut down this service because of legal issues (hey I am not a lawyer) mail me at: heise+rssREMOVE@REMOVEngoldeREMOVE.REMOVEde

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Hey, just talk to me

I've done something similiar a while ago and for various sites (see link). I just send the short introductory text, though.

#1 blindcoder (Homepage) on 2007-03-13 16:01 (Reply)

Oh didn't know about this. Thanks but anyway, I want the whole content and had fun with using crappy shell programming once again

#2 nion on 2007-03-13 16:15 (Reply)

oh and plus you seem to have regular advertisment for donations in your script

#3 nion on 2007-03-13 16:17 (Reply)

yeah, once every other friday. it is a public service after all

#4 blindcoder on 2007-03-13 16:23 (Reply)

i like my feed better cause it has full content + no advertising. i am against donation calls in general with some excludes, the author is not able to do his normal job because of development, the money will help to create new features etc.

But c'mon donations for a quick hack in shell... NO

#5 nion on 2007-03-13 16:33 (Reply)

could you please publish the code, 'cause of the legal shit? if the shut you down, we could still run this on our own servers (or even the desktops)

i don't want to rewrite your script in case of legal trouble, so plz publish it.

#6 jojoo (Homepage) on 2007-03-13 16:54 (Reply)

I didn't publish it for two reasons:
- my shell coding skills suck so much that I don't want to publish it cause I guess the code is horrible
- if the Heise guys would know how I parse the website it's easy for them to alter it

But I can sent it to you if you write me a mail (please sign with gpg/pgp).

#7 nion on 2007-03-13 17:04 (Reply)

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