Tag Archives: scrapers

i (heart) ficlets, microformats, and feed scrapers

April 5, 2007 – 2:00 am

I’ve really got to reiterate / call out a few points from that last entry: I ❤ making feed scrapers, although they’re sometimes a pain. I ❤ Microformats, for making scrapers easy. I ❤ Ficlets for using Microformats and making it easy for me to use their site as an API using just XSL and HTTP GET. I’d love [...]

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Ficlets enhanced author feed, an XSL scraper hack

April 5, 2007 – 1:37 am

I’ve been trying to get myself serious about writing and even set up a personal slush pile for my output. Then, I found Ficlets, and spewed a few quick starter stories there. And then… I stopped. I’m hoping to pick it up again very soon, but I guess that’s the nature of [...]

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