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sbisson ([personal profile] sbisson) wrote2002-06-20 02:34 pm

Now this is neat: turning Google searches into a RSS feed

http://www.razorsoft.net/weblog/stories/2002/04/13/google2rss.html

It's a .NET application that can be used to regularly run a search, and expose it as RSS. This is an excellent example of showing how the two basic web service models can cooperate. The query is run through a SOAP RPC call, and then output as a published RSS document, that any site can subscribe to using an RSS aggregator.

Er Yes

[identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com 2002-06-20 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Shame about the .Net though. I think I tried this a few weeks ago with perl....
They limit us to 20 queries per day don't they...

Re: Er Yes

[identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com 2002-06-21 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
Nowt wrong with .NET.

Especially with the ActiveState Visual Perl loaded. And (happily annoying the Slashdot branch of the Linux Taliban) MS are doing the right thing and giving the framework away, along with free dev tools. They've even opened up the source using their shared source license, with a BSD implementation.

(Hmmm... A Darwin port shouldn't be too difficult...)