Haaretz RSS is Fixed...Sort Of

Since I was tired of trying to figure out why the screen-scraping code refuses to work properly on this server, I made a semi-elaborate workaround. A shell script on this server calls a number of perl scripts on the FAS server, which does the "hard" work of scraping the Haaretz site. After this is finished, the shell script copies the RSS files from the FAS server to this server.

Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 4:36. Tagged Israel Palestine, RSS

Comments

At 7:19 on February 8, 2005, Starman wrote:

Your Haaretz Editorial & Op Ed feed works for me, but not the News feed. I'm using Mozilla Firefox.

At 9:40 on February 8, 2005, Martey wrote:

I am not sure what was wrong before, but the News feed should work now.

At 4:12 on July 29, 2005, MarteyDodoo.com wrote:

Haaretz RSS is Broken (Again) 

The Haaretz RSS feeds give me the most trouble out of all of my RSS feeds. They have not been working for the last few weeks, since Haaretz implemented site registration. While it occurs to me that I suggested such a move (oops), it makes generating R...

At 10:56 on October 25, 2005, MarteyDodoo.com wrote:

Deprecation! 

Official RSS feeds from the Harvard Crimson and Haaretz means an end to screen-scraping.

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