Tony Gambone's post about adapting my Pitchfork RSS feeds to work with their Best New Music section inspired me to redo some of the feeds. Since I previously changed the reviews feed to include an actual description of the review with its rating (thanks to Chris Thacker for suggesting this), it made sense to change the news feed to include at least a snippet of the news item. While it took me entirely too long (more than a month!) to get down and rewrite the code, it is done now. The source code for all the Pitchfork feeds has been updated as well.
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I just updated the script and the source archive because there was a minor bug with the parsing of the first news item on the page. If you are tired of having to use bootleg screen-scraped feeds, I encourage you to contact Pitchfork and complain.
[...] Earlier this week, I modified the news feed I scrape from Pitchfork to include descriptions of articles. It worked for a day, and then broke when someone on the Pitchfork staff decided that paragraphs should be closed with <p> tags. As you can imagine, this seriously annoyed me, since it meant I had to tweak the code some more. [...]