themightydude
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Crawl webpages and email content
My background is in server virtualization so unfortunately this topic is a bit foreign to me. What I'm trying to accomplish, is to essentially aggregate news articles from various websites such as foxnews, cnn, bizjournals.com, etc, and then email the text of those articles to an email address.
I just want to grab new articles from sites like the ones I listed above, Get the text of the article, then email it.
I've done some googling but I'm not sure exactly which technology I should be looking at here. Preferably something that has examples I can base my code off of. This isn't for any business, but just for a personal project of mine. If there is already a program out there that can do this, I don't mind paying for it.
It looks like I may be able to use API calls to accommodate this, but again this is all new to me. Just looking for some pointers in the right directions in programming languages to look at to handle this.
I just want to grab new articles from sites like the ones I listed above, Get the text of the article, then email it.
I've done some googling but I'm not sure exactly which technology I should be looking at here. Preferably something that has examples I can base my code off of. This isn't for any business, but just for a personal project of mine. If there is already a program out there that can do this, I don't mind paying for it.
It looks like I may be able to use API calls to accommodate this, but again this is all new to me. Just looking for some pointers in the right directions in programming languages to look at to handle this.
If those websites have RSS feeds you can combine them with
http://www.rssmix.com/
After that, you can email it with one of these
https://blogtrottr.com/
https://ifttt.com/applets/147561p-rss-feed-to-email
http://www.rssmix.com/
After that, you can email it with one of these
https://blogtrottr.com/
https://ifttt.com/applets/147561p-rss-feed-to-email
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Thanks Shaun.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it looks like the rss feeds just give you a brief description of the article or the first few lines then give you a link to continue reading. I'm trying to get the full text of the article. Any pointers on how to get the full text of it so it can be emailed?
Basically the reason behind all this is I have a friend that I'm trying to email news articles too that they can read from the email as web access is difficult where they are.
Any pointers on the above?
Thank you
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it looks like the rss feeds just give you a brief description of the article or the first few lines then give you a link to continue reading. I'm trying to get the full text of the article. Any pointers on how to get the full text of it so it can be emailed?
Basically the reason behind all this is I have a friend that I'm trying to email news articles too that they can read from the email as web access is difficult where they are.
Any pointers on the above?
Thank you
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