December 14th, 2004 |
by Derek |
published in
XML
The Media Drop has a list of newspapers with RSS feeds, although it’s heavy on college papers at the moment. I have some additions that I tried to submit via the comment form but it wasn’t working, so here they are: Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, Pa. Lexington Herald-Leader Tallahassee Democrat Wichita Eagle San Jose Mercury News [...]
October 8th, 2004 |
by Derek |
published in
Python, XML
The latest version of my Python script that scrapes the FEC’s press release page and creates an RSS feed fixes two previous errors, one big and one small.
October 2nd, 2004 |
by Derek |
published in
Python, XML
I’ve updated my Python script that creates an RSS feed by scraping the FEC’s page of news releases, due to a redesign of the FEC site.
September 2nd, 2004 |
by Derek |
published in
Car Tools, XML
Paul Ford has a new column on XML.com called “Hacking Congress” that aims to create an RDF description of the federal government. His first piece shows how to create an XML file of biographical information about U.S. Senators. Does creating a Semantic Web of data make it easier to analyze and explore that data in [...]
July 13th, 2004 |
by Derek |
published in
Python, XML
Just a small change to my script that makes an RSS feed from the Federal Election Commission’s releases: instead of grabbing just the press releases, it grabs the first 10 items from the entire “What’s New” section of the homepage.