RSS Reader

[Doc Thirst]

I'm putting together a site to cronical my beer making mishaps and I thought it might be cool to make use of some dynamic content. I would like to hit the major news outlets and do a keyword search for "beer, brewing, craftbrew, etc" then spit out linked headlines (if any exist).

I'm pretty new to the whole RSS thing so I thought I'd ask here and get off on the right track. Do you suggest I look for a packaged solution or script. Is this something I can (and should) write on my own? I know how XML works, and generally understand how feeds work, but I have little experience actually building code from XML docs. I'm open to any suggestions, and thanks for reading!

[ArthurKay]

The easiest route would be to use a blog... Blogger (and I'm sure other blog platforms) automatically create a feed for you, which you could then supply to other sites.

As I'm sure other platforms do, Blogger can FTP the content of your blog to your domain... so it appears as a static page on your site, but you also have access to the RSS feed (Atom or RSS formats).

You can import your entire site wrapper and CSS too... so everything is seamless.

[ArthurKay]

Did I misunderstand the post? Are you looking to write a feed, or place an existing feed into your website?

If the latter, there are plenty of RSS readers which can write content to your site. You could even write your own... the whole XML DOM concept is pretty easy.

[SyCo]

To design a bespoke RSS keyword filter would be possible but it wouldn't be easy. It would have to regularly parse your chosen watch pages and look for your key words and if found extract the headline from the HTML and store it with the URL and possibly the first few words of the article. A fun PHP project but a fair amount of work.

I did a quick google and saw this
http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/homebrew

with an RSS feed
http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/homebrew/rss

There might be others out there so maybe subscribe to existing RSS feeds. That would be way, way simplier. I suppose it depends if you want to simply provide some fun free content or learn a butt load of PHP skills and provide some fun free content to boot!

[Doc Thirst]

Thanks for the replies. I am looking for a reader, rather then publishing a feed. I don't mind the work, or feel I don't have the skill set, but I didn't want to reinvent the wheel if I didn't have to. I'll check out the links, thanks a bunch!

[TJ111]

Just doing a google search for "site rss reader" returns alot of wizards that you can use to create a RSS reader to include on your page. Just tell em what sites, what keywords, maybe some style info and thats it.

[Doc Thirst]

OK I believe I'm going to have to adjust my approach a bit. It seems there are several readers I can use to publish to my site. There are even several that hit many news outlets. However, I haven't found one yet that lets you filter keywords AND search several sites AND allows you to publish to a site AND is free. So I'm thinking I'll find a decent script that lets you hit multiple sites and publish to a site, then I can just mod it with a if preg_match statement and put my key words in there. Skipping those which don't have my search terms in them. Pitfalls?