News Feed

[chuxs]

hi,
pls i need help. am building a web application that dynamically retrieves news from different sources e.g stock exchange news, headlines news etc and displays the title, description and a link to the site.

[PeOfEo]

RSS? maybe this will be of some use.

wait, never mind. You can grab html source code from other sites and parse through it, that would involve system.net.sockets, but you could always parse through their rss feeds, they most likely have them and that would be easier.

[chuxs]

thanx

[chuxs]

How do i grab html source code from other sites and display the information in my own site

[PeOfEo]

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/031903-1.aspx well that article can get remote rss, you specify a url, so I would imagine it would work with an rss feed from another site. You can parse through the html, but the problem is that would be a lot of stuff for the server to sift though and you would have to do it on page load for every visiter. It is not the most efficient way, an rss feed is organized xml so you can get data from it much easier.
c# - >http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ssw-aspnet.asp

here is how to parse remote html in c# though:
http://www.ftponline.com/xmlmag/2002...efault_pf.aspx
Ill keep my eyes peeled for vb.net example. I have seen it done before.

What language do you use?

[chuxs]

hi,

i use vb.net and am also embracing c#