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Archive News Homepage

  • Tom Loosemore

Grab a copy of bbc.co.uk/news every 5 mins, do a diff, then save the index if there's been a change.

Allow navigation by a YYYYMMDDHHMM-based url structure. Return nearest version of News homapage.

  • 08 Feb 2005 05:23 PM

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  • On 13 May 2005 12:32 AM,
  • Alan said:

...and something that I've been working on is a way of archiving RSS. In terms of the BBC News - archiving an RSS feed is rather like having a newspaper - although news comes in every minute of every day(TM?) the actual newspaper is a snapshot fixed at a particular moment. And so archiving an RSS feed would be the same.
It's funny - when a friend of mine suggested something similar I laughed... but then I thought about it. I mean why would you archive RSS, fixing it as a snapshot... never to change. Ah yes, I then thought, but what about RSS 2.0 + Enclosures... hmmm.

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