For a variety of reasons I’ve been trying to find a simple way of converting plain HTML pages into RSS.
Does anyone know of a script that can do this?
It doesn’t matter which platform the script runs on, as long as it isn’t Apple Mac (as I dont’ have access to any)
Obviously I’d prefer if the script was linux based ie. php, perl or python, but I’m not adverse to using ASP if it does the job
Jan 22
HTML to RSS Conversion?
by Michele in Techie :: Techno ::
8 Responses to “HTML to RSS Conversion?”
From Kae Verens:
here is some code which I wrote for http://contemporaryliving.ie/ – see http://webmecms.org/common/funcs.blogs.phps
note that it’s not as straightforward as “html2rss($htmlurl)”, but it should hopefully help.
From michele:
Kae
Thanks.
So how do you call it?
From Kae Verens:
hehe – see that’s the thing – that’s a function that builds a webpage from a database entry, then converts that to RSS. You most likely do not use the same db schema, so the code will not be immediately useful to you. but – get one of your code monkeys to throw an eye over it and they’ll have something up and running in no time.
From michele:
Kae – code monkeys? Oh dear !! I’ll tell them
Not sure how they’ll like that though
As you rightly guessed I don’t have the content in a database.. It’s all plain old-fashioned HTML
Thanks anyway..
Michele
From Rob:
Assuming the HTML is fairly regular, it should be quite easy to write such a thing. Loop through pages, extract any metadata you want to use in the RSS, and you’re done.
From michele:
Rob – Since I am not a coder it would be like telling me that climbing Everest isn’t an issue
From Rob:
What’s the form of the HTML files? It might be literally a few lines.
From michele:
Rob – I’ve emailed you with a link to it
M