I mentioned last post that ten stories were added to Folklore.org’s hidden Newton section. Well, since then, another one has been added. I’m kind of annoyed by the fact that the feed for that section still doesn’t work, so I need to remember to go the index myself to check for new stories.
So, I made a feed.
http://quiteajolt.com/projects/newton/newton.xml
It’s an Atom feed, updated at the top of the hour (assuming there’s an update), containing the ten most recently added stories. I haven’t really put the generator through its paces, so it’s probably pretty flaky, but I’m subscribed to it myself, so hopefully I’ll notice if something goes awry. Enjoy it until Folklore.org’s actual feed is operational.
If you’re interested in the implementation details, the scraper is written in Python and uses Beautiful Soup to parse the page and PyFeed to generate the XML. You can view the code itself at http://quiteajolt.com/projects/newton/makeRSS.txt.
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