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+ Sitescooper is a perl script which you run on your Palm Computing
+handheld organizer's hotsync machine. It will retrieve news stories
+automatically from various news websites and convert them into Palm
+DOC, iSilo, RichReader or text format; in addition, it can now
+convert into any other format for which you have a conversion program
+that takes text or HTML input.
+
+ Multiple types of sites can be snarfed:
+
+ 1-level sites, where the text to be converted is all present on
+ one page, (such as Slashdot, Linux Weekly News, BluesNews,
+ NTKnow, Ars Technica);
+
+ 2-level sites, where the text to be converted is linked to from
+ a Table of Contents page (such as Wired News, BBC News, and I,
+ Cringely);
+
+ 3-level sites, where the text to be converted is linked to from
+ a Table of Contents page, which in turned is linked to from a
+ list of issues page (such as PalmPower or New Scientist).
+
+ In addition sites that post news as items on one big page, such as
+Slashdot, Ars Technica, and BluesNews, are supported using diff.