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diff --git a/net/sitescooper/DESCR b/net/sitescooper/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..047c710f85e --- /dev/null +++ b/net/sitescooper/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ + 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. |