Hi!
I've recently developed a small script to fetch headlines from some news agencies. This script does not work by getting RSS feeds but by directly crawling targeted sites and extracting informations from them (in this way it is more customizable)
I was curious in its value (if I improve it by adding, for instance, many more news sources): how much $$ could I get from it? :)
And, if you think that nobody would like to buy it, would you think that putting up a "news search engine" would be a profitable business? :confused:

Thanks for help.
Cheers,

Originally posted by marco
Hi!
I've recently developed a small script to fetch headlines from some news agencies. This script does not work by getting RSS feeds but by directly crawling targeted sites and extracting informations from them (in this way it is more customizable)
I was curious in its value (if I improve it by adding, for instance, many more news sources): how much $$ could I get from it? :)
And, if you think that nobody would like to buy it, would you think that putting up a "news search engine" would be a profitable business? :confused:

Thanks for help.
Cheers,

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Why? Because there are thousands of scripts which do the same and are free!

Leaving apart the fact that I do not believe that a free software implies that there is no market for a similar but paid software (think to Windows & the tons of free - and even better IMHO - OS in the market today), I would like to ask if I could have a link or two to this scripts (I didn't find any on hotscripts.com)

I don't know of any software which works the way I explained (that is, by retrieving news and headlines from common news sites WITHOUT using RSS feeds which are not widely available), but I would be curious to see its source code if it is available (it acts more or less like a search engine bot)
Could you (or somebody else) please help? I would be happy.

Thanks in advance,

microsol is right, syndication scripts are easy to get these days.

I'm sorry, I'm probably misunderstanding the whole matter. Since I'm not practice with XML and with the use of RSS feeds what I wrote is a bot which crawls and looks for regexps on some sites. The whole result is like www.newsindex.com, which I don't think uses RSS feeds (in fact it seems to crawl sites which do not have public information on RSS exports)
Again, I may be wrong. Or almost every information site now exports feeds for public use? In that case I would agree: my bot would be completely useless.

Cheers,