I need to create a news aggregator for our application, something similar to reading AP News from Yahoo, or something like http://popurls.com/; the problem is that I don’t know how it works.
So, a couple of questions:
1) How do I determine what news site to aggregate? Do I hard-code the specific site’s url into the application?
2) How do I know the url of the specific news? It’s one thing to know the site name, but another to know the url of the specific news.
3) How do I embed the news content onto our application?
4) How do I determine (without specifically hard-coding everytime) the category(ies) each news should go?
Thank you very much for the help.
You can hardcode sites or request them from user (like iGoogle). After that you have to find the RSS url for the site and get the RSS for that site regularly (cron job can do it).