Grabbing content from another site?

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Hi Folks,
I’m fairly new to FW and have just joined the forums here. I’m working on a site that needs to have a “What’s New” text box that grabs its content from another site. Is there an easy way of doing this kind of dynamic updating?
Thanks in advance!

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I’m working on a site that needs to have a “What’s New” text box
that grabs its content from another site. Is there an easy way of
doing this kind of dynamic updating?

Heh. Sometimes a question slips past people…

I’ve recently started using Paul’s new Twitter action
(http://www.actionsworld.com/Actions/Twitter/index.php) to be able to
push text updates into a web page simply by tweeting. It isn’t
quite what you seem to be after, but I thought I’d mention it in
passing as it is very cool indeed.

Grabbing content from another site involves using scripts that strip
out unwanted stuff from some other page before slotting what’s left
into your own web page. Does anyone have some tips to offer? I’m in a
bit of a rush…

k

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Well, I don’t have any solutions that grab HTML from another site, but
if you want to re-publish another site’s RSS feed as HTML on your
site, you could try my ReadFeed Action, available on ActionsForge.

It is highly configurable, but not for the faint of code. The
configuration involves creating permanent tag-only styles and editing
printf-format code strings. Have a read of the directions on
ActionsForge and see if it’s for you. You’ll also need to check out
what the RSS options are at the site you want to read from.

Walter

On Oct 17, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Keith Martin wrote:

Grabbing content from another site involves using scripts that strip
out unwanted stuff from some other page before slotting what’s left
into your own web page. Does anyone have some tips to offer? I’m in
a bit of a rush…

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Thanks Walter and Keith for your replies. I’ll look into RSS Feed (though I’m certainly code-shy at this point…) I also found iFrame that looks promising.

Cheers,
John

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