Blogging Roller: Oh yeah... that *is* better.

Oh yeah... that is better.

Who needs an HTML parsing linkback extractor, just grab the refering site's RSS feed and XML parse out the goodies. Very cool! Why didn't I think of that! Sam Ruby explains how to do it. What about sites that don't have an RSS feed and don't indicate it's presence via a link tag? They don't deserve a linkback!

Update: I was kidding, of course. Some of my favorite blogs do not have RSS Autodisovery. I agree with Bruce's earlier post, a linkback implementation should use a combination of HTML extraction and RSS parsing to get the refering post's permalink and excerpt.

Dave Johnson in Roller • 🕒 12:23PM Jan 14, 2003

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You know when I don't have access to roler at freeroller.net, I miss it.. That never happen when I demoed Radio or when Iwas posting using Manila.. Hopefully freeroller.net is up tommorrow.. Well at least I got another eyeMotion itv app build done :) on html links..if they do not have an rss feed you could stil parse out the html links except it would be messier regular expression code..

Posted by Fred Grott on January 15, 2003 at 01:12 AM EST #