Deep Linking?

Hey fella techies I am looking for some help on getting together a aggregator site. Something that would link into other sites pulling various stories in and update itself as and when the source does. some what on the lines of google news but with way less links..probably 10-15 initially. any tips?

Are you talking RSS? Or getting live content from sites that don't support it? Or just summaries of what they say?

Yeah please clearify. Your question is quite confusing.

Yeah... way to vague for what sounds like a huge project.

Apologies! for not being specific. Okay what I am looking at is basically providing links to some travelogues and linking to stories (html files) there. And no, most of the target sites do not support RSS. These are plain jane html sites.

The 'target' pages do not exactly host live content updated by the minute but rather manually updated once in a while. Here are some examples of the stories I plan to link to -

http://www.geocities.com/jamiehide/travelogues.htm
http://www.bsmotoring.com/bsm/wcms/e...vel/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/bhuniahoo/index.html


I was wondering how to make links into these pages along with a small description of the content (the first few sentences perhaps).

I just need links+summary on my page and don't want the content itself to be displayed here to avoid copyright issues. I could set up links manually but I was wondering if there was a solution when the volume of data increases.

Hope all this helps

Hm. You could use PHP to to access the sites and gather the content and format it to your liking, but it would be a pain. There's really no easy way to do something like that.

what you can do is just link to the page but then you make the people find it.

what SSL are you using vikram?

Wow, that is going to be one really long and fun project...woah!!

Hmm..that doesn't sound too good.
snow, i am not sure about the SSL ver no you had asked abt.

SSL = Server Side Language. PHP or ASP?

Ah! SSL would be PHP but then I am not very familiar coding in it.

Me either I'm afraid... with Java you can put in a site's URL and rip out the page - after that I'm sure it wouldn't be so bad to parse it for the information you needed... but I'm not sure if you can do the same with PHP? Or if this would provide enough functionallity for you?

All the best - and I hope all these PHP gurus can help you!

Snow

hey snow..well actually linking and ripping the page is precisely my aim. is it possible to get java code for this function? can you point me to resources pls?

PHP would be a much better solution.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php