[LUNI] Re: Pseudo RSS

[Martin Maney]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:27:13AM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> suggested.  The problem I'm having is that: While the page seems the
> same to the eye, there seems to be constantly changing content, some
> sort of IDs change with every page request.

I would say I told you so, but I didn't, I only thought it.  :-/

> Does anyone have a suggestion to address this?  (other than parsing
> the entire page and finding the message titles)

No, that's basically what you have to do, if you can't convince the
site to make the information more conveniently available.  You scrape
the info off the screen, find the bits you're interested in, and do
whatever it is you want to do with it.  A venerable trade of great
antiquity (predates the intertubes as we know 'em, that's prehistoric)
which, like mucking out stables, is not to everyone's taste.

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