Can Anyone Help Me With This? I'm Totally STUCK!

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Basically I need to create a custom RSS feed similar to this site:

Example RSS Site

Here are the requirements from the site:

1.) Create a dedicated headline web page for our spider to visit

2.) Place on this page the headline-hyperlinks for all articles published, but ensure that the page references at least every article published within the last 24 hours but does not reference any article that is more than sixty days old.

3.) Make sure the hyperlink text is exactly the headline text. This is the text we will display on our site.

4.) Make sure the hyperlink URL links to precisely the web page containing the article in question.

5.) Don't place any other links on this page as we instruct our software to harvest everything and this would cause erroneous headlines to appear on our website.

6.) As this page will only be scanned by our spider and not viewed by the public, please remember not to include any graphics or other design elements. This would only increase the load on your servers and ours.

As an example, your dedicated headline page should look something like this:

<a href="/news/20061225/shoppers1.html">Shoppers go mad for presents at Christmas shock</a>
<a href="/news/20061225/eatfood2.html">People eat food at Christmas shock</a>
<a href="/news/20061226/rubbish1.html">Rubbish disposal problem on Boxing Day shock</a>


If anyone can help me make this type of page I would be extremely grateful!
#feed #rss #stuck #totally
  • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
    Like you said, it's just a basic RSS feed, but what type of site does it need to be created for?
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Brauer
    It's for a news site. And they have strict requirements of what the RSS feed should look like...
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    • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
      Originally Posted by prophetmktg View Post

      It's for a news site.
      I'll be more clear. Are you using a custom or and existing script like Wordpress to power the site?
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Actually, the example you gave is NOT an RSS feed...

    That's a "dedicated headlines webpage" as the website you are referring to, calls it.

    As they say: you need to have an rss feed OR an atom feed OR a dedicated headlines webpage...
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