Input - getExciteNewstracker

 

Description

Goes out to an excite "new tracker" channel (from nt.excite.com) and captures all the stories. A sample Excite channel output is partially shown here. The web site at the time this was written had a web site address beginning with " http://nt.excite.com/". News tracker channels are different than the personalized channels.

 

Configuration Variables

completeExciteURL
The URL of the Excite news tracker channel - must have a host of nt.excite.com.

Product

Builds a VectorProduct who's id is the id of the channel and whos description is the description of this PIM. Every item in the product has

 

How it works

Tries up to three times to contact Excite. Attempts are separated by 1 minute.

Results are scanned looking for html <table border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 width=100%> tags indicating the beginning of a story. Each story contains

  

First Available: Build 24

Revised: 12 January 1999