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
completeExciteURLThe 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
- an id which is the title of the story
- a description containing the source and text of the story.
- the URL of the story.
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
- a quoted string(the URL)
- a title - the id
- story text (part of the description)
- a date (used as modification date of product)
- the source of the story (other part of the description)
First Available: Build 24
Revised: 12 January 1999