NAME

scrape2rss.pl - extract information as RSS (well, Atom) feed

ABSTRACT

This is a simple program to extract data from HTML by specifying CSS3 or XPath selectors.

SYNOPSIS

scrape2rss.pl URL OPTIONS

scrape2rss.pl
    http://conferences.yapceurope.org/gpw2011/news
    --feed-title "GPW 2011 Atom Feed"
    --title "h3 a"
    --summary "h3+p+p"
    --permalink "h3 a@href"
    --date "h3+p em"
    --date-fmt "%d/%m/%y %H:%M"
    -o gpw2011.de.atom 

DESCRIPTION

This program fetches an HTML page and creates an RSS feed from it. The elements that are turned into the RSS feed are specified as CSS or XPath selectors.

If the URL is -, input will be read from STDIN.

OPTIONS

--title

Selector for the entry title

--summary

Selector for the entry summary

--permalink

Selector for the entry permalink

--pages

Selector for the pagination links to follow

--date

Selector for the entry publication date

--date-fmt

sprintf format that the entry publication date is in for conversion into a proper Atom timestamp

--outfile

Name of the output file

Default is STDOUT

--debug

Output information in clear text

REPOSITORY

The public repository of this module is http://github.com/Corion/App-scrape.

SUPPORT

The public support forum of this program is http://perlmonks.org/.

AUTHOR

Max Maischein corion@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT (c)

Copyright 2011-2011 by Max Maischein corion@cpan.org.

LICENSE

This module is released under the same terms as Perl itself.