News Clipper

Allows web designers to automatically integrate dynamic information from the Internet into their web pages News Clipper allows individual users to create custom newspapers, or businesses to enliven otherwise static web pages.

It accomplishes this by snipping content from pages that you define and shipping them to destination pages of your design. This automated process is executed at your discretion while you maintain complete control over the content input and output.

News Clipper's tag language gives users control of data acquisition, manipulation, and presentation, and can be extended by writing new "handlers".

News Clipper operates as an off-line pre-processor for HTML files, running as a cron job in the background to keep web pages up-to-date, but not causing delays in page downloads.

Here are some key features of "News Clipper":

Web designers can liven up their web pages by adding dynamic content like headlines, stock quotes, and daily factoids.

News Clipper can be used to retrieve information from web pages, Usenet articles, text files on the internet, FTP sites, etc.

Network load minimization -- information is cached locally and downloaded when the remote content is expected to change

Multiple user support

Powerful customization ability lets you control the appearance and placement of acquired data.

Flexible "handler" architecture allows easy extension to new information sources.

Instant access to over 200 news and data sources.

Support for news published in RDF format provides access to 200 more news sources.

Automatic download of missing, updated or new handlers.

Can be easily extended to new news and data sources with the included "MakeHandler" program.

Handles unresponsive web servers intuitively and gracefully.

News Clipper can be used to retrieve information from web pages, Usenet articles, text files on the internet, FTP sites.

Retrieve news headlines published in XML using Netscape's RDF format. Hundreds of feeds are available with this ability alone.

You may choose to extend News Clipper to include information stored locally, enabling an intranet integration of an enterprise's own database of information.

Home users of News Clipper can create their own customized "newspapers" instead of visiting numerous sites every day.

Web designers can liven up their web pages by adding dynamic content like headlines, stock quotes, and daily factoids.

News Clipper operates off-line, which means faster page loads because the content isn't generated on-the-fly.

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News Clipper