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dpritchett on July 16, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Craigwatch Story

Looks like it was using XPath to parse the HTML: https://github.com/beaulm/craigwatch/blob/master/post.php

I imagine the 'selling' point was users not even having to know what RSS even means, let alone how to script it.

ErikRogneby on July 16, 2014 [–]

Thanks for the link. Time to try out Google app engine's PHP preview.

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