BSD Ports

net/sitescooper 2.2.8nb13 NetBSD

Retrieve stories from websites and convert to Palm readable format

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc
Maintainer
[email protected]
Categories
net, comms
Package size
148.2 KiB, 587.7 KiB installed

Description

Sitescooper is a perl script which you run on your Palm Computing handheld organizer's hotsync machine. It will retrieve news stories automatically from various news websites and convert them into Palm DOC, iSilo, RichReader or text format; in addition, it can now convert into any other format for which you have a conversion program that takes text or HTML input.

Multiple types of sites can be snarfed:

 1-level sites, where the text to be converted is all present on
 one page, (such as Slashdot, Linux Weekly News, BluesNews,
 NTKnow, Ars Technica);

 2-level sites, where the text to be converted is linked to from
 a Table of Contents page (such as Wired News, BBC News, and I,
 Cringely);

 3-level sites, where the text to be converted is linked to from
 a Table of Contents page, which in turned is linked to from a
 list of issues page (such as PalmPower or New Scientist).

In addition sites that post news as items on one big page, such as Slashdot, Ars Technica, and BluesNews, are supported using diff.

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install sitescooper

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/net/sitescooper && make install clean

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

RepositoryVersion
NetBSD 10.1 x86_642.2.8nb13
NetBSD 10.1 aarch642.2.8nb13
SmartOS / illumos x86_642.2.8nb13
macOS 15 arm642.2.8nb13

Dependencies

Run dependencies 3

No port depends on this one.