icNews Acquire

Collects news from remote sites and stores them in a SQL database. These stored news can be accessed with RSS.

Project Description

icNews.AcQuire is a product that installs the AcQuire content type. The latter holds information on how to collect remote information. This configuration information is used by the acquire script that collects the information and stores it in an relational database. In order to use this product Regular Expression knowledge is required.

Funcionality

• From a URL and a regular expression can collect the information of a webpage and generate a RSS file from it.
  
• cron script for Unix systems that stores content in a relational database from a RSS list.
  
• inetd script for Unix systems that stores content in a relational database from the collected news.

Current Release

No stable release available yet.