Dan’s Blog

So as it turns out, I’m fully enamored with Google Reader, which allows me to read all sorts of RSS feeds. I waste time much more efficiently now. They’ve even got a version that’s optimized for your mobile device, so you can piss off your wife by reading blogs on your Blackberry.

The problem with feed readers, though, is that once you start using them, you stop reading blogs that don’t provide feeds. After realizing that I was falling behind on Heck’s Kitchen — which is hand coded, and therefore does not offer a feed — I realized that the best solution available was to write a screen scraper that would convert the static HTML page to RSS. Thankfully, Jenny writes good HTML and uses CSS classes and ids, so scraping the page was easy.

The fruits of my labor are here: Heck’s Kitchen RSS Feed.

Full script after the jump.
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