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Hey FiReaNG3L, I've been scratching my head about this for a while. Over on eScienceNews, some of your news items are full stories. Some are just summaries.
by brandnewlow 18y ago
Hey FiReaNG3L, I've been scratching my head about this for a while. Over on eScienceNews, some of your news items are full stories. Some are just summaries. When I follow your source links below the full stories I find sites offering summary-only RSS feeds. How are you getting the full versions of those stories? Are you scraping the HTML from the feed item URL?
- FiReaNG3L 18y agoThe full versions are press releases we get from universities and the like. The summaries with links to full stories are copyrighted (or not, as some site editors do the same press release cut and paste as our automated service does).
- brandnewlow 18y agoWhat's the workflow look like on those releases? Do they e-mail them to you and get "sucked in?" Do they have a special feed? Do they fill in a form?
- FiReaNG3L 18y agoWe scrape them, and the universities and other organizations are pretty happy about it, we often get email saying thanks, links from professors and emails asking how much views they received, etc. These would get no exposure at all without sites like e! science news.