News Clipper Open Source

This is the News Clipper development webpage. It contains information for acquiring, experimenting with, and modifying developmental versions of the source code. Non-technical users are referred to the News Clipper commercial website, where the commercial version is sold. The commercial version includes a user's manual, pre-compiled binaries, streamlined installation, and priority technical support.

News Clipper allows web designers to automatically integrate dynamic information from the Internet into their own web pages. It allows individual users to create custom newspapers, or businesses to enliven otherwise static web pages. Its tag language gives users control of data acquisition, manipulation, and presentation, and can be extended by writing new "handlers".

News Clipper operates as an off-line pre-processor for HTML files, running as a cron job in the background to keep web pages up-to-date, but not causing delays in page downloads. Web developers insert content in a particular style by using News Clipper commands like this:

<!-- newsclipper
  <input name=slashdot type=articles>
  <filter name=slashdot type=LinksAndText>
  <filter name=limit number=2>
  <filter name=map filter=limit number=200 chars>
  <output name=array numcols=1 prefix="<p>--&gt;" suffix="</p>">
-->

which generate output like this:

Features:

• Web designers can liven up their web pages by adding dynamic content like headlines, stock quotes, and daily factoids.
• News Clipper can be used to retrieve information from web pages, Usenet articles, text files on the internet, FTP sites, etc.
• Network load minimization -- information is cached locally and downloaded when the remote content is expected to change
• Multiple user support
• Powerful customization ability lets you control the appearance and placement of acquired data.
• Flexible "handler" architecture allows easy extension to new information sources.
• Instant access to over 200 news and data sources. (See the handler database.)
• Support for news published in RDF format provides access to 200 more news sources. (See XMLTree for a catalog.)
• Automatic download of missing, updated or new handlers.
• Can be easily extended to new  news and data sources with the included "MakeHandler" program.
• Handles unresponsive web servers intuitively and gracefully.

Links:

• Download most recent version (1.32)
• The handler database, the handler submission service, and tutorial (long) on writing handlers.
• Change log
• Get the code via CVS
• FAQ
• New release notification: Visit the newsclipper-os-announce list at SourceForge
• The user's mailing list:
• To subscribe: send an email with the body "subscribe newsclipperlist" to majordomo@NewsClipper.com
• To unsubscribe: send an email with the body "unsubscribe newsclipperlist" to majordomo@NewsClipper.com
• The archive is here.
• The developer's mailing list:
• To subscribe: send an email with the body "subscribe newsclipperdevlist" to majordomo@NewsClipper.com
• To unsubscribe: send an email with the body "unsubscribe newsclipperdevlist" to majordomo@NewsClipper.com
• The archive is here.
• Report a bug, or submit a patch
• See the TODO list
• SourceForge project page for News Clipper

Author and Maintainer:

David Coppit <dcoppit@newsclipper.com>

Thanks to SourceForge.net for the project hosting and management.