: How to Syndicate Websites Without RSS? I have four websites that I am wanting to link to from one website. But the kicker here is that beyond just linking to the sites I was looking for

@Miguel251

I can think of 3 ways -
1) Google Spreadsheets' ImportHtml function can help you selectively scrape content from any website. You can then embed this spreadsheet data as a widget

2) Use YQL. Requires a little programming but the grunt work is simplified

3) Check this article on creating an RSS feed of any website without requiring software or having to write a single line of XML code. Using this method, you don't even have to be the owner of the site to create the feed.

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@Steve110

You could also email those websites and ask them to publish RSS feeds.

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@Sarah324

As mentioned above without RSS or any API you can tap into you will be forced to grab and parse those websites. You'll probably want to use a cron job to run your crawler on a predetermined basis. It should be no more more frequent then those sites are updated.

You should also verify that the other sites' owners do not object to have their websites scrapped. If nothing else it's good form to ask for permission to do so ahead of time.

See this answer for the beginnings of a PHP based solution.

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@XinRu657

if they don't support RSS, your best is probably writing a script that can parse the HTML from these pages, and get the relevant content.

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