[asterisk-users] CRTC and FCC Feeds

[Alex Balashov]

What about this?

http://www.thefederalregister.com/rss/department/FEDERAL_COMMUNICATIONS_COMMISSION/

Shidan wrote:

> I don't understand why so many government sites fail to provide some
> sort of feed to their daily bulletins. What I am venting about in
> specific are the Canadian CRTC and FCC sites, every day I have to go
> to the website and when I reach the content, usually it isn't even
> HTML but a Word or PDF file. So finally today I decided to do
> something about it and wrote a little app that scrapes their daily
> releases and displays the information in blogger so I can just add the
> feeds to my reader.
> 
> The CRTC site specially dissapoints me because someone who developed
> the site had the common sense of using Dublin Core in the meta tags or
> are using a CMS which obviously makes it easy to make available
> machine readable content.
> 
> I wrote this system using Python, Beautiful Soup and Google's App.
> Engine, I will allow comments on both and if there is demand will
> switch to a PLIGG instance instead of blogger.
> 
> As a legal note, I make absolutely no claims or warranties that this
> application actually works or the following blogs display accurate
> data from the CRTC or FCC's site.
> 
> Here they are:
> 
> for the CRTC: http://crtc.gulfpearl.com
> for the FCC: http://fcc.gulfpearl.com
> 
> 
> ---
> Shidan Gouran
> shidan.gulfpearl.com
> 
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