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Sitescooper is a perl script which you run on your Palm Computing
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handheld organizer's hotsync machine. It will retrieve news stories
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automatically from various news websites and convert them into Palm
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DOC, iSilo, RichReader or text format; in addition, it can now
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convert into any other format for which you have a conversion program
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that takes text or HTML input.
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Multiple types of sites can be snarfed:
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1-level sites, where the text to be converted is all present on
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one page, (such as Slashdot, Linux Weekly News, BluesNews,
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NTKnow, Ars Technica);
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2-level sites, where the text to be converted is linked to from
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a Table of Contents page (such as Wired News, BBC News, and I,
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Cringely);
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3-level sites, where the text to be converted is linked to from
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a Table of Contents page, which in turned is linked to from a
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list of issues page (such as PalmPower or New Scientist).
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In addition sites that post news as items on one big page, such as
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Slashdot, Ars Technica, and BluesNews, are supported using diff.
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