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  • I'm too lazy to learn SOAP, so I wrote a simple screen scraper that gets "http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?op=top" and looks at the by-date stuff, and notices whether there's anything new since the last time it ran.

    I should probably do it up in SOAP tho, since then it won't be fragile HTML-scraping.

    Aren't there already CPAN modules for talking to use.perl.org?

    • That gets the journal entries, but it doesn't find the replies. Especially on Monday, you can get replies to an entry that was made a few days ago, long after you read the original entry itself.

      • It'd be cool to have a way to "tag" an interesting journal entry (or articles in general) and receive messages whenever a comment is posted. Already, journal writers get a message for any comment posted, even replies to comments from other people. I think.

        So, the question is, does "tagging" scale? Obviously, on slashdot, it could shut the whole world down if you allowed it on any article in general; hmmm... given that most articles would be tagged toward the end of the initial furor, that might not be

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      • For the parent of the article to which I reply: the module in question is WWW::UsePerl::Journal.

        I'm slowly getting around to making some modifications so that it gets replies as well as the articles.

        The problem of making an emailer of journals is the replies - as jmm points out, they don't spring into life with the post to the journal, they accrete.

        So my journal mailer (available online [eh.org]) uses a modified version of WWW::UsePerl::Journal where the recentarray function returns the list of articles on page 2
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