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Scrape the Times

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

A few years ago I wrote a little Perl script called ‘timesScraper’ that grabs the top stories from the New York Times’ RSS feeds. The idea was I could use it to download local copies of the day’s news for reading on my laptop when I was away from an internet connection.

More details and the download after the jump.
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