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Amazon via RSS, in Perl

As previously mentioned, Sean Nolan has a very cool public Amazon RSS service, which he graciously supplies source for -- in ASP and XSLT.

I wanted to tweak a few things (remove the reviews from the description, give better feed titles for browsenode and authorsearch feeds (alas, only slightly better for browsenode), better links for the channel URL), but I don't have an ASP system, so I rewrote the scripts in perl.

If anybody's interested in tweaking further, the source is available under the same terms as Sean's original. You'll need perl, XML::Simple, LWP::Simple, XML::RSS and an Amazon developer's key; the URL arguments should be drop-in compatible with the original.

2003-06-29 09:08:00 | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) | Computers::Internet::Web::RSS