[chemweb] Chemical RSS feeds

Ivan Tubert-Brohman ivan.tubert-brohman at yale.edu
Thu Oct 2 20:56:43 BST 2003


Dear Chemweb,

Thanks to Henry, I'm getting interested in the applications of RSS in 
chemistry. It is sad that the chemistry societies don't make use of this 
technology. Therefore I decided to try and "scrape" the content alert 
emails that I get from ACS and convert them to RSS. It's still a proof 
of concept, but you can find them at http://ivan.tubert.org/rss/ .

I know scraping is never a permanent solution, but sometimes it is 
surprising how fast a vendor decides to provide a service when they see 
how people are willing to go around them and do it on their own.

At least it will be useful for me, because I'll be able to aggregate it 
with other sources of interest. If you think it's useful feel free to 
use it. I may add more journals later.

Best regards,
  Ivan






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