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RE: Plugin Idea: Web Services
But the problem's still the same: you gotta get the pages heavily parsed. It's possible, but you may need hours for only one billboard to work properly.
However the variety of websites makes it a tough work to parse that amount of information.
This somehow reminds me of vWatch, a project of which I'm co-manager, that does automatically get the latest versions of any apps from reading and interpreting the author's webpage on-the-fly. It was really difficult to make a system that got only one piece of data, like the version number. Imagine what it would be to parse much more information with the risk of existing a layout change in the website which screws up all the work.
If there was a well founded and reputated project where people would help to get the data parsed and outputted in standard language, namely XML, it would be definitely easier.
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