Exercise #3: RSS
Create an application, in any programming language, that is capable of reading from any web news feed. For example of some locations to stream from, look at http://www.cnn.com/services/rss/ for a list of CNN's rss feeds.
- Stream headlines and brief descriptions about each headline. Extract these into your preferred format or location (SAS dataset, Excel format, JSON, SQL database, or other), with no HTML tags.
- This process should run every 10 minutes.
- The next time the application runs, it should append new information to the existing data.
- Split the description information into multiple columns of length no greater than 100 characters. Do not truncate in the middle of a word.
- Allow surfacing of these results in a basic webpage front end.