This is an update (v3.4) to the CNN Breaking News script that has been around here on the boards since sometime in 2001. The main credit for this effort go to th the original authors, "xplosiv" (Dan) and "paugusto" (Paul Augusto). The main changes from their last release:
The changes in v3.4 (26-May-2010):
Post any issues or requests in the discussion thread: http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=138929
Steve
- Translation from VBScript to mostly pure VB.NET
- Attempts to avoid repeating the same news
- Replaced use of hs.GetUrl() with .NET HttpWebRequest
- Allow for no argument to Main() script routine
The changes in v3.4 (26-May-2010):
- Took out some leftover stuff I had put in for my own LED-sign stuff.
- Changed the news extraction to simply strip out all the HTML.
Post any issues or requests in the discussion thread: http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=138929
Steve
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