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2006-10-04 Caching News Site

After the ridiculous legal battle from CopiePresse, I made a very quick-and-dirty Python script to archive the latest article from a well known french-speaking news site in Belgium. The script is valid for any website providing an RSS/RDF feed. Here is an example containing the archived article. I don't know if a bot from a search engine company will crawl the archived articles ;-) I hope that the belgian press editors will come back to reality in the following weeks…