Best way to pull in news to my app. Theoretically.

1 points by ryanshaun 12 years ago | 2 comments

I'm thinking of making an app which pulls in various news items from different publishers.

The app would display a list of news items that are to do with education. so would pull from BBC education, guardian and various other sources I could find I deem good for the users.

Simply, whats the best way to the news items in terms, of speed, load and efficiency?

Maybe RSS, some sort of API?

Please excuse my lack of knowledge on this, I plan to know more in the near future with a bit of help.

FYI it will be an android mobile app

yaur 12 years ago |

RSS and ATOM. An API (if they provide one) is an option, but stay away from screen-scraping as it will make your solution brittle and put you on shakier legal ground.

j3andidier 12 years ago |

RSS is always a good first option. Also look into XPATH for sites without RSS or an API.