Google News CSS

jrahma

Hi,

Can you please see this link:

http://www.jassimrahma.com/

I am reading the Google News using SimpleXML

but the format is ruined! and I am unable to find the classes used in the Google News.

can anyone help please..

Thanks,

Weedpacket

Well, then, it sounds like you're doing something wrong. Whatever it is you're doing.

jrahma

this is what I am doing:

<?php	
	$url = "http://news.google.com/news/feeds?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&topic=tc&output=rss";

$feed = simplexml_load_file($url);

// echo $feed->channel->title, "<br><", $feed->channel->link, "><br><br>";

echo "<h1>Latest Technolgoy News</h1>";

foreach($feed->channel->item as $item)
{
	// echo "<a href='" . $item->link . "' target='_blank'>" . $item->title . "</a>";
	// echo "<br>";
	echo $item->description;
	echo "<br>";
}	
?>

Weedpacket

Well, there you go; you're looking at an RSS feed. RSS feeds don't have "classes"; the description is just a lump of text and is escaped accordingly.

Also, you aren't using the API Google provides for the task; you run the risk of Google treating your requests as "automated searches" (which would be correct) and blocking them. Which would be a reasonable thing to do, because you're violating their terms of service.

jrahma

then what's the way to do it please?

kredpl

You should check the following webpage: developers.google.com/news-search/v1/reference?csw=1

But remember that Google News API is deprecated since May 2011. It will continue to work, but the number of requests may be limited.