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Can FreshRSS Crawl? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I recently started up FreshRSS in my docker environment. I was super excited about the web scraping feature.

Now that I'm setting it up, it looks like that it is able to scrape single web pages, but I am unable to figure out how to get it to crawl into the actual article to scrape the full content.

Is anyone aware of how to do this. For example, runescape.com/m=news/ This page has a list of articles with a thumbnail, title, category, date, and a short description of the article. Would it be possible for FreshRSS to crawl into the article link and scrape the contents within?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you again :). From your explanation, I think I have a good grasp on how to identify the proper CSS elements now.

Have a wonderful day!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No problem! FreshRSS really is amazing so I'm happy to help and spread the love.