Feed for Paul Graham’s essays (with descriptions)
Mar 22nd, 2007 by Jonathan
As is obvious by now, I like Paul Graham’s essays 
So much so that I added the RSS feed indicated on his site to my news reader of choice.
I didn’t like the fact that it didn’t include a brief description of the article though, so decided to create one that did.
Took some educated guesses at pattern matching between the articles so I could generate the descriptions (You don’t make it easy though, Paul… as the HTML is quite sticky) and slapped together a PHP file to do the processing, and “Voila!”… an RSS feed with descriptions was created
You can get this feed by using this link:
http://word.lazyant.co.za/content/pgessays.php
This will give you a feed of the last 20 essays, with descriptions of 500 characters, in RSS 0.91 format. Optionally, you can add a format parameter with any of the following values: atom, js, rss20, rss10 or rss091 to receive the feed in your preferred format.
eg. http://word.lazyant.co.za/content/pgessays.php?format=rss20
