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title: "i (heart) ficlets, microformats, and feed scrapers"
date: 2007-04-05T02:00:05-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2007/04/05/i-heart-ficlets-microformats-and-feed-scrapers/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [asides, xsl, microformats, scrapers]
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# i (heart) ficlets, microformats, and feed scrapers

I've really got to reiterate / call out a few points from [that last entry][tle]:

  * I ❤ [making feed scrapers][scrapers], although they're sometimes a pain.
  * I ❤ [Microformats][], for making scrapers easy.
  * I ❤ [Ficlets][] for using [Microformats][] and making it easy for me to use their [site as an API][siteapi] using just XSL and HTTP GET.
   
I'd love to see more sites like [Ficlets][].

[siteapi]: http://allinthehead.com/retro/301/can-your-website-be-your-api
[Ficlets]: http://ficlets.com/
[scrapers]: http://decafbad.com/blog/?s=scraper
[microformats]: http://microformats.org/
[tle]: http://decafbad.com/blog/2007/04/05/ficlets-enhanced-author-feed-an-xsl-scraper-hack

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            <div class="content"><p>Ficlets == best software name EVER (at least if you speak German)</p></div>
            
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