snipscrape

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For the impatient:  
[Download snipscrape 0.2](snipscrape-0.2.tar.gz)  
[View snipscrape.xslt](snipscrape.xslt)  
[SnipSnap web site](http://snipsnap.org/)

Snipscrape is a screen scraper for [SnipSnap](http://snipsnap.org/). It enables
you to import pages from one SnipSnap site into another, or to recover content
from SnipSnap-generated HTML pages. It does this by transforming HTML pages
generated by SnipSnap into XML that can be imported.

Snipscrape is implemented in XSLT, and comes with a shell script for \*nix
platforms that does some useful preprocessing. You can use snipscrape without
the shell script, but you'll need to perform a few tasks by hand, such as
escaping special characters.

Assuming you'd like to scrape two pages, snip1.html and snip2.html, here's what
you'd do:

    $ snipscrape.sh snip1.html snip2.html > snips.xml

Now, go to the manager page in your SnipSnap, import snips.xml, and you should
be set!

P.S. Thanks to Paul Brown for his article
[Migrating Radio to SnipSnap](http://mult.ifario.us/p/migrating-radio-to-snipsnap).