Getting a list of the day's headlines?

[jonpeter]

So I'm basically a newborn web-developer/designer.

I was wondering if there is a way to get a list of all the day's headlines (pure article title) in a list format (say from a site such as macrumors or engadget)?

Also.
Way to take a selected title and then "expand" the article as though looking at the article without going to the actual site?

Thanks!

 

[Dunmail]

For your first request, I'd look at something like SimplePie which is a PHP library that scrapes RSS feeds. Obviously this relies on your source having an RSS feed but most of the major news channels do. Since this is a PHP option, it's run server side. I have used Yahoo Pipes to do a similar thing on the client side but I'm not sure if it's still in active development - it still works. One advantage Pipes has over RSS is that you can scrape any page to get what you want.

The only way I can think of (having just risen here in the UK) is if the site(s) offer an API through which you could get the article using AJAX