We need help building a library of RSS feeds, publications (New York Times, Washington Post, etc), and topics (politics, sports, etc). We have a large spreadsheet that currently contains ~600 RSS feeds, ~200 sources and ~40 topics.
Right now, only about half the sources have corresponding RSS feeds. We need someone to go through the sources and track down as many topic-specific RSS feeds as they can find for each one. For instance, ESPN is a source that currently has no RSS feeds; we'd like to find category-specific ESPN RSS feeds (e.g., one for NBA, one for NFL, etc) and tie them to the ESPN source and the topics that make sense (Sports and Basketball for NBA, Sports and Football for NFL, etc).
Category-specific RSS feeds can usually be found by exploring the HTML of news websites, finding an RSS feed URL, and then examining the URL structure to find other potential feeds. For instance, checking the source of theverge.com reveals the RSS URL https://www.theverge.com/rss/front-page/index.xml. By checking the categories visible in the navigation on theverge.com, we can infer other category-specific RSS feeds like this one for the Space topic: https://www.theverge.com/rss/space/index.xml.
We'd also like you to go through the existing sources that do have feeds and see if there are more category-specific RSS feeds to be found. Our goal is to get to 1000 RSS feeds, 300 sources, and 50 topics, with at least one feed per source and ten feeds per topic.
Posted On: January 10, 2020 19:05 UTC
Skills: Critical Thinking, Information Literacy, Research, Data Entry, Internet Research, HTML Country: United States
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2924212
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, Critical Thinking, Information Literacy, Research, Data Entry, Internet Research, HTML
