Unleash the (chow)hounds!!

I love chowhound. It has helped me find lots good grub back in New York City and is now serving me well in Los Angeles. However, it is truly the site that time forgot. Their guestbook.cgi style messageboard system is clearly busting at the seams — the message index of the Los Angeles board weighs in at a gluttonous 4.5MB download! It makes it very difficult to even load the page, not to mention trying to participate in the discussion.

To help myself keep up on all the good posts to chowhound, I created a script to scrape and publish RSS feeds of the new posts from the various chowhound message boards. I’m running these feeds through FeedBurner so anyone can subscribe to them:

• Chowhound Manhattan
• Chowhound Los Angeles

If anyone wants more feeds for the other message boards, please let me know.

Post Resources:

• unleash.pl
• losangeles.ini
• manhattan.ini

posted by steve at 3:51 pm & filed under code |