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SLASH: The Slashdot Code

The source code for the site is called "Slash". The Slashdot Like Automated Story-telling Homepage. We've set up a site, using Slash, devoted to the development and use of Slash. Check out Slashcode for all of your Slash needs. The latest patches, bugfixes, documentation, FAQs, and everything else will always be on Slashcode.

You can find a list of sites that use Slashcode on the Slashcode site list.

Importing of Slashdot Headlines

For those who don't know, you can get slashdot.rdf or slashdot.xml to receive a list of headlines for Slashdot. The document is fairly self explanatory, and the rules are simple:Do whatever you want, but don't access the file more than once every 30 minutes. The server is plenty bogged down without adding a hundred stock tickers refreshing themselves every 60 seconds. If your automated loading of slashdot becomes too much of a burden on our servers, you run the risk of having your IP banned, so play fair!

Programs that use the Ultramode
These programs are provided as-is. They aren't mine, so don't ask questions about them! Contact the authors of the programs instead...

  1. Ian Kluft has written WebFetch, a collection of perl scripts used to put the headlines on the SVLUG's homepage.
  2. Albert Strasheim has written WWW::Slashdot::Headlines, a perl module that snags headlines for easy usage in perl.
  3. Eric Andreychek has a Java Applet on his page.
  4. sdweb-0.1 was written by FnordBoy, and it allows you to display headlines on your own web pages pretty easily (assuming you can run perl and finger).
  5. Another Headline Grabber by Srijith.K
  6. A Perl Headline Grabber from Fred Fahnert 
  7. Gunnar Hellekson has a java news ticker as well.
  8. Gautam Guliani has an Avantgo slashdot Headline channel for Pilots.
  9. This Script by Don Rude snags headlines, and when combined with hacked root-tail, displays them to your desktop.
  10. Lee Kindness sent us a CSH alias that uses finger/awk to display headlines. Quite spiffy.
  11. Bernhard van Staveren has written This Perl Script which snags headlines, and formats them for SSI inclusion. You can witness it in action Over Here
  12. Here is Another Slashdot web page scripts by Dave Jacoby. You can get the source code Here.
  13. Here is a Headline Grabber written by Evan Felix
  14. Steve Kinzler wrote daily email shell script to send you yesterdays headlines.
  15. Here is another headline ripper written by Michael Samuel
  16. wxSlash is a nice little headline snarfer for desktop usage. It is by Caolan McNamara
  17. Samuel Wood modified Gunnar's Java headline ticker to create a Active Desktop Component for *cough* IE4 and IE5 users.
  18. Here is another headline ticker. this one by Alex Shnitman. Darxus has hacked in Speech Synthesis to Alex's code.
  19. Another Java Ticker was sent in by Ed Watkeys
  20. If you're interested in a headline grabber Written in PHP then say thanks to Veigar Freyr for writing it.
  21. Here is a ticker that plugs into AOLs tcl/tk IM client.
  22. KWebSlashdot is a perl script that sticks Slashdot headlines into your KDE root menu. By Carmelo PIccione
  23. defsquad sent us a A mIRC Script for headline slurping.
  24. SlashDotView is an XML viewer by Carmen
  25. Slasher is nice little app for viewing headlines, with a GNOME version and a Windows version, with a MacOS version coming soon. It comes from the great folks at ClearLogic, Inc.
  26. Here is yet another Headline Viewer, this one written by J-P.
  27. M@ has made a nice Perl script which parses Slashdot into an AvantGo channel, if you're into that sort of thing.
  28. If none of the previous AvantGo channels light your fire, then check out Ed Gatzke's page for instructions for how to make a different one.
  29. Sujal Shah has written a Slashdot headline viewer that generates WML. You can find it here.
  30. Rob Pengelly wrote a nice little headline grabber in PHP. You can grab it from his site.
  31. Heath C. Ice wrote yet another headline grabber in PHP. You can grab it from his website.
  32. If you're into Java and JavaServer Pages, you can find a Headline Reader at Sylistron's site.
There are others, but I don't have URLs handy. If you know of 'em, send 'em in. 
  Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers. -- Larry Wall in <199710071721.KAA19014@wall.org>
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