[GreenKeys] AP "Top Stories" gone?

[Duncan Brown]

For the past 5-10 years, the AWA Museum has been entertaining our 
visitors by using the HeavyMetal v2.5 program to print out the 
Associated Press' Top Stories on a M15.  That service seems to have 
stopped in the past week or so. Have others noticed this?

I realize that the program is very dependent on the AP's "Top Stories" 
URL and if they change anything, you loose access.

Bill Buzbee's v2.5 README.txt file (31 Jul 08) explains the problem & 
how to find new URLs, but that doesn't seem to work anymore.

Does anyone know of a URL that will work for news? Something that can be 
put in the "Custom" Menu?  Or will it need processing by the program and 
thus needed to be changed in the Perl script and recompiled?

AP Top Stories is now at https://apnews.com.  Is there a better way to 
get this page as a text file without all the problems we have had with 
Bill's method? (I used Fortran in college, but I'm more of a hardware type.)

I am still using Heavy Metal 2.5 because I could never get V3.0 to work 
and v2.5 was still working OK for me.  Is V3.0 any better for changing 
URLs or being updated for these changes?


Thanks,

Duncan Brown, K2OEQ
USASA  31J30

Antique Wireless Association Museum Asst. Curator, Commercial Equipment
(also Chief TTY operator & repairman)
http://www.antiquewireless.org/


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