[GreenKeys] AP "Top Stories" gone?

[Jordan Spencer Cunningham]

I haven't yet used Heavy Metal and can't test these feeds in it at the
moment, but I was able to dig up a list of Associated Press feeds in Atom
format that still seem to function, assuming Heavy Metal can parse
Atom-formatted feeds: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/116622

It seems AP doesn't advertise these feeds as I couldn't find any official
mention of them.

--Jordan

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Duncan Brown <duncanancy at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> 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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