I wrote a post on some XPath magic for all you evil scrapers out there. Now I will show you how to scrape RSS feeds. I used to do it the RegExp way but now I decided to head over to XML parsing and DOM processing. Lazy enough I decided to look for an already made version and found a quite good one actually. Close to my needs but not exactly. I took it, used and abused the source (ended up changing almost completely), and achieved the one I needed. The good thing about the RSS Scraper using DOM XML + PHP is that it's way shorter and much more reliable than the RegExp version.
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