Article Source Settings
In this tab, we need to set The URL of Article List(Article Source) and Article URL matching rules
For example, we want to post content from “TechCrunch”,The URL of Article List is http://techcrunch.com
So we fill this url as following:
Then we need to set Article URL matching rules
Article URL matching rules
The setting is very simple and easy, no complicated settings
Offers two matching pattern, you can Use URL wildcards match pattern, you can also use CSS selectors to match, usually using URL wildcard match pattern is relatively simple, but sometimes it is more accurate to use CSS selectors.
1. Use URL wildcards match pattern
We can find the URL’s structure for each article in http://techcrunch.com are the following:
http://techcrunch.com/{year}/{month}/{day}/{some-words}/
Therefore, numbers or letters in the URL is replaced wildcard (*), such as:
http://techcrunch.com/(*)/(*)/(*)/(*)/
2. Use CSS Selector
Use CSS Selector we need to viewing the source code of http://techcrunch.com, Find the article URLs(HTML A tags) code area, as shown below:
You can see, article URLs(HTML A tags) is insde the element with class=”post-title”
So The Article URLs CSS Selector is set to .post-title a, as following:
Do not know what is CSS selectors, one minute to learn how to set CSS selector
After setup is complete, do not know the settings are correct, you can click the Test button, If the settings are correct, will be listed all articles and the corresponding urls: