Kapow Robots

Friday, August 8, 2008

RSS RobotThis robot creates an Atom or RSS feed, outputs data in Atom 1.0 and RSS 0.91, 1.0 and 2.0 formats. You can set the format in the RoboMaker or through the “rssVersion” parameter when you invoke the robot. Also, you choose the schedule for the RSS robot before you publish it, i.e run every 30 minutes, 12 hours, or every day.

Example:
http://service.openkapow.com/Cai/iph.rss
http://service.openkapow.com/Cai/iph…rsion=atom_1.0

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REST Robot
This robot run as a REST service, called using normal URL, takes in input values as parameters and outputs data as XML, JSON, CSV, HTML or XHTML. You can set the format in the RoboMaker or through the “resultformat” parameter when you invoke the robot. You can define a default format in the RoboMaker ( File->Robot Configuration->Output formats ). If the “resultformat” parameter is not specified, the default format is used.

Example:
http://service.openkapow.com/tutoria…archText=kapow
http://service.openkapow.com/tutoria…sultformat=xml

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Web Clip Robot
This robot is a reuse of one site’s UI, taking complete site or just part of it, outputs pure HTML. You can tweak the site’s html and stylesheets in the RoboMaker. This is useful in taking one fucntionality from a site to display it to another. It realizes the potential of making the web your personal database.

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