The v1.1 of Meta-Press.es has quickly been released one week after the v1.0 in order to address the firsts kind feedbacks I received.

Then, on my way to Turin (and the DECODE Symposium) I met with Benjamin Bayart and he convinced me to accept RSS format as an input format, in order to get stable parsing of sources and to open-up to radios (and their podcasts) in addition to newspapers.

To do this I needed to adopt XPath in addition to CSS selectors.

I also decided to simplify the way sources are contributed by people, setting a new simpler format to describe them. It’s now done only in JSON which is a simple syntax well documented, no more JavaScript programming required. It also provided a user input sanitizing process, avoiding the usage of eval(). Now there is no logic embeded with the data and it might be reused by other programs (just like month_nb).

Elisa, the designer of the artwork of Meta-Press.es also produced a new favicon an animation to wait during the search and an image to illustrate the empty screen of a no-results search.

To finish, I added new sources and there is now more than 100 sources, for 38 countries and in 21 languages. A special effort have been made for French sources, and there is now 24 of them. 14 sources are for scientifique press (thx to Remyd1. 30% of the collection is RSS based. It’s faster to add as the data structure is already known and the date format is standard, but we loose the exact number of existing results for those sources as we just have access to the 20 results embeded in the provided RSS file.

Mozilla reports a stable 350+ daily user count since a month.

Here is the list of modifications.