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Hacking the CBC web site: Part II

Here’s a neato little tip if you want to go back in time through the news. Type this into your web browser’s address bar:

http://www.cbc.ca/news_archives/YYYYMMDD.jhtml

Be sure to substitute the “YYYYMMDD” with the actual year, month, and day you’d like to look up. For instance:

http://www.cbc.ca/news_archives/20010911.jhtml

There’s even a shortcut to this on the CBC News page — it’s near the very bottom-right of the page. Pretty nice touch, considering nearly all other national news outlets charge you to read content older than a month or so.

The page you see in the news archive is just a “snapshot” of what www.cbc.ca/news/ looked like at some point during that day. If you want to see all of the news that was published on a particular day, you can use the searge engine: type the follwing search query in: “inurl:story/2001/09/11″ (without the quotes) This will return all news stories written on September 11, 2001.

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3 Responses to “Hacking the CBC web site: Part II”

Blake says:

Just to further comment on this…

Keep in mind that all of our news is free and extends as far back as 1998. The page you see in the news archive is just a “snapshot” of what http://www.cbc.ca/news/ looked like at some point during that day.

If you want to see all of the news that was published on a particular day, you can use our search engine:

type the follwing search query in: “inurl:story/2001/09/11″ (without the quotes) This will return all news stories written on September 11, 2001.

Tod Maffin says:

Thanks Blake — I’ll add this to the post.

attom bomb says:

I’m sure the copyright people will love this

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