Mosts news website nowadays are rich-content websites where they do not only provide
news but also advertisements. Many of the advertisement banners in a news website are large sized
files. Therefore, it would take more time to download a news webpages. The purpose of this
research is to help user with limited internet bandwidth to abtain news-only content from a news
websites omitting its advertisements. Many news websites have common structures in indexing and
directories. Regular expression can be used to adopt the structure of a news websiles. By using
windows services, the application will run in background to download news-only content. The
results of this experiments showed that this application can download the contents of a news
websites in background and users can read them offline. File size to be downloaded can also be
reduced significantly.
Keywords: Regular expression, Windows Service, Background process, News Conten
