Creating RSS feed for a website you want

Posted by Nico Golde in
Sunday, April 1. 2007

Today I found Feed43 which is a site offering the creation of RSS feeds for sites without one.

It is not that flexible that it could follow links and get their content like I did it with the Heise feed but you are able to parse all the information you want in a very easy way. You just specify the text on the site and put tags like {%} everywhere you want to extract information and then you just create a template for the output where you insert these tags.

I used Feed43 to create a feed of the Debian QA site for Orphaned packages with wrong maintainer site since I like
to do uploads for them if I am somehow bored but I don't want to go to the website every time.

The result is: http://feed43.com/orphaned-packages.xml

And what is really cool, you are even able to edit this feed using: http://feed43.com/feed.html?name=orphaned-packages

Ok there is a small advertisement in every article like "-- Delivered by [1]Feed43 service" but I can live with it.

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I'm using this to generate RSS feeds for some sites that have none, or where the RSS feed is crappy (e.g. heise).

#1 Erich Schubert (Homepage) on 2007-04-01 15:15 (Reply)

There's also page2rss.com, which only shows differences. Good for tracking debian bugs for example.

#2 Guillaume Rischard (Homepage) on 2007-04-01 16:23 (Reply)

oh page2rss seems to be useful too, thanks!

#3 nion on 2007-04-01 16:58 (Reply)

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