Comments on: Making an RSS feed where there isn’t one.

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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:57:50 +0000

[...] 9 – I hate it when I come across a blog or video site that doesn’t have an RSS feed. Andy Dickinson has a quick tip on how to make your own RSS feed. [...]

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:24:46 +0000

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links for 2009-10-28 « Sarah Hartley — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:03:40 +0000

[...] Making an RSS feed where there isn’t one. by andydickinson.net Well we could resign ourselves to adding them to the list of pages that we bookmark and visit. A bit like those regular calls we make to keep our contacts book fresh; no bad thing. But another solution is to use on of the many RSS services on the web to ‘scrape’ the page for content and convert it in to a feed. (tags: preston rss howto) [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:43:18 +0000

I think the sure fire way is with something like Pipes and some heavy lifting using reg-ex. I’m sure that feed43 is no more or less flaky than Dapper. Just tried setting the same feed up and it was a little easier (nice visual interface) but a few of the other pages I made with feed43 were not as easy.

By: Egrommet

Egrommet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:23:39 +0000

I’ll be looking at that with interest, I’ve played with Dapr and found it a bit flaky and I’m currently trying to get to grips with OpenKapow to build my own rss robots too – but anything for an easier life is greatly welcomed.