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- 15 Mar 2006 (2 years ago)
RSS For Any Page
- by Spiny
It lets you generate an RSS feed from any web page, very easily. So if you're favourite site doesn't provide a feed, or it isn't up to snuff then you can create your own. Of course the feed you get is from feed43.com, so it will also allow you to get a feed from a site that your corp firewall has blocked :)
Here's one I knocked up for Blues News
This obviously works best with news type sites like Blue's or the planet* sites, less well with sites that provide no text underneath their headlines.
Course you could just use the native Blues News RSS: www.bluesnews.com/news/news_1_0.rdf
Feed43 looks very clever, but I've got to say, I'm struggling to find a site I visit now without a native rss feed.
2nd para, last scentence, Slim :) Most sites do have feeds these days, but it's still useful for sites like techreport.com whose 'feed' is just a link to page with the article & all the associated macromedia flash ads. (I'm one of those wierdos who likes full text feeds). I even prefer my feed43 feed for blues news to the official one as the official one only delivers a few lines of the news post. With the feed43 version I get the entire post in my rss reader.
Have you looked at www.Feedity.com? It works well too, and its very slick (love its simplicity) ... check it out.