[Web4lib] RSS feeds and libraries

[David Rothman]

Hi Nick-

There are a bunch of scrape-a-page-to-a-feed services out there, but none
I've seen compare to Feed43 <http://www.feed43.com/> in terms of power and
flexibility.  I wrote a tutorial for it (available
here<http://davidrothman.net/2006/07/13/how-to-create-a-feed-for-a-feedless-site-with-feed43/>
).

PonyFish <http://www.ponyfish.com/> is only slightly more complex to use
than Feedity and much more powerful.

Some others I've tried:

   - WotzWot <http://www.wotzwot.com/>
   - FeedYes <http://www.feedyes.com/>
   - Feedfire <http://www.feedfire.com/>
   - Feedwhip <http://www.feedwhip.com/>


-David

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On 7/27/07, Nick Rice <nickrice at eml.cc> wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> I'm a fellow librarian from NJ. Just wanted to share a really useful and
> simple web tool with you all. Its called Feedity (www.feedity.com), and
> it lets you create RSS feeds for any ANY webpage or website. I tried
> another such tool last year, but it was darn complicated and so
> slowwwwww. However Feedity has been very useful for data syndication and
> day-to-day feed subscriptions. We even used it to create and import an
> RSS feed into our inhouse SQL database. Its free for personal use and it
> works great for me so far. So try it out and share your tips!
>
> Best,
>
> Nicky
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