Do you use Google Reader or Netvibes to read all your news? I do, and they are both missing one critical feature. I have 2 news sites that I always keep up with that have no RSS feeds I can subscribe to. What can you do? Before I found out about Feed43 I had to the sites manually. So I go to their main page, this is the first thing I see:
Your favorite site doesn’t provide news feeds?
This free online service converts any web page to an RSS feed on the fly.
This is what at least Feed43 advertises they can do. So I tested it with my two favorite reads: Jeremy Clarkson’s column on Times Online, and NewOrder’s Network & Security portal.
With a little bit of tinkering (about a 1/2 an hour), I was able to configure my very own custom RSS feed to subscribe to in my news aggregator. Sure, it requires a little knowledge of code, but their instructions were pretty good. I love how specific the tool gets, letting you extract even the smallest snippets of information and make the feed as usable and good looking as possible.
Check out the two feeds I created and feel free to subscribe:
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Cool stuff! btw, also checkout Feedity – http://feedity.com – I use it a lot these days for creating custom RSS feeds from various webpages. It is simple to use and gives great results.
jimmy added these pithy words on
Jan 04 09 at
2:57 am
I just tried Feedity, and it’s definitely quite a bit simpler to use than Feed43. I still can’t get it to generate a nice RSS feed from the Times UK Jeremy Clarkson column, but I’ll have to fool with it a little bit more.
Vlad added these pithy words on
Jan 04 09 at
11:31 am
