Top 10 Free Tools to Create RSS for Any Website

Mon, Apr 27, 2009

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RSS feeds have become extremely popular over the past couple of years. Previously it
was blogs which popularized RSS feeds, but now all major News websites, social
networking websites and even forums have started providing RSS feeds. For many
people RSS feed readers like Google Reader, Netvibe etc have become convenient ways
of getting the latest news at one place. Hence I find it annoying when some websites that
offer constantly updated content in a “feed-friendly” format, but neglect to offer this
option, either deliberately or just being lethargic.

In addition to that, some websites do not offer multiple RSS feeds for each
category/author. Technically Personal is one of them. Initially I had disabled multiple
feeds for some stupid reason, but now I do not remember how I made that change. This is
where some free online services come to the rescue. They allow anyone to create an
RSS feed of any website. Some are very simple while others are more advanced, so
depending on your level of expertise, you are sure to find a tool that can help you get the
custom RSS feed you are seeking.
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Top 10 Free Tools to Create RSS for any website

1. Feedity

Feedity is a simple online tool to create RSS feed for any webpage. In addition to the
automatically generated feeds, you can add a small level of refining like adding a Start
and End block, to notify the service where each post starts and ends. If you wish to, you
can upgrade to premium account where advance features like data integration, RSS feed
merging etc are provided.

2. Feed43

Feed43 engine converts free-form HTML or XML documents to valid RSS feeds by
extracting snippets of text or HTML. This service is not simple like Feedity, but if you
want complete control over your generated feed, this is a great tool.

3. FeedYes

With FeedYes, you can generate feeds for any website or specific page, you can
syndicate those feeds and put the headlines on your own website. All you have to do is,
give the URL of the page you wish to transform and a tag. Truly a great tool for
beginners.

4. WebRSS
With WebRSS, you can Create, Market and Track RSS Feeds for FREE! Also, you
will be able to host any RSS Feed on your personalized start page for FREE! You can
also Ping your feed to the major ping servers for free if you wish to!

5. PonyFish

Its a simple web-based tool that allows you to create your own RSS feeds from almost
any web page, probably the easiest service around. All you have to do is simply point
Ponyfish to the web page you want to create a feed from, then follow a few steps to setup
which types of links you want to include in the feed.

6. Dapper

Dapper allows anyone to create Widgets that track the content of any website. This can
also be used to track the RSS feeds of sites that do not offer one. In terms of features,
Dapper has the most detailed and extensive options, so make sure you read their tutorials.

7. FeedMarklet

Feedmarklet gives you your own RSS feed instantly, with no sign up required, probably
the simplest and the easiest to use, but it requires manual updating of the feed that you
generate. Using a bookmarklet button in the browser bookmark bar, users can easily add
any page to the feed quickly. It won’t scrape content but makes it easy to add your own.

8. Page2RSS

Page2RSS is a simple service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds.
It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS aggregator.
It offers a bookmark toolbar button that provides a quick way to generate a feed while
visiting any website.

9. FeedBeater
Possibly the simplest interface, where you just plug the web site URL in, and let the web
site take care of the rest of the conversion. You can turn any URL into an RSS feed or
email alert with FeedBeater

10. FeedFire

You simply register at FeedFire, input the URL of the page and FeedFire does the rest
for you in the fraction of a second. All that’s needed is a FULL URL to the page you
would like to have made into RSS. All bandwidth costs to host the new RSS feeds are
absorbed by FeedFire.

I hope one of these tools help you in creating your own RSS feed. Do bookmark the post
if you like it.

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