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Create RSS from ANY web page (feedity.com)
5 points by nreece on Aug 2, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



This idea strikes me as a classic hacker's toy: technically good, but not sold well at all to the average consumer (aka "the world").

Why not repackage it as a way to find out when and how your favorite sites update? Like a really simplified RSS reader (either a desktop app or web app) that uses the current technology to let you know when things have changed on arbitrary websites. I could see a lot of people being interested in something like that who have no clue what RSS is.


Good point.


Can it do homestarrunner.com? I'd love to get an RSS feed of that. Well I guess I'll try it.


Which page on homestarrunner.com? All I can see is non-HTML Flash.


yeah, it's all flash. But couldn't an RSS generator at least check the date the page was updated from the headers?


It's not about updation date. It's about content. The RSS generator will "scrape" indexable content, viz HTML. It cannot read Flash content (because its embedded in a non-standard format), just like a search engine bot (Google) can't.


No, it didn't work.




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