Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool

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Published Sunday, September 28, 2003 11:09 PM by RoyOsherove
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Sunday, September 28, 2003 8:09 PM by TrackBack

# [New article]: Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool (site scraping)

Monday, September 29, 2003 10:20 AM by TrackBack

# <br> Jim Meeker


Jim Meeker
Monday, September 29, 2003 11:44 AM by Vijay

# re: Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool

Really cool ! Great article Roy :)
Tuesday, September 30, 2003 3:41 AM by TrackBack

# Link Interface 15.

Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:02 AM by Jim D

# re: Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool

Roy,

This is a great app and surely will be useful in the near future, I do however question your choice to scrape dotnetwire. It seems like the site is only updated every two weeks. Hardly worth doing all that work for.
Tuesday, September 30, 2003 9:47 AM by Roy Osherove

# re: Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool

Jim: When I wrote this I wasn't aware that :
1) .Net wire already have an RSS feed
2) it's just an example for a useful feed. it's pretty easy to make a regex for most other sites fairly easily.
Saturday, October 04, 2003 11:38 PM by maxhodges

# re: Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool

what is RSS?
Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:01 AM by TrackBack

# Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool

Monday, January 26, 2004 4:19 AM by Harald

# re: Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool

The link to the Source is not valid! Is it still possible to download the source?
Regards
Harald
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:12 AM by DotNetJunkie

# re: Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool

Very nice. I've been googling all day trying to find just such a starting point for doing something similar. This should prove to save me quite a bit of time.

My boss is insiting that I build a tool that will turn any HTML document into an RSS feed. I'm not sure how I will accomplish that though. There are just too many possibilities, at first glance it would seem one would need artificial intelligence. When I told him that, he said "take a look at myRSS, they do it so you should be able to." Sure enough, on the surface it would seem that pretty much any web page can be converted into an RSS feed at myRSS. How they do it, I know not. But I would love to learn how.
Monday, April 12, 2004 1:57 PM by l.m. orchard

# re: Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool

I think how myRSS works in the general case is by just lifting all the links from a page and producing a feed.
Friday, December 31, 2004 2:07 PM by TrackBack

# [link] mFeeds - Podcast feeds from any page with media links

Friday, December 31, 2004 2:11 PM by TrackBack

# [link] mFeeds - Podcast feeds from any page with media links

Monday, June 12, 2006 12:44 AM by Joe

# re: Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool


Have you looked at Anthracite to do this? It ships with several examples showing HTML, RSS and Podcast feed scraping, easily exporting to RSS feeds or databases. No scripting required, really!