Feed and RSS Tools in 5 Steps
RSS is a wonderful tool, you can find many good articles explaining what can be done.
To understand have a go at the RSS Playground after reading the specifications.
Add-ons/Linkrolls: See also under converters.
To understand have a go at the RSS Playground after reading the specifications.
Add-ons/Linkrolls: See also under converters.
- Feed2JS.org: Update! Have changed domain name. RSS javascript generator with some pre-made styles. Also for download. Alternative links: 1, 2, 3, 4
- Feed Digest: generator with mixer, filter, international settings and manual or premade templates. (login required.)
- FeedRoll: RSS to JavaScript Converter with style options.
- feedfeeds: NEW! iframe blogroll, 10 days trail (login required)
- feeds4all: Has a short linkroll script.
- Feedostyle: NEW! Scrolling linkroll generator with a lot of options
- Tickermyfeed: scrolling feed generator with color and size options.
- FeedSweep by howdev.com: Feedroll generator, has several styles and Advanced version with lots of options. You can also syndicate your LiveJournal with your LJ username.
- Rapidfeeds: PHP, ASP, javascript and iframe Linkroll generator and manager. (login required)
- RSS feed widget by musestorm. Simple copy past RSS widget.
- RSS to JavaScript Converter by BlinkBits.
- RSS to JavaScript Converter by globalsyndication
- RSS-spider News Wizard
- RSS-xpress Lite from UKOLN at the University of Bath: RSS to JavaScript Converter
- RSS2GIF: NEW! This is like a button, an auto-updating image showing your latest entries. [info]
- RSSinclude: RSS to JS, Iframe or PHP with simple visual options.
- RSSPECT: HTML2RSS, RSS2JS. (login required.)
- RSS/RDF/ATOM Converter v4.0
- RSS/RDF/ATOM to JavaScript Scroller 1.0
- RSS/RDF/ATOM to JavaScript Boxes 1.0
- Bitty: Webpage browser, create from URL, RSS, OPML, Blogmarks, Icerocket...
- activeRoll Wizard: For OPML with style options, script to copy paste or download.
- Grazr: Creats an interactive linkroll/rss reader from OPML.
- Optimal Widget Generator: from OPML
- Opod: AJAX OPML and RSS viewer widget
- Wizz RSS Reader-publish: Let's you publish your online Wizz reader OPML (requiers Firefox plugin), has 3 styles.
- My Timelines: Ajax DHTML widget that shows a feed in a timeline. See here.
- Technorati Widget: Your Technorati favorites in a linkroll (login required)
- JavaScript RSS box viewer: RSS box viewer can display the formats RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92, RSS 1.0 (w/o modules), RSS 2.0 and Scripting News 2.
- Buttons: Showing you have RSS enabled is important.
- feed icons: RSS icon to download in PDF, SVG and Adobe AI
- OPMLIcons.com: NEW! The OPML.org icon project icons, also in PDF, SVG and AI.
- Chicklet Creator: Generates code to many many RSS readers for all major Blog engines. [Alternative link]
- Blogflux: NEW! Alternative landing page, leads to 11 rss readers. [example]
- Feedbutton.com: NEW! Generates a button that popups a choice of 8 buttons.
- Feedpass: NEW! Alternative landing page, leads to a page full of subscription options, readers, email, social bookmarks... and help for beginners.[example]
- feedicon20: Like the above, available in japanese. [example
] - Add to Any: By MicroPat. Multi RSS button and to social bookmark services
- iFeedReaders: NEW! Alternative landing page for either RSS or social bookmarks.
- MultiRSS: Multi RSS button for subscribing to near 40 major RSS readers.
- SoloSub: Multi RSS button to over 8 major RSS readers.
- Syndication Subscription Service: Multi RSS button to 18 services.
- SingleSub: Multi RSS using a special URL to subscribe to over 50 services, email notification included. See example
- quickSub: Multi RSS button that shows the over 20 links when you hover over the button and more.
- RSS Subscription Options: Multi RSS button that popsup a box with buttons to 10 major services, requires access to template's head.
- Feedzilla subscribe button: popsup a list a readers.
- Feedburner FeedFlair: Feedburner's FeedFlair can generate javascript codes for many blog platforms that will display the buttons you have choosen, there are much more than subscription buttons.
PopMarks!: NEW! by Greg Hill and 3spots. Customizable javascript code. Multi tool button for Blogger, WordPress and Typepad. There are much more than subscription buttons.- Rapidfeeds: Has a quick button to let readers create a linkroll of your site.
- Technorati: Let readers add you Blog To Technorati.
Builders/Generators:
- Blogstreet RSS generator (no login)
- instantRSS: Online simple RSS generator or for download.
- Feed43: HTML2RSS (login required.)
- FeedFire: HTML2RSS (login required.)
- FeedTier: HTML2RSS (login required.)
- FeedYes: HTML2RSS (login required.)
- Free RSS Feed Writer: NEW! (no login)
- Geofeed: To create a "geographically aware" feed by entering the URL of a feed.
- IceRocket Free RSS Builder (login required.)
- Linkrss: Simple service to create and store feeds.
- Ponyfish RSS Feed Builder: Unregistered account feeds expires after 7 days of inactivity.
- RSS generator: RSS Feed generator using regular expressions.
- RSSPECT: NEW! HTML2RSS, RSS2JS, email notofication. (login required. Free up to 5 feeds.)
- RSSgenr8: [RSS 0.92.] (no login)
- RSSxl Beta: [RSS2.0] (no login)
- RSS Headliner: RSS Builder.
- Sabifoo: feed generator though IM
- Yellowwheel RSS Feed Generator: [RSS2.0] Manual creation. (no login)
- XHTML-to-RSS Extractor: [RSS1.0] only from XHTML. (no login)
- ROR Generator: ROR is a rapidly growing XML format for describing your website. To create your ROR file, just enter the information below and press the button.
- Poderator: Stores your podcast MP3 files and help you create the XML files. (login required.)
- RSS Writer: download for windows and Mac os X
- Atom2RSS
- Free RSS Tools: Has a RSS Creator, RSS Editor, RSS Publisher, RSS Validator and a RSS Viewer
- lazytom's FeedJumbler: This does many things: RSS javascript generator, Convert a RSS or Atom-based feed into RSS, Atom and/or HTML and JavaScript, Merge/splice several RSS or Atom-based feeds into one combined RSS and/or Atom feed.
- RSSPECT: NEW! HTML2RSS, RSS2JS, and also does email notofications. (login required.)
- RSS2WAP: RSS to WML for access on WAP devices (RSS2WML, RSS WAP or RSS-to-WAP).
- Feedsplitter: Feedsplitter is a PHP script that converts RSS or RDF newsfeeds into HTML, Javascript, or whatever format you want. For PHP enabled servers.
- myelin: Feed Normalizer: Converts any feed to RSS2.0
- PHP RSS Parser: creates a PHP code that will display a RSS feed
- rss2pdf.org: RSS/OPML to PDF or mail. [alternative link]
- RSS 2 PDF.com: converter.
- wos2bib: Converts from Web of Science, NCBI and similar databases or bibTex and XML files to bibTex, XML or layouted Output. There is also command-line version.
- OPML workstation: powerpoint 2 OMPL
- podcast RSS feed generator by tdscripts.com
- Feed2Podcast
- TechDrip.com: RSS to mobile RSS
- read.io - Baustelle: takes your weblog entries via your RSS feed, automagically converts your posts into spoken words and gives you back your very own podcast.
- Free RSS to HTML PHP Script: for download.
- RSS to JSON: for download.
- XOXO Tools: NEW!
- Outline Converter: XOXO, OPML, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, ATOM, JSON (raw), Arbitrary XML to XOXO, OPML, JSON
- Feed 2 XOXO Blog Format and hAtom: Turns a feed into XOXO Blog Format - compatible hAtom.
- XOXO Blog Format, hAtom 2 RSS: XOXO Blog Format, hAtom to RSS
- Standardise RSS: RSS, ATOM, hAtom, or XOXO Blog Format feed (as well as some Active Channel content and other miscellaneous feed formats which are not 100% supported) 2 'standardised' core RSS 2.0
Validate: It's allway good to check it to see if it's readable to all readers and tools.
- Feed Validator: Atom and RSS also for download.
- Fee RSS Toll Validator
- Ben Hammersley: XHTML Validator to RSS: A magical URL, Automaticaly validates thought your RSS feed reader, you will only see something when there's an error.
- Experimental Online RSS 1.0 Validator
- help4web Validators: Have put together all the validators you need. (HTML, XHTML, CSS, RSS, RDF and more)
- Redland RSS 1.0 Validator
- RSS 1.1 Feed Validator by inamidst.com
- RSS Validator at rss.scripting.com
- OPML Validator
- Weblogs feed Validator
- W3C Feed Validation Service, for Atom and RSS
- Simple AJAX Feed Reader: has a debug mode.
- Simple Ajax Exposed: Shows XML input
- XML well-formedness checker and validator: XML checker by URL
- XML.com RUWF: XML cheker by URL or direct input.
- STG's validator: XML cheker by URL, local upload or direct input.
- xFruits: Social or private: mix(RSS/Atom/OPML), RSS2xHTML, RSS2mobile, RSS2PDF Now with Chinese language support. (login required.) [mix example]
- XOXO Validator: Validates Microformat XOXO
Track, Statistics: (Many email services also include monitoring)
- FeedBurner: A very complete service that will manage, track with click though, export (CVS, Excel) and has many side tools such as badges, feed count button...
- Kinja
- PubSub: Service that lets you track keywords and generates an RSS you can subscribe to.
- Socialmeter for feeds
- FeedPublish: Multi tools, mix and trac.
- Rapidfeeds: Create, Publish an track
- Saved Search Pro: enables you to create advanced eBay searches and delivers them to you every day via a single email or RSS feed.
- Stats Tools: by Big in Japan. To come.
- Montastic: Website monitoring tool, notifies when sites go down or comes back again. Notifications via mail or RSS.
- Free Bidding Tools: Generates a feed for tracking eBay auctions.
- Weed: Open source experimental statistics application. Possibility to participate to the public statistics by adding a code to your website. Download version available.
- RSSwatcher: Let's you track keywords in feeds
Filter:
- FeedFinding: Generates a URL from one or several RSS feeds, where you change the [SEARCH TERM]
- Feedgit: NEW! Search Engine RSS feed generator. Shows results from Digg, Google, Blogs, image search... [info]
- Feedshifter: Ajax application. Free demo allows 5 entries. (login required.)
- BlogSieve.com: Advanced Feed Processing for Atom, RDF and RSS with filtering, merging and sorting.
- mySyndicaat: aggregates, filters and let's you search though your own feeds. (login required.)
- ReFilter: Simple filter (no login)
- weblog: RSS filter (login requiered)
- ZapTXT: Mail with filter (login requiered)
- Feed Rinse: url list and file upload. Login required. free up to 4 filters. (login requiered)
- Feed-Directory: Advanced search with filtering
- Touchstonegadget: Closed Alpha. Software for windows, Filtered Feed reader and manager
Mix:
- Publi.sh!: Disposable feeds for personal and groups, also by HTML mail
- feedblendr: Mix and Upload OPML
- Feed Digest: Mixer, converter.. statistics to come. (login required.)
- FeedJumbler: Merge/splice several RSS or Atom-based feeds into one combined RSS and/or Atom feed. RSS javascript generator, Convert a RSS or Atom-based feed into RSS, Atom and/or HTML and JavaScript.
- Frankenfeed: Generats a master feed. (login required.)
- RSS Mix: Simple mixer
- Feedpublish: RSS Mixer. (login required.)
- FeedShake: merge, sort and filter multiple RSS, Atom feeds and Podcasts.
- fwicki: NEW! Online reader with statistics and mixer with custom display.
- xFruits: Social or private: mix(RSS/Atom/OPML), RSS2xHTML, RSS2mobile, RSS2PDF (login required.) [mix example]
- Speedyfeed: NEW! Social, mixe, tag and read.
- Suprglu: Centralizeses information from other social software and let's you browse them by tag. (login required.)
- Peoplefeeds: Same as above using gloabal tags. (login required.)
- Profilactic (beta): NEW! Centralizeses information from other social software My Space, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Digg, del.icio.us, Blogger, Vimeo, Zooomr..
- Ufeed: Presettings for flickr, del.icious and blog feeds. Creats a public or private (example) (login required.)
- Atiki.com: Social mixer. Let's you also manualy list rss links to create a feed.
- feeds.reddit.com: Social mixer. (login required.)
- RSSor: Social mixer.
- Feedbite, myFeedz: Social mixer.
- Feedcollectors: Social mixer.
- Aggrssive: Social mixer and bundel.
- Feedbite: Social, create and search bundels
- BozPage: Creates a social custom single webpage aggregator.
- FeedRaider:NEW! Like the above but private and with a custom favicon.
- RSS DJ: Social mixer
- Kickrss: NEW! Combines RSS or ATOM feeds witht an easy-to-remember URL. (login required.)
- 2RSS: Simple online reader.
- rss.s2ch.net: Online RSS reader in text format also for mobiles.
- BozPage: Has 3 views, originaly made to create a custom RSS startpage.
- Almondrocks: Online Ajax reader with automatic RSS detection from URL and import from OPML. Use the one click automatic guest account creation
- AJAX Feed Reader Simple and AJAX Feed Reader Complex
- Complex Reader: from OPML upload.
- Feedbucket: Online reader (No login required)
- RSS Reader Highlights: Lists the latest headlines also showing feeds email. [bookmarklet]
- RSS Mad: Aggregator with a public reader.
- Chrysanth NETime Channel [RSS/ATOM/XML/RDF]
- Philter's RSS News Portal: [RSS 0.91]. Flash RSS reader.
- Blauerbot OPML reader: Has prefilled URL of most social bookmarking services where yu just need to writ in a tag.
- iPing Online Reader
- Mapped up: NEW!Dynamic social RSS aggregator with a map view using tags and Flash. [info]
- Nowsy: RSS customizable Dashbord. (no login)
- Yodpod: optinal registration.
- Simplepie demo: RSS and Atom syndication feeds.
- Plusmo: The demo simulates a mobile view of a custom feed.
RSS Search:, see also Search Engine RSS generators and places you can submit generaly let you search too.
- Blogdigger: Shows blog feeds and let's you subscribe to search results.
- Cityfeeds: search feeds by city
- Feeds for me
- Feed Findings: Let's you search keyworkd in a list of feed you enter.
- FeedMeme.com: Feed search and discovery with direct links to javascript and mobile converted links
- Feedster: Search Blog, News, Podcast or all.
- Live Search Feeds beta. Live.com's new Feed search engine.
- RSS Micro: OpenSearch engine built with AJAX with clustering search results
- Scoopgo: Let's you create your own RSS search engine.
- Searchfeedr: Let's you search a feed. [via]
- Search4RSS: Search in title, description or URL
- Nooked: RSS search by tag. Search results in RSS and OPML
OPML:
- OPML search: OPML search engine. RSS, OPML, Podcasts/Audio/Video, Categories..
- Complex Reader: Online OPML reader from OPML upload.
- Live Search OPML Generator: NEW! Generates an OPML file from your query. [info][via]
- Share Your OPML: Place to search, see who subscibed to where and share your OPML file
- OPML Wishlist: Ning Application to list features you would like.
- Opml Loader: Online OPML reader
- Optimal: Online OPML reader, input OMPL file URL
- OMPL manager: Online OPML manager and editor
- Kosso's OPML manager: Online OPML editor with drag and drop.
- ijot: OPML editor
- OMPL workstation: Online OPML editor, manager, converter... with sharing options. (login required)
- OPMLsearch: OPML search engine.
- OPML surfer: Online OPML reader. Enter the URL of an OPML file or the URL of a Webpage that has autodiscovery to an OPML file
- Feedshow OPML Builder: OPMLBuilder lets you create an OPML file from a list of RSS url or from url with wildcard filtering options. (login required)
- Feedshow "Really" Share-Your-OPML: NEW! Just enter the Url of the page from which you want to create an OPML file. [via]
- OPML Generator: Paste a list of rss-feed urls into the textarea and submit to convert into an OPML file.
- Feedvault by Big in Japan. OPML backup with shareing options. (login required)
Tagjag: (aka gada.be) Outputs OPML for every quiery.- OPML Validator
- Ziki: Lets' you upload and share your OPML
- OPML Sampling: Server side script to Build a Page Showing the “Best” Item From Each RSS Feed from OPML, requires a Yahoo API key. See example.
- Taskable: RSS and OPML browser built into the Windows taskbar notification area.
- OPML Editor: for Mac and windows
- Beeplet: Event reminders using RSS, IM, SMS
- Reminderfeed: Create a reminder message that will be delivered by feed. (no login)
- RSS To Mail/IM...:
- Beeplet: RSS to Email, SMS, IM notification, statistics using tags. (login requiered)
- BlogAlert: (no login)
- Bloglet: Blog mail.(login requiered)
- Blogarithm: Blog mail (login requiered)
- BlogFlux Subscriptions
- Bot A Blog: email notification (login requiered)
- Diffbot: Private Beta. RSS manager and notification. (login requiered)
- feed2mail.org: Has a copy past code for an email subcription box. [alternative link]
- InstantFeed: by Big in Japan. RSS or Atom to IM (MSN Messenger, Jabber, AIM and ICQ.) with an autodiscovery bookmarklet.
- rss2pdf.org: RSS/OPML to PDF or mail
- FeedBlitz: Notification, Customize look (logo,title...) and monitoring. (login requiered)
- Feedcrier: RSS to IM
- Feedlinx: RSS reader with several tools and email subscription
- Feedwhip: RSS to mail with filtering. (login requiered)
- FeedMail.com: Two way email to RSS service.(login requiered, complete for now)
- FeedBurner: Complete service to track, convert... with a lot of tools. (login requiered)
- immedi.at: RSS to IM
- Loopnote: To come. Mail, IM, SMS notifications.
- Mailfeed: by Big in Japan. To come
- MSN Alerts: MSN Messenger, email and mobile. (login requiered)
- Queoo: email and IM (login requiered)
- PubSub: Keyword RSS notification. (login requiered)
- Rasasa: RSS to email, IM, SMS notification with filtering.(login requiered)
- RMail: RSS and OPML notification service with mobile support (no login)
- RssFwd: RSS notification service. (login requiered)
- RSSPECT: NEW! HTML2RSS, RSS2JS, email notofication, reader and statistics. (login required.)
- Simplyheadlines: NEW! Email subscriptions, this service can advise you, let's you describe what or/and add your own feeds.
- Squeet: RSS notification service (login required.)
- Yutter: Notification, Customize look (logo,title...) and statistics. (login requiered)
- ZapTXT: Filtered email notification (login requiered)
- Zookoda: Advanced email subcriptiom manager. Has Daily, weekly or monthly subscriptions.
- Feedlinx WordPress Plugin: Email Subscription plugin for WordPress.
- Mail To RSS:
- dodgeit : Annonymous email with RSS (no login)
- Mail2RSS: Turns email into feeds. (no login)
- MailBucket: Turns email into feeds. (no login)
- Send2RSS: email to RSS (login requiered)
- SocialMail: Turns email into feeds.(login requiered)
- MailFeed: by Big in Japan. email notification (login requiered)
- Gmail: Let's you read all you email as RSS feeds (login requiered)
- FeedMail.com: Two way email to RSS service.(login requiered, complete for now)
- MailFeed: PHP script that let's you read mail as a feed.
- Pop2RSS: local application, POP mail to RSS
- SocialMail: by Big in Japan. email2RSS
- Webpage notification For webpages without syndication:
- Changenotes: Mail update notification for pages with no sydication.
- Watch That Page(login required)
- TrackEngine: For website owners with all the new content highlighted (login required)
- Change Detection (login required)
- InfoMinder: Update notification for webpages without syndication and feeds (login required)
- ChangeDetect: Update notification manager like online bookmarks using folders, notifies by mail, ICQ or sms. For US only.
- Trackle: Let's you monitor a list of websites every hour and recieve them all in one mail. [via]
Re-Publishing:
- FeedXS: Feed Publishing.
- MetaRSS ifeed: Publish feeds with podcast support.
- Rapidfeeds: Feed Publishing with podcast support.
- reblog: Free. For server side A way of repubshing posts using RSS feeds. Has a 'refeed' and includes a Movable Type and WordPress plugins. [Video Tutorial][download]
- reBlogger: For server side use. Mixed, filtered, track to republish posts.
Misc:
- Dappit: Advanced tool for generating many formats from a website, XML included, to build it's API. [info]
- FeedCatch: Can save feeds with date options.
- MetaRSS: NEW! Multiple tools, Reader, Meta search, Keyword feed generator and publish. available in multiple languages. [demo]
- myComments: Wordpress and Textpattern Plugin for enabling comments RSS feeds.
- RSScache.com: Caches feeds to save bandwidth.
- RSS Autodiscovery Tag Generator: The RSS link you put between the HEAD tags so the browser can detect it.
- RSS calendar: Online calendar with good RSS support
- Reeferss!: An invisible javascript code that logs referrers.
- Skinnerbox : Feed CSS style generator.
- Feed Collectors: Service to search and make collections
- Feedcraft: Feed Publishing. Track, manage, deliver. Free for one feed.
- Humanized: a project trying to make feed reading easyer.
- Gregarius: web-based RSS/RDF/ATOM feed aggregator startpage with tabs for download. Demo available.
- Webride:: Allows discussions with RSS feeds.
- URLFAN: Crawls feeds to display a list of the most buzzed links.
- Nativetext beta: RSS feeds with translation service! Registering still to come. Demo available.
- Nakatomi: Alpha. To come. Portal to community based social aggregation.
- BlogBridge Feed Library: For download, notifications in the system tray for Windows and Linux or Growl for Mac OS X.
- litefeeds: software for mobiles, lets' you subscribe to feeds, search, send emails, get email notifications and bookmark to del.icio.us
Related:
- RSS: filter and re-mix: Big comprehensive list of RSS filters and mixers
- List of Free Blog and RSS feed Submissions (no email either)
- Search Engine RSS generators
- Ajax Startpages: Generally all have RSS readers.
- Aggregators: A community compiled table of web based aggregators with feature details.
- RSS readers at 2RSS: List of desktop RSS readers mainly for Windows and Mac.
- Free Blog Pinging services: List of places for manual pinging.
- Mouseover Boucing RSS icon
- FanganFinder 's All About RSS: Good and easy overview.
- Blogging and RSS Tutorial for the Average Webmaster: Very complete tutorial by Webblogerz.com (PDF ebook to download)
- Taking RSS Beyond Headlines
- Also most Social Bookmarks generate RSS, XML or RSS/JS of your bookmarks and can be used as a tool.