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Create RSS from ANY web page
Feedity is an RSS generator for web pages without a web syndication format. A true web service (Web 3.0 / SaaS)
- tocomment 19y agoCan it do homestarrunner.com? I'd love to get an RSS feed of that. Well I guess I'll try it.
- tocomment 19y agoNo, it didn't work.
- nreece 19y agoWhich page on homestarrunner.com? All I can see is non-HTML Flash.
- tocomment 19y agoyeah, it's all flash. But couldn't an RSS generator at least check the date the page was updated from the headers?
- nreece 19y agoIt'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.
- aston 19y agoThis 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.
- nreece 19y agoGood point.