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He mentions that they dropped the RSS functionality, but this is not the case at all. If you edit one of your existing alerts, you can change it to a feed. Ref
by kungfooey 13y ago
He mentions that they dropped the RSS functionality, but this is not the case at all. If you edit one of your existing alerts, you can change it to a feed.
Ref: http://www.google.com/alerts/manage http://www.google.com/alerts/manage
- jrochkind1 13y agoVerified. But the blog post OP cites provides some convincing evidence that they were gone for at least a moment last July. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/07/google-alerts-drops-rss-feeds.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/07/google-alerts-drops... I guess they changed their mind and brought them back? Weird.
- mindcrime 13y agoIt may have had something to do with the Google Reader shutdown. The reason I say this, is that I just recently launched an RSSOwl instance, where I had populated RSSOwl with a list of feeds some time ago... including quite a few Google Alert RSS feeds. Strangely none of the Google Alerts were working, and when I started investigating, I found that all of them had a path that included something like $BLAH/reader/$BLAH which suggests that, when those feeds were originally created, the delivery mechanism somehow involved GReader. I went back to Google Alerts and re-copied each of the feed URLs and see that in the new URLs, the path looks like: $BLAH/alerts/$BLAH Not definitive, but it hints at some kind of connection.
- gwern 13y agoAs jrochkind1 says, they certainly did drop the RSS feeds, but restored them recently. I'll update that detail, but I can't help but suspect that I'll be needing to go back and update it again in the near future...