October 2008
2 posts
Dapper: make RSS feeds from listing pages
It’s frustrating to find a site you really want to follow but which doesn’t publish its listing of news etc as an RSS feed. That’s a problem Dapper.net is really good at solving. Sign up online for free, give it one or more web page URLs, and identify which repeating bits of the page are the title, date, and description fields you want in your RSS. It’s all point and click...
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SimplePie: do stuff with RSS feeds
SimplePie is a PHP class which makes it easy to grab and use the RSS feed from services like Delicious, Flickr or Twitter. So you could take the feed of results of pages mentioning your product of brand from Google Blogsearch, and make them appear on your blog sidebar.
Of course, there are other ways of doing this: for simple feeds, there may be widgets that do it more easily. And PHP5’s...