Found this, through a post in Robert Scoble’s blog. Feed43 scrapes web pages and generates RSS feeds. Feed43 seems to have disappeared. So I updated this entry to remove Feed43 info and substitute it with DapperFox.
DapperFox is a Firefox extention that sits next to the RSS icon in your browser.
Whenever you visit a website DapperFox will show you RSS feeds that other people have created, as well as allow you to create a new feed to share with the community. This is perfect when a site does not have its own RSS feed, or when its feed doesn’t meet your needs.
This is great. This will make more information available through RSS. About a year ago, we released a version of InfoMinder generate RSS feeds from web page changes.
Related: InfoMinder, Information to Intelligence, List of 100 as a Thinking Tool (or 100 uses of InfoMinder)
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September 21, 2007
from where can we find Feed43 engine please tell me
dorai
September 21, 2007
It seems to have moved. After a bit of googling, I located it here:
http://mashable.com/weblist/feed43/
Thanks for pointing it out. I will update the link in the blog post too.
Dorai
dorai
September 21, 2007
Sorry. Looks as if they are gone. The link I provided does not work either. I found this while Googling for “web page to rss”
http://www.baekdal.com/web2rss/
Tested it and it works fine.
Here is another (I have not used this):
http://www.wotzwot.com/rssxl.php
dorai
January 4, 2008
I updated the post since there seem to be others still accessing it. I added DapperFox, a firefox extension. It works.
There are some features I would like to see. They probably exist already. I will explore a bit and post.
harry
September 15, 2008
how can i convert a website where the posts are password proteted to RSS. Note that I have the legal permission and of course the password.
dorai
September 15, 2008
@harry – Have you tried using the tool after logging in?
Shahriar Hyder
April 16, 2009
Here is a post regarding techniques for ‘Scraping your way to RSS feeds’ albeit in a non-programmatic (layman) way:
http://technosiastic.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/scraping-your-way-to-rss-feeds/
dorai
April 16, 2009
Shahriar, Thanks.
dorai
April 16, 2009
Shahriar,
Thanks. I not only saw the post but found a useful link to a scraper using Yahoo pipes – http://bit.ly/32RD
Sandy
August 30, 2009
I never ever post but this time I will,Thanks alot for the great blog.
dorai
August 30, 2009
Thanks.