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Here is a selection of some of the most interesting and useful RSS tools.The list doesn’t pretend to be exhaustive or comprehensive of all the RSS tools and services out there providing such features. You are very wlecome to contribute additional tools and services in the Comments section at the bottom of this article.

Scraping and Creating custom RSS feeds from sites that do not have any : –

1. Ponyfish RSS feeds generator enables you to create feeds from any web page in few clicks:

Ponyfish is a web-based tool that allows you to create your own RSS feeds from any web page. All you have to do is simply point Ponyfish to the web page you want to create a feed from, then follow a few steps to setup which types of links you want to include in the feed. The basic service is free. There is also a premium plan that allows you to put advertising and use Ponyfish on a commercial site.

2. RSSpect RSS feeds generator enables you to add RSS feeds to any web page :

RSSpect is a service that lets you add RSS feeds to any web page. RSSpect offers three kinds of feeds, so you can add an RSS feed to literally anything you find online: “AnySite feeds” allow you to create update feeds from any website or any document online, even those that you don’t control; “MySite feeds” allow you to generate advanced RSS feeds from your own website content, automatically. “Podcast feeds” are specially-designed RSS feeds to be used with iTunes. Free to use.

3. Feed43 Advanced RSS generator creates feeds from static web pages :

Feed43 is a web-based service which allows you to create a custom RSS feed for any site (which doesn’t have one). This process is generally called HTML scraping. Yes, you are reading it right: Feed43 converts free-form HTML or XHTML documents to valid RSS feeds by extracting specific recurring snippets of text/HTML, or by utilizing custom search patterns. This service is definitely for “geeks” or for those who some good technical comptence. To give you an idea of its technical complexity here is the procedure of setting up a feed :

Find a web page with the content that interests you.
Create a new feed on Feed43, which points to that web page.
In feed parameters, define search patterns and output templates for this feed.
Get the link to your feed.
Subscribe to this feed using your favorite feed reader (aggregator).
Optionally, protect your feed with password so no one could alter it.

Feed43 is currently in private beta stage of development.

4. Feedity Simple, non-geek RSS generator to scrape static web pages with no feeds:

Feedity is an automatic RSS feed generator for non-geeks that has already been featured as a Microsoft Windows Live.com gadget. Feedity simplifies the process of scraping RSS from any web page by offering a user-friendly and simplified approach. Feedity performs content analysis, picks-up the most prominent cluster of hyperlinks and automatically generates RSS web feeds from HTML-based web pages that do not have already an RSS feed. The beta version is free for personal use though I would recommend if you find this tool useful to please consider donating any small money amount to Ashutosh Nilkanth, Feedity generous developer.

5. FeedYes RSS Generator to RSS feeds to every page on the web:

“The best and easiest way to get custom made feeds” Reviewed by Robert Scoble, Dion Hinchcliffe, and Matt Marshall.

Automatically generated feeds for any page on the web. Just type the url of any page, and FeedYes gives you the feed BELOW:

Start now and generate a feed

Generate feeds for any website or specific page
Save those feeds, so you can read them in any rss reader. One click adding.
Syndicate those feeds: put the headlines on your own website
Monitor websites realtime: always know the latest news from any webpage.

The feed you were just reading, was created using FeedYES.com. FeedYes gives every website and even every page on a website its own unique feed. Even when a website does not supply regular feeds by itself. Feeds which are created using FeedYes.com can be read with any RSS reader. FeedYES is free.

Click here to create a feed yourself.

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