I subscribe to several fast moving feeds. Most of the news in these feeds is of little interest to me, but I’ve remained subscribed just so I can catch the occasional gem.
This problem begged a simple solution, so I’ve created FeedSifter.com. It is a very easy to use service that allows you to monitor any RSS/RDF/Atom feed for multiple different groups of words. FeedSifter automatically determines what sort of feed you are filtering and gives you only the entries that you care about. You can generate as many filtered feeds as you’d like, and you can change your filter at any time by returning to the site.
For example, say you want to filter the FatWallet.com Hot Deals feed for free items, NewEgg.com deals, and drives of all sorts (USB, harddrives, etc). You could use a filter like the following:
Free
NewEgg
GB,drive
Once entered, you are provided with a filtered feed URL and you’re all set.
thanks
does it work? Tried your example and didn’t get any results.
Good eye. I wasn’t searching inside of CDATA. It’ll work for you now.
:)
I like it. Is it free-ware? I have a blog on RSS news. Is it ok if I publish the link? Would like to know if you are a professional developer, too, and if you would like your name or company name mentioned. Thank you
techbee,
Yes, this is a totally free service. Feel free to distribute the link wherever you’d like. Linking to the site is enough credit. I’ll put up an “about” page soon enough with more info.
wengshage
hi~~~
thanks
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Another much-desired feature is filtering out duplicates out of a collection of RSS feeds, see this discussion:
http://digg.com/technology/_Sitedeals15_released_:_Direct-link_versions_of_Digg_feeds
Maybe you could build that in as well? ;-)
I tried to get this to work with http://youtube.com/rss/global/recently_added.rss and keywords (all combos: same line with (and without) commas; separate lines) but nothing worked
Hi, I was just wondering if it’s possible to invert the filter? I have some feeds with ads in them, but I’d rather not see the ads… I tried “!ad”, but that didn’t work… Thanks.