Filter your RSS Feeds

14 Feb

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.

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14 Responses to “Filter your RSS Feeds”

  1. jaejae February 17, 2006 at 12:25 am #

    thanks

  2. Jason February 19, 2006 at 11:06 am #

    does it work? Tried your example and didn’t get any results.

  3. Ian February 19, 2006 at 12:20 pm #

    Good eye. I wasn’t searching inside of CDATA. It’ll work for you now.

  4. Kacmi February 24, 2006 at 5:13 am #

    :)

  5. techbee February 25, 2006 at 7:35 am #

    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

  6. Ian February 25, 2006 at 10:02 am #

    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.

  7. wengshage February 25, 2006 at 6:45 pm #

    wengshage

  8. bess wang March 5, 2006 at 5:06 am #

    hi~~~

  9. zhongguozzz March 5, 2006 at 7:03 pm #

    thanks

  10. Mohamed Abu sunineh March 6, 2006 at 10:15 pm #

    there is no comments

  11. Pieterr March 15, 2006 at 4:57 am #

    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? ;-)

  12. paul May 13, 2006 at 6:39 pm #

    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

  13. mldebondt July 5, 2007 at 5:01 am #

    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.

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  1. Michael's Blog - March 6, 2006

    Filter Your RSS Feeds

    I just thought I would make a quick post to let you guys know about something really quite cool by Ian Anthony, basically it allows you to take your favourite RSS feeds and then give keywords to look for and only display ones containing it. This is rea…

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