Filter your RSS Feeds

14 February 2006 | By Ian in Made by isnoop, PHP, Related sites

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.

14 Comments on “Filter your RSS Feeds”

  1. 17 February 2006 | jaejae Said:

    thanks

     

  2. 19 February 2006 | Jason Said:

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

     

  3. 19 February 2006 | Ian Said:

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

     

  4. 24 February 2006 | Kacmi Said:

    :)

     

  5. 25 February 2006 | techbee Said:

    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. 25 February 2006 | Ian Said:

    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. 25 February 2006 | wengshage Said:

    wengshage

     

  8. 05 March 2006 | bess wang Said:

    hi~~~

     

  9. 05 March 2006 | zhongguozzz Said:

    thanks

     

  10. 06 March 2006 | Michael's Blog Said:

    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…

     

  11. 06 March 2006 | Mohamed Abu sunineh Said:

    there is no comments

     

  12. 15 March 2006 | Pieterr Said:

    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? ;-)

     

  13. 13 May 2006 | paul Said:

    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

     

  14. 05 July 2007 | mldebondt Said:

    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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