Comments on: Create Your Own Custom RSS News Feed

By: John Harvey

John Harvey — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:07:57 +0000

Martin,

Thanks for this tip. Dapper is truly wonderful.

However, when there is more than one update on a line your NirsoftUpdates needs to report all of the occurrences. Or is that a limitation of Dapper.

By: afan

afan — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:20:53 +0000

Check out Feed43 ( http://www.feed43.com ) — it gives much more options for creating custom RSS feeds from web pages than Dapper does.

By: Martin K.

Martin K. — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:49:00 +0000

Dapper can be good for the average person, but you often don’t get the kind of results you’re looking for. The new “Fetch Page” module in Yahoo! Pipes makes it the best tool around for making feeds from web pages.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:11:28 +0000

Thank you, I really find this dapper-webservice useful

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:05:05 +0000

Glad that I could be of help

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:53:17 +0000

Thanks for that tip! I was able to create two feeds from websites without RSS in minutes and it works! And I used it to get my favorite authors search results from Amazon on Bloglines, so I know when there’s something new from him. I’ve searching for a solution like this for ages!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:25:40 +0000

Very cool and powerful. A lot of sites (webcomics come to mind immediately, but Ars Technica and other news sites do it too) only post a very abbreviated version of the article in their RSS feed. Comics often require you to click through to see the comic at the site. Many news sites only send you the headline in the body of the RSS item. This little gem will save me a lot of clicking and tabbing about from Google Reader. Thanks!

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:24:33 +0000

Rarst that’s pretty funny, I never discovered that button. Well, then imagine there was not such a button at Nirsoft, hehe.

Iampriteshdesai, yes you’ve been one of the buggers^^

I’m not selecting the ads that are displayed. The new layout for the ads on the other hand has increased my revenue tremendously.

By: iampriteshdesai

iampriteshdesai — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:59:57 +0000

P.S.: You can use Google reader to do the same thing easily. Just set Google reader as your primary way for web feeds. Now go to any such page and if feed is available click on the Rss icon on FF3 if it isn’t there, go to Google reader page and click on Add subscriptions, thats it.
Also why did you have to add those Simply marry adds there at that place? Plz remove it. Last location for ads was better. That ad removes all beauty of the page.

By: iampriteshdesai

iampriteshdesai — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:57:22 +0000

I was one of ‘those’ users

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:54:43 +0000

…….Sorry to ruin party but Nirsoft has RSS feed. You even had its icon captured on site screnshots (rectangular XML one).

I tried Dapper in the past but couldn’t make it work, it kept stucking on some of numerous steps. I am using two other scraper services want to do post on them in my blog.

Might try Dapper again because lately some good scrapers went payware or made limits harsher for free users.