RSS feeds are not officially supported by Google Plus yet, that’s bad if you want to follow a specific user on the new social networking site. Sure, you could add the user to a circle to read all (public) messages on the Google Plus website, or visit the stream of that user directly to access the new messages.
Both options are not really that comfortable, especially if you do not hang out 24/7 on Google Plus. The alternative? You could try a service that turns a stream into an RSS feed.
Google Plus Feed is such a service. It is hosted at Appspot with barely any information, so take it with a grain of salt. Could be gone before you can blink with the eye.
It is fortunately dead easy to create an RSS feed for a Google Plus profile. All you need is the user’s Google profile ID and the url that you have to add it to to create the feed.
Just visit a user’s Google Profile on Google Plus to get the ID. You find it in the web address of that page, it is the only number there. I have highlighted the ID for you in the screenshot below.
The ID is also listed on your stream. Each user name is linking directly to the profile of that user. To get the id right-click on the name and select copy link location.
Now that you have got the ID you need to add it to the following url:
https://plusfeed2.appspot.com/
Just add it at the end and load the page. You get an RSS feed that you can subscribe to in your RSS feed reader of choice.
You can repeat the process for additional Google profile RSS feeds if you like. It it likely that Google plans to add RSS capabilities to the profile natively. For now, Plusfeed offers a fast way of creating feeds for Google Profiles.
Update: The Google Plus RSS Feeds service has been shut down by its developer. You find an alternative here: Use Dapper To Create RSS Feeds From Any Page, Including Google Plus Posts
Update 2: Plus Feeds is available under a different url again, you can access it here. Thanks Kim for letting me know about it.
Update 3: The second Plus Feed address has been disabled as well.
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https://plus.google.com/113077881874489337956 exists
and
http://plusfeed.appspot.com/113077881874489337956
says:
500 Server Error
list index out of range
Probably because there aren’t any public posts?
Well, I’m not sure about the Poster Martin but your advice worked a treat for me: I just posted a public post and voila the feed worked like a charm.
Thank you,
John
O nice man.. Cool info..
Worked a treat for me, even shared it on google+. thanks.
Thanks for sharing Shem.
As i experienced. Google automatically creates your RSS for your google plus profile. Open http://www.google.com/reader/ and try searching your profile with name.
Dude tell me how to add blogger feeds to google+
there’s no way to do it now. you need to post them manually
Thanks for sharing. That is new for me. I just set up my Google plus account. it takes time to become commonplace. I am too familiar with the ease of facebook
Worked a treat for me, even shared it on google+. thanks.
google plus good pages. :)
I wish to do the opposite, send an RSS feed to google plus as posts. Is there a GHack for that?
I have not found a program yet to automate that process.
Thanks for the response.
PlusFeed has shut down. Any alternatives? Thanks.
Lorelle, there is no service that I know of that is offering it to the public. I have found some php code snippets but nothing that it is working right out of the box without some coding first.
Update: I have written a tutorial on how to create Google Plus RSS Feeds with Dapper: http://www.ghacks.net/2011/09/02/use-dapper-to-create-rss-feeds-from-any-page-including-google-plus-posts/
If anyone is looking for an alternative, you can check out http://plu.sr
It has RSS feed and a mobile view of your Google Plus profile.
I created a replacement for it located here does the same thing but still work on getting more detailed on the data I use as Google really doesn’t have titles.
http://googleplusrss.nodester.com
JT
Thanks God, You Save My Time.,-Xelent
Looking forward to google releasing the API
They have release a public data one just a few days ago :) I am in the process of changing http://googleplusrss.nodester.com/ to use it.
try:
http://plus.gg
http://googleplusrss.nodester.com works better
it’s not the same thing. http://plus.gg doesn’t provide RSS feeds, it’s a simple url shortcut to http://plus.google.com
that’s all
Is there a way to generate an RSS feed from a circle on Google+?
Seconded
Google+ really a popular thread today.Its create challenges with other social media like facebook etc.
I am also a user of google+.Now a day every websites google+ likes are also most popular like facebook likes. Make new friends and connect your friends on google+
Thanks for sharing your Valued and unique knowledge with Us , i reach at your page through Google and v impressed the way you communicate in this page
Not working
Trying http://googleplusrss.nodester.com/
An easy and fully customizable widget for a google + feed is also available on www.widgplus.com
Hope this helps.
The one that was working up until a few weeks ago was http://plu.sr
According to the developer on Google+ they shut him down, you can see the official thread here:
https://plus.google.com/106294548712073255245/posts/ZPCV1ZLCVsF
Do you not like http://googleplusrss.nodester.com/ ?
But how do you get the clean stream of user’s activity? Or are you just parsing pure HTML???
https://plus.google.com/117603909224707079971
This does work great for one profile…I would like ot create a feed from a search on google plus….how do I do that?
That no longer work properly, and i don’t know what to do anymore.
Everyone with some linux skills could make his own Google plus rss feed server,
http://mpapec.tumblr.com/post/16019902885/rss-for-google-plus-one
Hi, I’m maintaining one over here too http://www.gplustorss.com/ (This one is downloadable in script format so you can run it on your own domain and not worry about downed or overworked services)
Hi
You can use this new service: http://gplusrss.com/
Just enter your Profile-ID, an API-Key and you get a link to you RSS-Feed for Google+.
And: it works ;-)
Nope, did not work