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Sites Don't have Feeds but I want to Subscribe?

by Intrepreneur
3 replies
Some big companies out there don't provide a feed on their press release or news pages and I need to subscribe to their updates.

What's the best way for me to ensure I can subscribe to thier updates via RSS even though they don't have it.

I'm using feedburner BTW.

Cheers.
#feeds #sites #subscribe
  • Profile picture of the author John Motson
    If they don't have RSS how can you subscribe?

    RSS is content rendered in a specific xml format - the sites need to provide this. If they don't they don't. It's not magic.

    John
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    • Profile picture of the author Bjarne Eldhuset
      According themselves, it seems Google reader now is able to set up feeds for websites that don't have feeds:
      Feeds make it easy to follow updates to all kinds of webpages, from blogs to news sites to Craigslist queries, but unfortunately not all pages on the web have feeds. Today we're rolling out a change in Google Reader that lets you create a custom feed to track changes on pages that don't have their own feed.

      These custom feeds are most useful if you want to be alerted whenever a specific page has been updated. For example, if you wanted to follow Google.org's latest products, just type "http://www.google.org/products.html" into Reader's "Add a subscription" field. Click "create a feed", and Reader will periodically visit the page and publish any significant changes it finds as items in a custom feed created just for that page.
      Source:
      Official Google Reader Blog: Follow changes to any website
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