RSS Tutorial

By Mark Nottingham
2007-12-23


Feed Tools

This is an incomplete list of tools for creating feeds and checking them to make sure that you’ve done so correctly. Note that there are many more libraries that help parsing feeds; these haven’t been included here because this tutorial focuses on the Webmaster, not consumers of feeds.

• xpath2rss — Tool for scraping Web sites using XPath expressions (a method of selecting parts of HTML and XML documents).
• Site Summaries in XHTML — Online service (also available as an XSLT stylesheet) that uses hints in your HTML to generate a feed.
• myRSS — An online, third-party automated scraping service. Doesn’t require any special markup.
• RSS.py — Python library for generating and parsing RSS.
• ROME — Java library for parsing and generating RSS and Atom feeds, as well as translating between formats.
• XML::RSS — Perl module for generating and parsing RSS.
• Online Validator - Check your RSS 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds.

Tutorial Pages:
» Introducing RSS
» Choosing Content for Your Feeds
» Publishing Your Feed
» Telling People About Your Feed
» Format Versions and Modules
» Which Format Should I Choose?
» Tips for Generating Good Feeds
» Feed Tools
» More Information

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