May 08 2006
Creating an RSS feed online in just a few clicks
Ponyfish allows one to create an RSS feed for any page in just a few clicks.
You paste the URL of the page you’d like to create a feed for. The page is shown to you. You then click on links that you want to have in the RSS feed, and Ponyfish creates a URL pattern that matches those, which is then used to build an RSS feed.
I tried it on Robert Gil’s photo site. In a few clicks, and after having tweaked the pattern slightly (e.g. the pattern for dates was
that I generalized), I obtained an RSS feed for it. The problem I found is that, as the link is an an 2006-05-0*img tag, the title of each entry is the URL of the thumbnail for each gallery (e.g. http://lockuhomm.free.fr/MICKEY%203D/PARIS%20-%20Zenith%20-%202006-05-03/vignette/2006-05-03-0184.gif
) instead of the name of the gallery itself (MICKEY 3D
). I suspect that for most sites, titles of links will be more meaningful than this.
