RssDistiller: vital tool for Radio Users.
Last time I checked out RssDistiller from evectors I wasn't really into RSS very much. It was just after I started using Radio and, frankly, I was more interested in messing around with it and what it could do. What did I care about feeds? Also creating patterns to distill sites is a bit of an art, who has the time?
Well of course I'm a little older and wiser now. RSS has grown to be very important to my thinking and to how I think business should be done. So important that tools to get non-RSS delivered content into feeds are vitally important. Of course, this is exactly what RssDistiller does.
To create a feed from a website you point RssDistiller at the site and specify patterns marking the start and end of the areas RssDistiller should look at, and then the start and end of each "item" it should create. RssDistiller will then turn that into a valid feed.
For example the following patterns are how i configure a feed for a website that I use:
- ignore text before: <body
- ignore text after: </body
- start pattern: <p>
- end pattern: </p><br />
- item template: ##text##
fiddly, but worth it.
RssDistiller is definitely worth checking out. [Curiouser and curiouser!]
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