RSS Tools
Below is a collection of RSS related Tools and resources I have discovered. A few are still listed on my Getting Started with RSS page, but only the ones that regular (non-power) users might actually find useful.
User Friendly Tools
- Kill The Newsletter - Turn an email newsletter into an RSS feed
- Open RSS - A third-party service that creates feeds for many websites that don't already have them. (Note: OpenRSS may block you because of strict guidelines they have about spacing out requests, and many apps do not keep to those guidelines. For this reason, I don't really recommend them.)
- RSSLookup.com - Helps find feeds on websites
Niche Tools/Resources for Users
- Pow RSS - Features feeds from independent websites and blogs
- LettRSS - Syndicates public domain books via RSS (the website owner chooses the book. There is only one book at a time, I believe)
For Power Users
- rss-bridge.org - provides feeds for websites that don't have them
- mashups.io - Paid service to build custom RSS feeds by filtering and merging from existing feed sources.
- Lighthouse - A freemium RSS Reader that has content-curation and filtering tools built in. They also have a feed finder, an email newsletter to RSS tool and a blogroll editor (though i don't actually know what the blogroll editor does)
- SubToMe - Honestly, I don't understand what it does
Non-Tool Resources and Articles
- AboutFeeds.com - A website for introducing people to feed readers
- bad feed reader behavoirs by Rachel By The Bay
- My Articles - Getting Started w/ RSS, Advocating for RSS, supporting RSS on your website, and more.
For Developers
- Feed Maker - Generate an RSS Feed from any website, based on CSS selectors
- Everyone's a Syndicate - Pulls articles from a list of RSS feeds and then display them on your own website.
- RSS Bridge - A tool for developers to create RSS feeds from websites that don't have them.
- madiele/vod2pod-rss - converts YouTube or Twitch Channel into an RSS feed of audio podcasts
- The Old reader - Old Reader is a service that provides an API that feed reader apps can use. There are a bunch of pre-existing apps, but my understanding is that this service makes it easier to develop a new feed reader app.
Email reed [at] reedybear [dot] com to suggest a tool for this list. I check my email every 2 weeks or so. You can tell me about tools you've made, or tools you've found.