RSS Feed from static HTML site

[SL20]

Does anybody know what the easiest way to do this is?

 

[HeXd]

Creating an RSS feed for a static site shouldn't be too hard. It's just an XML file with a few elements for each link. Hence you can either write it by hand in notepad, etc or use an XML editor. The main problem would be keeping it updated I guess, but being a static site that should be less of an issue in itself.

http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification <--- that should give you the basics for the RSS file as well as some examples.

You might want to throw it into an XML validator or something similar before going live with it to be safe though.

Edit: One of these automatic methods also might work - http://www.rss-specifications.com/create-rss-feed.htm

 

[Seeyou]

Take a look here:

http://profy.com/2007/09/30/7-tools-to-make-an-rss-feed-of-any-website/

That's just the first result from a google search, there are lots of free services that do it - look around. There was an awesome one I used a couple of years back that let you select elements from a page visually and create your feed based on the selections, but I can't for the life of me remember the URL. Will reply if it comes back to me.

 

[Raithlin]

I do this for a newsletter section - it's simple enough to do by hand, although you have to *remember* to do it...

 

[Seeyou]

You can also use YQL - you'll just have to write the xpath query yourself: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/#h=desc html