HACKER Q&A
📣 ildix

How can I create an RSS feed for any website/url?


I've been using feedly.com to track websites and curate content for a newsletter. Certain websites that used to offer public RSS feeds no longer have them, two quick examples: https://genius.com/articles + https://daily.bandcamp.com/latest.

Feedly says they are not in the business of creating RSS feeds, only plugging them into their reader.

Im wondering if there are any good free/reasonably priced solutions for being able to create RSS Feeds of urls that do not offer them?

It seems to me that the web is becoming increasingly private, with devs purposely disabling RSS feeds or making it hard to create them for their web pages. Would love to hear thoughts on this topic.


  👤 hopesthoughts Accepted Answer ✓
There are 2 services I use. feedfry.com and rss.app. RSS.app is the paid one, and feedfry you can use for free if you don't sign up with an account.

👤 rsscircus
https://feed43.com/ : a bit technical but the free version is sufficient for most sites

All other solutions are quite limited in their free version (5 news per day and feed deleted if nothing happens during 1 week)... and quite expensive in their paid version. FetchRSS Feedity Feed Creator

This last one have a inexpensive "to host" version.


👤 rsscircus
If ever you read french, here is my tuto on Feed43 https://rsscircus.com/transformer-une-page-dactualites-en-fi...

👤 datashaman
Syndicating someone else's content without their permission seems dodgy, if not illegal.