Incorporating RSS feeds into your website
2006 April 5
At Computers in Libraries someone asked me about scripts that would allow you to incorporate RSS feeds into web pages. I have done this in the past using server-side scripting. However, this isn’t an option for everyone. Many people don’t have the skills to do this. I knew that it was also possible to do this with Javascript and had FURLed some things about this in the past. Here are a few of the sites I found that will help you do this.
- Feed to Javascript – http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/
- RSS Digest – http://www.bigbold.com/rssdigest/
- RSS to Javascript – http://rss-to-javascript.com/
These are just a few examples there are others out there as well. The point is that it has become REALLY easy to accomplish this. So try it out on your blog or your library’s website
You can find some more resources for this at:
http://allrss.com/rssparsers.html
They should have attended my Post Conference on this exact topic ;-)
The PPT file for said presentation can be found at http://travelinlibrarian.info/presentations/
Do you know of a way to incorporate this into html sites and not using a javascript? From my understanding, the search engines do not read java script and therefore it doesn’t appear like content on your site.
Thanks
The only other way to do it is using server side scripting (PHP, ASP, Coldfusion, etc) to process the RSS feed and reformat. But you need to have knowledge of one of these languages to do this.