Awhile back I linked to
Atomibulator, a web
service that will give you an Atom feed for any web site, even those that don't easily lend themselves to feeds. At the
time I called it "a bit crufty," and it still is.
Feed43 is a similar
service, but the execution is far superior. Feed43 lets you do advanced screen-scraping on any web page, meaning you
can get only the information you're interested in whenever it's updated. Be warned, however: This is not for those who
are afraid of HTML. To create a feed with Feed43, you have to tell it which parts of the HTML source to look for and
how to use it. It's very powerful, but not for the lazy. If you want to see what's involved in creating a new feed, the
Feed43 blog has a couple tutorials, including one that shows how to get a feed
for the weather from Weather.com. Right now Feed43 is in private beta, but I signed up and got an invite about 20
minutes later.
Tags: aggregator, feed43, rss
