filtering rss feeds
Today i finally decided i need to get less information. I’m using google rss reader which is great, and eliminates the need to check web sites for news (well, rss does this, any rss reader will do the job). Sadly, it’s not enough. Having a lot of feeds to which I’m subscribed i still get s lot of information which i have to skip manually or to read. The solution (at least partial) is to filter the feeds.
So, some googling brought me to feedshake. There’s no link here because it just doesn’t work. While it’s possible to add a feed and define filtering predicates, the resulting rss is not created, the error is something like (clearly a bug on the site):
<br /> <b>Warning</b>: require(feed_parser.php) [<a href=‘function.require’>function.require</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <b>/home/content/j/u/n/jungie/html/feedshakev1/feedop.php5</b> on line <b>18</b><br /> <br /> <b>Fatal error</b>: require() [<a href=‘function.require’>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required ‘feed_parser.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php’) in <b>/home/content/j/u/n/jungie/html/feedshakev1/feedop.php5</b> on line <b>18</b><br />
So, my next option was feedrinse, which works great. Add feeds (for every feed it’s possible to define some filtering), combine feeds into channels (optionally, up to 5) and then just use them. Simple and beautiful.
But i knew there were more to it. Yahoo pipes. Here the filtering is limitless in complexity. If you are not familiar with pipes, there are tutorials out there, i use pipes in linux command line all the time.
So currently i have two test feeds, one from feedrinse and other from in parallel with the unfiltered feeds, I’ll wait till a match will appear and than delete the unfiltered feeds.
The summary is: use feedrinse for simple filtering and Yahoo pipes for complex ones.
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