More and more internet users are getting familiar with the concept of RSS feeds and its uses. This has resulted in number of online and offline services to help in better RSS Management. Feedburner and Feeblitz lead the way in RSS Management services.
Many a times you want to read content from different sources. While there are tools to filter RSS feed content, tools to mix, blend and Mash-up multiple RSS feeds are more important. They help you grab multiple RSS feeds and create a single customized RSS feed. Here are 10 tools worth checking out…
1. RSS Mixer -Just enter the multiple RSS feed URLs and title for the resultant feed and click on Mix it button. You will get RSS feed mixed up of all the individual RSS feeds. You can use resultant RSS feed in number of formats like: Apple Dashboard Widget, Web Widget to embed in a webpage, an iPhone formatted version of your mix etc.
2. FeedBlendr -Very easy to use online service for blending or combining of multiple feed. Enter the URLs of feeds that you want to combine and Click on Blend Your Feed button. No Registration or download is required to blend feeds. You get output in the form of: RSS/Atom output, HTML link, (.m) link, OPML output and Javascript code. Read More about FeedBlendr…
3. FeedTwister - It allows you to mix your favorite feeds and show their latest posts on your website.Create as many lists of feeds as you want and add up to 50 feeds per list. You can also assign an image to each feed and order posts by date or title. Limit the posts shown and establish a posts per source maximum.
4. BlogSieve -It is a free web-based tool that creates new feeds by filtering, merging and sorting existing feeds. The BlogSieve engine accepts virtually every (valid) feed format, processed results are then exported into any feed format you choose.
5. RSSMesh -The rssMesh.php script allows you to produce an RSS feed by taking the latest items from multiple feeds. The RSSmesh configuration is controlled by a configuration file for each feed to be produced.
6. RSS Mix - Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed. Mix up any feed of your choice using easy web based interface. To create a new RSS Mix, copy and paste the URLs of the existing source feeds into the box below and hit Create.
7. BlastFeed -It is an on-line service that lets you aggregate, remix and filter RSS feeds. And Blastfeed can immediately notify you of any results of such filtering. Blastfeed will only collect items that match your criteria in each feed. The results will be amalgamated into a single file and sent to you by email, Instant Messaging or as a new RSS feed, when and where you want it.
8. Feed Combine - As the name suggests, it allows you to combine feeds in a seamless manner. It your instant mashed-up feed using Feed Combine.
9. FrankenFeed -It is an open source application written using Ruby on Rails. This application can merge multiple RSS or ATOM feeds (xml) into a single master feed. The idea is to allow a power RSS or ATOM user to manage a single feed for a novice RSS or ATOM user.
10. Yahoo Pipes - Saving best for the last. Problem with these online feed blenders is – they come and go. Yahoo Pipes is the most stable option for simple reason, it is from YAHOO! It can be bit confusing for a newbie, however once you get hold of things – it works like charm.
Do you know any other RSS combiners, mixers and mashers? Please share with us by adding a comment.
Very informative post, Keep good job doing.
Yes, yahoo pipes is great when it’s finally working, and has been reliable for me for months, but creating a new pipe and getting it working is always a hassle, especially when you just want something simple.
If you edit an existing pipe it takes ages for the feed changes to trickle through, so much so that I always clone a pipe if I want to make changes, it’s the only way to make sure the changes stick properly (though it’s possible I suppose that the problem is the app on my end, not pipes).
wow it is good because this mixing help a person for communication and we can communication
I find Yahoo Pipes a bit of a challenge for me as I am not a techie. RSSMix and similar software easier to use and hence to acheive better results.
Is there a feed composer for audio and video podcasts? Yahoo pipes fails to recognize podcasts. Many other online services don’t advertise podcast support. I assume they don’t. Any ideas?
Nice list of ways to combine feeds. To find feeds to combine, you can use Alltop: alltop.com/all though that’s not our preferred use of the site.
We cover 700 topics with 40,000 feeds at this point.
Thanks for consolidating the list of such services. I noticed most of them are not in action, however I like Yahoo Pipes, it gives a great UI to prepare the feeds and provides so many options to generate desired output.
Regards,
Makarand Yadav
RSS2MYSQL should be included!
I don’t quite get that hype about Yahoo! Pipes. Sure, it has nice features, but way too often, I find that it just doesn’t work… So, no, I certainly would say that Y!P is the way to NOT go.
BTW: Does anyone know of a more workable, usable alternative to Yahoo! Pipes?
BTW2: While we’re at not working: RSSMix.com is also not so good…
Created a “mix”, containing, among other feeds, http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=alexs77 and RSSMix wrongly sets the link attribute of entries from this feed to the URL of the first icon/image… 
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Huh? No mention of Planet Planet?
http://www.planetplanet.org/
Completely open-source, easy to customize, and there’s no third party service involved!
Yahoo! Pipes is the way to go.
Anybody mentioned Feed Salon ?
http://feedsalon.com/
Works very well for me…
I just want to add http://www.composite-rss.com to the otherwise nice list. This is a free webbased RSS service that lets users search multiple feeds for multiple keywords. It then creates one composite RSS feed from the results.
Thanks
As you said: “…Problem with these online feed blenders is – they come and go…”. And you have to manually establish the combination configuration, etc.
So why not combine on the client site? Just use JetBrains “Omea Reader” (http://www.jetbrains.com/omea/reader/) which enables hierarchical structuring of feeds in folders. If you click on a folder instead of a single feed, you get a combined listing of all feeds contained in that folder. It even goes recursively into subfolders according to the level of combination you want to apply.
That’s it!
You may want take another look at RSS Mixer. The alpha version is now available and is vastly improved from the prototype.
Great list, but why “Save the best till last”? – stick it at the top. Going to Yahoo Pipes first would have saved me loads of time.
You can also make use of Google Reader to create and publish a combined feed. The procedure to create such a feed is a little arcane. I’ve managed to create one for my blogs, but I’m not sure if I could repeat the trick. ïŠ Once created, you have options to view public page, email a link, add a clip to your site and add a blogroll to your site. And it’s run by Google, so it’s pretty robust and you can expect it to still be around for a long time to come.
Apart from the setup, my only whinge was the long URLs it creates for you public pages and feeds.
Thanks for the list of rss feeds.
Feedblendr is off the web.
you might want to add http://feed.informer.com to your list.
cheers
Well, I couldn’t stand not to read my service name among these great services, so here I am
Even though I don’t consider Feedoor.com as a feed mixing tool only, still feed mixing is on of it’s best features
Hope you will like Feedoor
Thanks
Thanks for the Yahoo! pipes tip! It is indeed not the most simple tool around, but yet a very powerful one!
Once you’ve combined a bunch of feeds, you might want to filter them to cut down the volume and automatically remove posts you don’t care about. I couldn’t find a good tool to do this, so I rolled my own. You can find it at http://www.rssninja.com if you want to give it a go.
Cool tools! You might also want to checkout Feedity – http://feedity.com – a sleek tool to create custom RSS feeds from virtually any webpage. I use it often so thought I’d share. Chao