Feed Tools

Parsers

• node-feedparser by Dan MacTough (Javascript/nodejs) - Robust RSS, Atom, and RDF feed parsing in Node.js
  • NPM package page
  • feedParserDemo - A demo of Dan MacTough’s feedparser package for Node.
• feedparser - (Python) Universal feed parser, handles RSS 0.9x, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, CDF, Atom 0.3, and Atom 1.0 feeds
• RSSPHP - RSS_PHP is a RSS Parser and XML Parser for PHP 5+, utilising the DOM to parse any valid XML Document including RSS, with provisional support for ATOM feeds.
• XML::RSS::Parser - (Perl) lightweight liberal parser of RSS feeds

Validators

• Feed Validator - validates RSS and Atom feeds

Feed Reader Tools

• reader - JavaScript package for feed reading and aggregating
  • NPM package page

Feed generation tools/services

• RSS 2 HTML - offers an easy way to embed RSS feeds in web pages
• IFTTT - Provides tools to generate RSS feeds in response to triggers
  • Tutorial on using IFTTT to monitor other RSS feeds and events to create feeds
  • IFTTT page on using the RSS Feed service in IFTTT
• Zapier - Provides tools to generate RSS feeds in response to triggers
  • How to get started with RSS on Zapier
  • How to filter, Combine and Customize RSS feeds
• TweetsToRss - A node.js app that periodically reads a Twitter account and generates an RSS feed from it.
• Granary - Fetches and converts data between social networks, HTML and JSON with microformats2, ActivityStreams 1 and 2, Atom, RSS, JSON Feed, and more.
• Twitter to RSS PHP Script - Script by Chris Hardie, see his blog post for more info

Feed subscription tools

• OPML - Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) is a common format for storing feed subscription lists and import/export of lists from one tool to another

Ways to display feeds in public

• River5
  • Display from native app, see http://river5.scripting.com/
  • Single page web app - can display the contents of a single river of news generated by River5
    • Instructions for creating the single page web app