Library clips

In a post a while back I was trying to figure out how to generate a search RSS feed from just one RSS feed.

Not sure if I can do this on Blogdigger groups.

When I turn only one feed on I can’t seem to search within just this one feed, therefore I can’t generate a search RSS feed.

Not sure if this is just a bug.

But as it turns out I can use the main Blogdigger search engine to search in just one RSS feed by using the “site:” prefix or the “blogID” prefix.

Here are some examples for my blog:

all my posts

site: libraryclips.blogsome.com
Here is the RSS feed (Wow, an alternate feed for my blog!)

free-text search for the term Spurl

site: libraryclips.blogsome.com spurl
Here is the RSS feed

search in a category

site:libraryclips.blogsome.com subject:furl
Here is the RSS feed (Category feeds for your blog)

Replace the blogID for the site prefix…find the blogID by hovering your mouse on the focus link (sits under each result)

I wonder if this works in other popular blog or RSS engines.

If Blogdigger doesn’t have the particular RSS feed you want to generate a search RSS feed from then you will have to submit it.

I’m not sure if Blogdigger is just for blog feeds or if they welcome any old RSS feed…I suppose this is the beauty of Blogdigger groups, as you can do what you want, it’s your group…only if it would work (hopefully it’s just a bug)

The cool thing about this is the you can put a Blogdigger search box on your blog to search just your blog…you’d have to put a search tips link to inform users of using the command searching for categories demonstrated above, unless you could put a drop-down menu of categories in your search box…how cool would that be!

NOTE: to generate a search RSS feed from just one RSS feed related to news, use Yahoo news (advanced search).

Eg. Put the source in the source field and search term in the search field or use the “inurl:” prefix (although I can only view all articles in this publication, I can’t put in a search term)

Thanks to the Do-It Yourself Librarian

ADDED 05/05/05: Feedster can also search within one feed, generating a refined feed.

Spurl is a social bookmarking manager similar to Furl. Zniff is a search engine for all the collective Spurl accounts.

Furl has a public version of single accounts (unless marked private by the account holder) so you can search an individual archive.
It also has a collective search engine of all the Furl accounts, but you have to search this from your own account.

What if you don’t have a Furl account (even though they are free!)

A way around this is to use Google:

inurl:furl.net/members trigon

in this example “trigon” is the search term

Although it doesn’t accept “phrase searching”…I tried to do a search for “tax and taxonomies” which is an article I have in my Furl archive, but it returned 2 hits from other Furl accounts that had both the words in the bookmark, but not as a phrase.

Another way is using the site search function:

site:furl.net/members trigon

Technorati tags and Tag Central both search Furl, but only for a tag and the contents within, they don’t search the full-text.

As mentioned by Blogdriverswaltz, Freetag is an application that enables you to create tags on an existing database. This extensible feature allows a database, website, OPAC to include tagging as a feature of their offerings. I wonder if any major sites have implemented this software, it would be good to compare the logs to see if the how often the tag clouds (a way to present the tags in a folksonomy of a website) are being used compared to the navigation features.