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May 20, 2005

RSS: filter and re-mix

Filed under: General, rss, newsmaster, tools, search

Here are some ways you can maniuplate feeds to only receive the content you want to receive (helps with information overload).
Sometimes you only like some of the content coming from a feed but you don’t want to unsubscribe…a way to alleviate this situation is to subscribe to a category feed if available, otherwise make your own with the tools below, or make a search term feed for that particular website or weblog.

Also below are some ways to re-mix feeds (merge feeds into one mega-feed) so all your content is streamlined into the one topic-based feed…some tools also can filter for search terms.
This inturn can be re-syndicated…great newsmastering tools for developing topic portals.

MAKE A SEARCH FEED
MAKE A LINK SEARCH FEED
MAKE A SITE SEARCH FEED (another version of a native feed)
MAKE A SEARCH TERM FEED WITHIN A SITE SEARCH (filter)
MAKE A CATEGORY FEED
MAKE A CATEGORY FEED WITHIN A SITE SEARCH (category feed for your blog)
MAKE A CATEGORY FEED WITHIN A SITE SEARCH WITH A SEARCH TERM
MAKE A RELATED FEED (related articles to your blog)
MAKE AN OPML SEARCH FEED
MAKE A RE-MIX FEED (splice and/or filter)

MAKE A SEARCH FEED

Eg. using RocketNews [RSS]

Blogs

Web

News

Groups

Social Bookmarks

Zniff - sort by time
Gataga [ADDED 20/06/05]

Tools

talkdigger (rss engine spliced) [ADDED 19/08/05]
Kebberfegg (meta-search) [ADDED 7/10/05]

MAKE A LINK SEARCH FEED

Eg. using Blogpulse [RSS]

Blogs

Web

News

Groups

PubSub – Groups (url:)

Social Bookmarks

Not available as an RSS feed in Furl, openBM, CiteULike.
Not sure about others, such as Simpy, Spurl, etc..

Tools

talkdigger (rss engine spliced) [ADDED 19/08/05]

MAKE A SITE SEARCH FEED (another version of the native feed)
Note: use OR or | where available for multiple sites

Why do this…if you already offer a full-text RSS feed, generate one of these feeds to also offer an excerpt RSS feed.

Eg. using Feedster [RSS]

Blogs

Web

News

PubSub – pr (source:)
Yahoo! News (site:, or inurl:) this is broken
Topix (source:)

Groups

PubSub – groups (source:)

Tools

also see remix section below

MAKE A SEARCH TERM FEED WITHIN A SITE SEARCH (filter)

Eg. using MSN [RSS]

RSS Readers

Bloglines (search my subscriptions) it has to be the only feed in your aggregator
Feedmarker
Web RSS Reader

There are probably many other RSS readers with this feature, I wonder how many can search in just one RSS feed.

Blogs

Web

News

Groups

PubSub – groups (source:, plus the search term)

Tools

ReFilter (filter only) [ADDED 20/07/05]
FeedShake (splice & filter) [ADDED 25/07/05]
Feed Digest (splice/filter/re-syndicate) [ADDED 5/08/05]…see more
Blogdigger groups (splice & filter)

MAKE A CATEGORY FEED

Eg. using Blogdigger [RSS]

Blogs

Blogdigger (subject:)
Technorati Tags [ADDED 16/06/05]
IceRocket Tags [ADDED 20/07/05]

News

Topix (cat:)

MAKE A CATEGORY FEED WITHIN A SITE SEARCH (category feed for your blog)

Eg. using Blogdigger [RSS]

Blogs

For Blogdigger you can use blogID: instead of author:, and for IceRocket you can use +blogId: instead of author:
To find your blogID on both engines just do an author: search on IceRocket, and a site: search on Blogdigger, then on one of the results from that author click on focus, blogID is more unique than author as many people could have the same author name.

News

Yahoo! News (advanced search) this is broken
Topix (source:, together with cat:)

This is like making an RSS feed for a category in your blog (use the OR function to make a feed of multiple categories within your blog)

A more manual approach is to bookmark every post in a social bookmark manager with the tags labelled the same as your blog categories…the tag RSS feeds can be used as your blog category RSS feeds (del.icio.us allows you to combine categories)

MAKE A CATEGORY FEED WITHIN A SITE SEARCH WITH A SEARCH TERM

Eg. using Topix [RSS]

Blogs

News

Yahoo! News (advanced search) this is broken
Topix (source:, together with cat:, plus the search term)

Eg. using Findory - blogs [RSS]

MAKE AN OPML SEARCH FEED

Eg. using Feedster [RSS]

Feedster (OPML search)
Kebberfegg (meta-search)[ADDED 7/10/05]

MAKE A RE-MIX FEED (splice and/or filter)

Feed Digest (splice/filter/duplicates/re-syndicate) [ADDED 5/08/05]…see more
RSS Mix (splice/view)
Blogdigger groups (splice/filter/view)
Feedmarker (splice)
FeedJumbler (splice)
Feedburner (splice)
FeedCombine (splice) [ADDED 20/06/05]
Ufeed (splice del.icio.us, blog feed, and flickr feed) [ADDED 28/06/05]
ReFilter (filter) [ADDED 20/07/05]
FeedShake (splice/filter) [ADDED 25/07/05]
rssWatcher (filter) [ADDED 12/08/05]
feedcatch (rss archive) [ADDED 15/08/05]
talkdigger (rss engine spliced) [ADDED 19/08/05]
BlogSieve (splice/filter) [ADDED 29/08/05]
Feed Findings (splice/filter) [ADDED 29/08/05]
Frankenfeed (splice) [ADDED 12/10/05]
Rojo (splice) [ADDED 14/10/05]
KickRSS (splice/view) [ADDED 14/10/05]
aggRSSive (folksonomy for feeds and spliced feeds/view) [ADDED 20/10/05]
MySyndicaat (splice/filter/view/duplicates) [ADDED 13/1/06]
FEEDblendr (splice) [ADDED 22/02/06]
feedpile (splice/view) [ADDED 22/02/06]
Suprglu (splice/view) [ADDED 22/02/06]
Peoplefeeds (splice personal feeds/view) [ADDED 22/02/06]
Bozpages (splice/3 views) [ADDED 22/02/06]
FeedMix (splice/install) [ADDED 10/03/06]
Feed Sifter (filter) [ADDED 22/03/06]
Feed Rinse (filter…also by tag, author, etc…) [ADDED 24/03/06]
FeedMix (splice…also create and scrape feeds) [ADDED 30/03/06]
Kinja (splice/view/opml) [ADDED 11/04/06]
Feedbite (splice/filter/view/tags/opml) [ADDED 14/04/06]
Atiki (splice/filter/view) [ADDED 14/04/06]
RSS Distiller (splice/install/view) [ADDED 18/04/06]
Ziki (splice personal feeds/view) [ADDED 24/04/06]
Pulverati (splice/filter/view/tags/) [ADDED 1/05/06]
Feed Collectors (splice/filter/view/tags/opml) [ADDED 1/05/06]
xFruits (splice/view/tags/mobile/email…and more) [ADDED 2/06/06]
RSSmesh (splice) [ADDED 22/08/06]
Rasasa [ADDED 27/12/06]
ZapTxt [ADDED 27/12/06]
Blastfeed [ADDED 27/12/06]
Advanced RSS Mixer [ADDED 19/02/07]
Turtilla [ADDED 16/05/07]
RSS Mixer [ADDED 30/07/07]
aideRSS> [ADDED 24/08/07]
Also checkout the lifestream services eg. afeeda [ADDED 30/07/07]

Also know as; blending, splicing, compilation, synthetic, meta…feeds.

Note: Google seems to be covering blog content.

Eg. site:libraryclips.blogsome.com

Using link: only returns results from the blog in question instead of other blogs (isn’t meant to show who is linking to you).

Check out, Re-syndication: sidebar updates and more

Also see the great list from 3spots, Search Engine RSS generators.

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Profile - FeedShake

Company: FeedShake

Launched: July 21, 2005 (estimated)
What is it?
FeedShake is a website that creates a single RSS feed from multiple RSS feeds. You can also filter out posts that contain specified keywords, and/or filter in posts only if they c…

Trackback by TechCrunch — July 25, 2005 @ 6:42 am
Best content I ever seen. Huge amounts of live feeds, high payouts. Realy cool.

Comment by Anonymous — August 25, 2005 @ 9:03 pm
Sitedeals15 released

Second step in my SEO effort: since optimization alone doesn’t cut it, how about some linkable “Sitedeals15 released” content…
If you want to follow the top links on Digg via RSS, you’ll notice that the RSS feeds do not contai…

Trackback by Notes, links and conversation — March 15, 2006 @ 10:53 am
:D Great article. I like Feed Mix (http://www.extralabs.net/feed-mix.htm) too.

Also, i know very userful tool for creating and editing RSS feeds: Feed Editor

Comment by Dmitry — March 15, 2006 @ 7:56 pm
http://www.whonu.com/ has a scecial rss generator button.

Comment by 3spots — May 12, 2006 @ 9:25 am
FeedForAll has an RSS directory http://www.feedforall.com/scripts-directory.htm that has a number of different scripts. One RSSmesh allows for merging of scripts. They also have rss2html for displaying feeds as HTML. And a script to prepublish.
HTH

Comment by J. T. — May 19, 2006 @ 7:42 pm
http://www.atiki.com/ is a social mixer.

Comment by 3spots — May 24, 2006 @ 2:50 pm
RSS re-mixer

Comment by Mike — July 31, 2006 @ 1:28 am
Hi There,

Would you please add the following site to your list of filter sites? http://www.filtermyrss.com

Nice thing here is you can view the feed before and after the filter. Easy to use and free with no login/password requirements.

Much Thanks,
Greg
filtermyrss.com

Comment by gmo — November 6, 2007 @ 4:03 am
New Bayesian filter for RSS

I would like to suggest a great new site that organizes your RSS feeds.
It employs a Bayesian filter applied to RSS feeds where you can train the filter what you like and
what you don’t like based upon examples. It’s free, try it at www.filteredrss.com.

Comment by web man — July 12, 2008 @ 6:41 pm

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