How to Create RSS Content Feeds Out of HTML Pages

This technique of grabbing RSS feeds it great for creating a list of affiliate links, auto loading blog content, or drip feeding content into your twitter account. This can be done using a cool web app called Dapper.

Let’s say we want to create a category of link on a key word. Well first we’ll go to the dapper website and click create a new dap. This will take us to the Dapp Factory. In the URL field type www.google.com, check the RSS feed, and click next. In the search field we would type in “site:trileafdesigns.com/blog “web design” ” then click search. Now click on the more search tools link, and then click on the past month. This now gives us automatically updated links that have to do with web design from the TriLeaf blog website posted in the last month. At the top of the page click on add as sample page, next scroll to the bottom and click on the link to page two of the each result and add that as another sample page. You can add as many pages as you like in this fashion, and when you are done click next.

Now we must select what content we would like to be displayed in the RSS feed. When you hover over an item in the webpage view an orange box appears to outline selectable content, and we can click to select and deselect content. Now we want the title, date published, and summary in our feed. All we have to do is first click on the titles, making sure they’re all selected, and click save field at the bottom and give it a reference name in the box that pops up. For date and summary we do a similar operation, selecting the appropriate text and saving the field.

Now click next to see a preview of the content you selected, notice how to title links directly to the webpage where that blog is located which is great for search engine optimization, and when your satisfied click next. You’ll now have to sign in, or signup if you don’t have an account (it’s free to signup), then it asks you to give a name to the new feed and at the bottom click to make it a private feed (so only you can access it) and click save. Now if you copy and paste the link into your Brower you can see for yourself you have a link to a RSS feed about web design on the TriLeaf Blogs. Try it out now, and get your feed on.

By – Le-Andris Daniel