Combine multiple RSS feeds into one

[Spock]

Hi folks

I have been searching for a way to grab the feeds of several sites and bring them into a single feed that can be displayed on a separate site. It will be used as a list of relevant news items in a sidebar.

I found a few methods but none of them were perfect ie. could not style the output or was just too complex for my brain! It needs to give me the code to add in html.

Does anyone know of an easy method to do this?

Thanks

 

[NetwiseHosting]

So are you looking for a third party RSS feed aggregator to collect all your relevant feeds online for you to browse, like BlogLines or Google Reader?

Or are you looking to collect feeds to use on your own site? I assume it to be the later.

 

[AndrewUK]

They is easily done with yahoo pipes. I think google has their own solution also, but I've only used yahoo pipes.

You can bring in different rss feeds, sort them and great a new rss feed. Yahoo pipes uses a flow chart type system and is very easy to use. It is a very powerful system.

 

[Spock]

Or are you looking to collect feeds to use on your own site? I assume it to be the later.

Yes looking to add combined feed onto another site.

They is easily done with yahoo pipes. I think google has their own solution also, but I've only used yahoo pipes.

You can bring in different rss feeds, sort them and great a new rss feed. Yahoo pipes uses a flow chart type system and is very easy to use. It is a very powerful system.

Ok but how do I then display this new feed on another site?

Thanks

 

[AndrewUK]

That all depends on the site you've setup. For instance if it's a wordpress blog you can easily add it via the widgets.

Worth researching the available modules for a content management system if your using one. They could be one available which just requires you to add the new rss feed to a module and then configure settings for output. i.e. display last five rss items etc.

If on a static website you could provide the rss feed to google's feedburner service and then use their buzzboost feature, which I believe gives you javascript to then paste in your webpage. Never used this feature though, just read about it.

I'm sure there are many other free alternate solutions available also.

Best of luck

 

[Spock]

Thanks folks. I have managed to sort this by using Yahoo Pipes to bring the feeds into one feed (or pipe!). Then I added it to feedburner and used the buzzboost to get the output code to add to the site in question. This also (with a little searching) allows for css formatting.

Works a treat now

Cheers