The scenario I explore here is creating an RSS or Atom feed out of the list of
APIs here:
http://programmableweb.com/apis/directory
Here I apply two services to this problem. The first is a specialized feed-creation web site:
http://www.feedity.com/
You can use Feedity to generate an RSS feed:
http://feedity.com/?http://programmableweb.com/apis/directory%40%40%40CAT%40%40%406
The feed is a perfectly fine feed except for the ads embedded in the feed. You need to use
Pro (for-fee) level to get rid of the ads.
I used Openkapow.com??™s RoboMaker as a second approach to generate a feed. RoboMaker
is a desktop visual tool to create bots hosted on Openkapow.com to generate feeds and APIs
for web sites. In Chapter 11, I analyze RoboMaker and other tools that simplify mashup making.
Here, I simply point out the end product of the Openkapow.com bot that converts the list
of APIs into an RSS 2.0 feed:
http://service.openkapow.com/rdhyee/programmablewebapis.rss
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17. http://feedvalidator.org/docs/howto/install_and_run.html
18. http://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/soap
There is a small image for Openkapow.com in the feed but no advertisements buried in
the items themselves.
As you will see in the next section, being able to generate feeds for sites that don??™t have the
feeds you want enables you to use the many tools that accept feeds as input.
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