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Calishat

RSSGizmos.com has had some tool problems for a while, but I kept forgetting about it until @musiciankate gave me a nudge (thanks fam!) I've fixed some of them and the site works a lot better.

rssgizmos.com/ is a set of web tools for creating, finding, and exploring feeds. The site is free, ad-free, and designed for desktop.

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rssgizmos.comRSS Gizmos -- Tools and Resources for Using RSS Feeds
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Calishat

Kebberfegg ( rssgizmos.com/kebber.html ) generates keyword-based feeds for eleven sources, including Bing, Google News, and WordPress.com .

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Kebberfegg at work. The screen shows a text box with the query "Dallas Mavericks." Underneath there are eleven checkboxes which when clicked will generate a keyword-based RSS feed. They include Bing, Google News, Reddit, and the U.S. Federal Register.
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Calishat

WikiRSS ( rssgizmos.com/wikirss.html ) lets you search for RSS feeds. Simple one-word searches are best here.

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WikiRSS at work. The query is NASA and a number of feeds are showing, including the Kepler Space Telescope and the NASA breaking news RSS feeds.
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Calishat

CountryFeed ( rssgizmos.com/countryfeed.html ) uses the power of the Bing location syntax to generate country specific RSS feeds and deliver them to you in an OPML file.

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The CountryFeed page. It's dominated by a set of checkboxes representing countries worldwide, with buttons letting users let entire continents' worth of countries at a time.
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Calishat

OPML File Maker ( rssgizmos.com/opmlmaker.html ) makes OPML files out of a list of RSS feeds you paste into a text box.

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rssgizmos.comTurn your RSS Feeds Into an OPML File
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Calishat

RSS Feed Previewer ( rssgizmos.com/rssviewer.html ) lets you take a quick look at an unformatted RSS feed.

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The RSS Feed Previewer at work. The ResearchBuzz feed has been fetched and is showing the latest items in the feed.
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Calishat

RSS Feed Freshness Checker ( rssgizmos.com/feedage.html ) lets you dump a bunch of RSS feed URLs and get an overview of each one. I use this when I'm trying to filter out inactive RSS from my potential new feeds.

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The RSS Feed Freshness Checker showing a bunch of feeds information. For each feed. The page shows the number of items, the oldest and most recent items, posting frequency, and the most popular category.
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Calishat

Bing News Query Checker ( rssgizmos.com/querytest.html ) lets you check three potential Bing News RSS feeds against each other.

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Calishat

RSSGizmos is free of ads, free to use and designed for desktop. There are still a few buggies here and there but I'm working on trying to mash them. I hope it's useful to you.

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Alan Levine

@researchbuzz These are all gold. And as many just get baffled at the first acronym people are missing out on not grokking OPML

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