A reader just sent me a comment looking for a tutorial on how to add RSS to a weblog. I saw from his URL that he is a Xanga user (The Populist), so I went to the Xanga site looking for info about RSS or syndication support and didn’t find any. Does Xanga offer RSS in its basic or premium service?
INSTANT UPDATE: Looks like there is RSS support. To find the RSS feed for a Xanga site, just replace home.aspx with rss.aspx in the URL. So, for example, here is The Populist’s RSS feed.
Does Xanga offer RSS?
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10 responses to “Does Xanga offer RSS?”
Wow! That was fast.
Thanks for the RSS feed, now what do I do with it?
I came up on your tip through a google search. Thanks for the info : now that I can bypass the obnoxious Xanga ads and view their blogs in my aggregator, a whole new realm opens up :-p
Kudos !
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i also came across your site from google. THANK YOU for this info.
whew. you’re on fire from google for the search “rss xanga”. thanks for the info!
wow, thats great thanks. I found this on Xanga Addons.
Xanga’s RSS feeds
Christina Crumlish’s post Does Xanga offer RSS? @ Radio Free Blogistan was the first link when I Googled rss xanga. Now I can get updates of my sister’s Xanga blog without having to actually try to read her blog….
I wrote a little PHP script that converts Xanga’s RSS feeds into better-formed XML, if you’re having trouble viewing them in your feed reader (for instance, Firefox‘s livebookmarks). A working implementation of it can be used at http://www.ephemeraleuphoria.com/xanga/rss.php?INSERTNAMEHERE [obviously inserting someone’s Xanga name in the appropriate place].
Excellent work, Michael!
okay, here is a small program that takes advantage of the RSS xanga feed. Not sure how useful it is, but for what its worth, here is the link in case anybody is interested:
http://www.geocities.com/xangastalker/
I wrote a similar script back in September that corrects the formatting of Xanga RSS so that it works with aggregators such as NetNewsWire.
Works similarly:
http://www.joshstaiger.org/XangaRssFixer.pl?user=XANGAUSERNAME
In addition, you get a simple front-end UI if you just go to:
http://www.joshstaiger.org/XangaRssFixer.pl
It’s written in Perl and the code is freely available under the MIT license.
A little documentation is available here:
http://www.joshstaiger.org/archives/2004/09/xanga_rss_fixer.html
Micheal Huynh also has a PHP port:
http://www.mikexstudios.com/archives/2004/10/03/xanga-rss-fixer/