SimplePie, make your own RSS aggregator site

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Posted in » Scripts - by Ades on October 5th, 2007

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SimplePie is a code library, written in PHP, intended to make it easy for people to manage RSS and Atom feeds.

With SimplePie you can fetch any feeds and display them inside your website in any way you like. In order to work with SimplePie, you need to know at least some PHP programming. Here is a list of things you can do with SimplePie:

  • Only display items from the last 24 hours
  • Only display images from a feed
  • Geting a thumbnail from a YouTube feed
  • Displaying Google Calendar on your website
  • Sort multiple feeds by time and date and many more…

Can you make money with it?

Sure, you can create a website that fetches RSS from many blogs and display them all in one website, with different categories and options (i.e your own Adobe XML aggregator). For example you could create the Ultimate Money Making Site which would display all the latest posts of “make money online” blogs. You could make money with AdSense ads and other ad networks, integrating them into the content of the website.

Warning: Please make sure you get the owners’ permission if you want to list their RSS in your website. I certainly do not want my posts to be displayed on other website without my permission.

simplepie.org


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6 Responses to “SimplePie, make your own RSS aggregator site”

  1. By Robert on Oct 5, 2007

    There is also a Wordpress plugin called WP-O-matic (or something like that), that naturally works with wordpress. The beauty being that you can use all of the other WP plugins and templates.

  2. By Moses Francis on Oct 5, 2007

    Yes, agreed with Robert, using the WordPress platform is better, with some good plugins one could create a site like http://footyfilter.com

  3. By Ryan Parman on Oct 6, 2007

    WP-o-Matic is built on top of SimplePie. It applies a WordPress-compatible user interface to the powerful SimplePie feed processing backend.

  4. By Ades on Oct 6, 2007

    I see… thanks Ryan, didn’t know that. Great product you have there.

  5. By Karthik on Feb 19, 2008

    Hey Ades, I need ur help, I am not a techie, I need to build RSS aggregator, please help me, I need a script like adobe xml aggregator.

    thanks

  6. By kunnu singh on Apr 30, 2008

    plz. help me
    how to buil a feed aggrigator site like chitthajagat etc

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