Using RSS Feeds to add dynamic content to your website..video, images and text!

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Posted by Ibdreamy - October 22, 2008 Comments 0

Using RSS Feeds to add dynamic content to your website..video, images and text!

If you can have a program aggregate RSS feeds, then it makes sense that you can aggregate the aggregators and that’s what Popurl does…

Learn how to add video, image and text feeds to your website..

So, there is a lot of content in this post.. maybe too much.. but I found so many great RSS feed resources that I just felt a strong need to share them..all.

Using RSS Feeds to Add Dynamic Content to your Website:

I’ve recently been playing around with a blog idea using the onenews template which is basically a rip off of popurls.com website. Unfortunantly the template doesn’t come with the plugins for adding video and images that the premium theme offers so I had to try and figure that all out on my own. It took me a minute to figure it all out so I wanted to put together a list of some of the tools I found that worked when it came to adding video and image feeds to your site.

Using videos and image feeds can be a lot of fun and lets face it, it’s an awesome way to add more content to your website. A mashup!

We’ve all seen the Flickr RSS feeds on blogs and those are great but if you want to get a little more nifty you need to check out these sites…

Yahoo Pipes – This is the answer..A little bit more complicated for the first time user but there are videos on youtube and on their site that can help you learn how to create pipes. Pipes are feeds from other sites or your site which you can filter RSS feeds using tags and other filters. Very cool. I’d say this is the best resource I found if your looking to create a mashup feed of images or videos on your website or blog.
RSS2HTML.com – Create RSS feeds using video, images, audio or text using an easy to follow editor.

RSS-to-Javascript – Free dynamic content for your site. RSS/RDF Converter Fill in the feeds details and it will generate the feed to JavaScript for you. Nice! This works for images and video feeds as well.
RSS Xpress-Lite – RSSxpress Lite is a simple way of placing an RSS channel onto your own websites using a single line of JavaScript. You don’t even need to understand JavaScript, just cut an paste and hopefully it’ll work! This service enables you specify the RSS channel you want to add to your site and will then create the JavaScript required for you to cut and paste to your own pages – Just Try it!
Just to give you an idea..I used this site to create the collegehumor feed at the bottom of my omgWTFDaily.com website. I’m still playing around with that site it is FAR from finished.
FeedSweep – Create custom text feeds
Create a Feed at Feed Widget.com
Create a Video Feed at mefeedia.com

Need help? Can’t find those pesky video and podcast feeds?

Here are some tips:

Usernames:

http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/username/videos.rss
http://username.blip.tv/?1=1&s=posts&skin=rss

Searches:

http://api.search.yahoo.com/VideoSearchService/rss/videoSearch.xml?appid=ysearchblog&adult_ok=0&results=50&format=mpeg&query=yoursearch
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=yoursearch&num=20&output=rss
http://www.blogdigger.com/media/rss.jsp?q=yoursearch&media=audio&media=video&sortby=date
http://grouper.com/rss.ashx?q=yoursearch&st=0&s=7&ipod=1
http://www.blogdigger.com/media/rss.jsp?q=yoursearch&sortby=date&media=audio&media=video media=image
http://www.podscope.com/rsssearch.php?q=yoursearch
http://blip.tv/?1=1&search=yoursearch;s=posts&skin=rss