RSS

I've spent a lot of the last 24 hours messing about and thinking about RSS Feeds. They have been about for ages and I have used them on and off for years now. Yesterday though I noticed that a site I use a lot had started testing RSS Feeds for searches.

What this means is rather than me having to keep going to the site and doing a search for something, my RSS Reader would do the search as often as I told it too and it would return the results to me. So I no longer have to mess about doing it manually.

The next bit I have been trying to do is to get an RSS Reader to automatically download the results for me. This is possbile but unfortunately the site I'm trying to download from doesn't appear to have implemented the feeds correctly but as I said they are only testing it.

I have tried loads of RSS/podcast Readers over the last day, Google Reader (used before), CITA RSS Aggregator, Juice and many others, but decided I like Newz Crawler the best so far.

The Readers do appear to of got better since I first tried some a few years ago, Google Reader has improved since it launched as well but doesn't allow you to subscribe to password protected feeds otherwise I would of chosen it. Although wouldn't download files automatically.

It's a shame I can't get my email as an RSS Feed, maybe it's possible will have a bit more dig. I've already emailed the BBC to ask if they plan to produce the Live Text Sport Commentary as RSS Feeds, they have loads of other Feeds.