Most social websites nowadays provide news feeds – constant updates of changes since your last visit. However, finding all these feeds – to put them in Google Reader, for instance, can be tricky. I’ve taken the hassle out of this chore by putting the URLs of these feeds for many of the most popular services in this one handy list. Enjoy!
Find Your Social Network Feeds
http://brightkite.com/people/username/objects.rss
(replace rss with kml if needed)
http://brightkite.com/people/username/friendstream.rss
(to include feeds for friends)
Upcoming
Go to “My Events” page and look for the Subscribe button. Right-click and save feed URL.Yelp
Login to Yelp and go to http://www.yelp.com/rss for links to RSS and Atom feeds.
Next to your Network Updates is the RSS Button. Click it and enable the RSS feed option.http://wakoopa.com/username/feed/recently_used
(Recently used apps)
Good Reads
In the “My BookShelf” area you will find links for each of the following three types of feeds your GoodReads account can generate. Within each page there will be an RSS feed link you can right-click and copy and use elsewhere. The three feeds are: 1. Books Read, 2. Books Currently Reading, and 3. Books You Want to Read
Find Your Blog Feed
Blog platforms offer multiple feeds with some standard URLs. Checkout these helpful resources for the most popular blogging platforms: WordPress, Blogger, and TypePad blogging platforms. If you use a third-party RSS service such as Feedburner, then your blog’s RSS feed will be something like: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/YourBlogName
Micro-blogging Services
http://username.tumblr.com/rss
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.rss
http://www.utterli.com/u/rss/username
(Personal feed only)
http://www.utterli.com/u/rss/home/pv-username
(For circle of friends)
http://www.plurk.com/username.xml
http://identi.ca/username
Photo Services
http://www.flickr.com/photos/username
You can also use IDGettr to find your Flickr user ID: http://idgettr.com
http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/username?alt=rss
SmugMug – In your Gallery, look for Available Feeds and you’ll some find some for RSS and Atom.
TwitPic – All of the photos you share on Twitter via TwitPic in one feed
http://twitpic.com/photos/username/feed.rss
Zooomr – Go to your zipline (
) and look for the RSS feed icon.
http://www.zooomr.com/username
Find Feeds for Video Services
Netflix – Here are all of the different types of feeds from NetFlix. They include feeds for everything such as the movies in your queue, movies you’ve seen, recommend, etc.
YouTube –
(video uploads)
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/username/uploads
(favorite videos)
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/username/favorites
(Playlists)
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/username/playlists
http://12seconds.tv/channel/username/feed
(Videos)
http://vimeo.com/username/videos/rss
(Albums)
http://vimeo.com/username/albums/rss
(Things you’ve liked on Vimeo)
http://vimeo.com/username/likes/rss
Seesmic –
http://feeds.seesmic.com/user.{username}.{format} (RSS or Atom)
Find Feeds for Music Services
Last.fm –
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/username/recenttracks.rss
iLike – After logging in, look for the RSS Feed button next to Recent Artist Updates.
Pandora – Generate any feed you want here: http://www.pandora.com/feeds
Bookmarking Services
http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/username?count=15
Magnolia –
http://ma.gnolia.com/rss/full/people/username
Google Shared Stuff – Click the View Your Shared Stuff link and look for the RSS button.
http://rss.stumbleupon.com/user/username/favorites
http://rss.stumbleupon.com/user/username/blog
http://rss.stumbleupon.com/user/username/reviews
http://rss.stumbleupon.com/user/username/comments
Commenting Services
Disqus –
http://disqus.com/people/username/comments.rss
http://feeds.backtype.com/username
Intense Debate – Go to the AddOns page and you’ll find all of your RSS feeds.
Find Feeds for News Services
Digg –
http://digg.com/users/username/history.rss
Google Reader – Google Reader Shared Items RSS Feed: Click Shared items under Your Stuff, then the link in the following line “Your shared items are available publicly at this web page.” On that page you will find the Atom Feed for all of the items you shared from Google Reader.
What Do you Do With All These Feeds?
Once you accumulate all of your news feeds, what do you do with all that stuff? Well, you have a couple of fun and interesting options. You can add them to your RSS reader of choice, such as Google Reader, and share your favorite content with your friends. You can also add these feeds to your social networking aggregator of choice, for example, FriendFeed. I’ll use those two as examples but the same process will work with any similar services.
You can add some of them to UnHub to create your own social network control center like the one I created here. http://unhub.com/paisano
Adding Your Own RSS Feeds to Google Reader and How to Share them
Launch Google Reader and click Add Submission, paste one of your RSS feeds and click the Add button. Once the new feed has been added to your Google Reader successfully, click the Add to folder dropdown, select New Folder and call it something like MYFeeds (or whatever you want).
After adding all of your feeds, you can start sharing your favorite entries just as you do with posts from other blogs. Just click Share at the bottom of any entry and it will appear in your Google Reader Shared Items feed where all your friends will see it Adding Your Own RSS Feeds to FriendFeed The other thing you can do with all your personal feeds is add them to a social networking aggregator such as FriendFeed, which seems to be the most popular service around these days. They make it easy to add most of the major services, and for those services that don’t appear on their list of supported sites you can use the add blog option and paste any of your personal feeds.Note: Your public feed for FriendFeed is http://Friendfeed.com/username 🙂
Create Your Own AllTop Website IndividURLS lets you create your own private AllTop type of website with all of your own personal feeds on one webpage. You can then save the bookmark to your iPhone’s homepage for quick access.
FeedValidator – A handy tool to check on the status of any of your feeds, whether its ATOM, RSS or KML. It also makes recommendations for improving your feeds interoperability with the widest range of feed readers. FeedForAll – Lets you create and publish your own RSS feeds, especially useful for corporate entities. FeedKiller – Add any of your favorite feeds to a single webpage for easy viewing. FeedTwitter – Helps you share your feeds on Twitter, Plurk and identi.ca. Yahoo Pipes – Can create many interesting mashups with your feeds. Grazr – Allows you to merge your favorite feeds and publish them as a widget. RSSMixer – Also lets you create widgets for streaming all of your feeds, and works on mobile devices. It even lets you create an OPML file, which is like creating a backup of all your feeds in a single file. You can import/restore it any time in any reader, too.
Summation
This is not by any means an all-inclusive list. Please share any that you know of that wasn’t included in this list. I’ll add them to the list as soon as possible. Also share some cool tools you use with your RSS feeds. Thanks!