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I hate feed aggregation software. I want to set something like this up (which uses this), but I know nothing about Python. Are there any alternatives?
Recently, I came upon this site, which aggregates a bunch of feeds this guy reads on a page. I really liked the set up, so I e-mailed him, and asked him how he did it, and he responded saying he uses Venus, which is a Python script (I don't know the terminology for these things). I attempted to follow the instructions to install it on my site, but it all went over my head, and confused the hell out of me, so I gave up. Is there any way I can achieve the same effect as that guy's site without having to go through some confusing installation process? Preferably, something I can host on my own site, and can customize the look of. I can install things like WordPress and all that, but once you get into things like Python and Ruby on Rails, I'm lost (just so you know what I can and can't do).
Recently, I came upon this site, which aggregates a bunch of feeds this guy reads on a page. I really liked the set up, so I e-mailed him, and asked him how he did it, and he responded saying he uses Venus, which is a Python script (I don't know the terminology for these things). I attempted to follow the instructions to install it on my site, but it all went over my head, and confused the hell out of me, so I gave up. Is there any way I can achieve the same effect as that guy's site without having to go through some confusing installation process? Preferably, something I can host on my own site, and can customize the look of. I can install things like WordPress and all that, but once you get into things like Python and Ruby on Rails, I'm lost (just so you know what I can and can't do).
I know this is not quite what you're looking for, but have you considered google reader?
posted by royalsong at 6:05 PM on August 4, 2009
posted by royalsong at 6:05 PM on August 4, 2009
What about Fever? It's really new, slick, well designed, and is just a PHP/MySQL doodad, so not really any harder than WordPress. (No, I haven't got it myself as I like Google Reader, but have seen others rave about it on Twitter.)
posted by wackybrit at 6:09 PM on August 4, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by wackybrit at 6:09 PM on August 4, 2009 [1 favorite]
If you're going to do this, I'd recommend doing what Mark does, which is to keep the URL semi-private, and definitely use a robots.txt. You don't need the headache of people screaming at you for stealing their content and hosting it on your site.
posted by chrisamiller at 6:31 PM on August 4, 2009
posted by chrisamiller at 6:31 PM on August 4, 2009
If you have at least rudimentary skill level in any web-related programming language you might take a crack at this, it's a pretty simple thing to do. You could have a flat HTML file on your desktop that did this with javascript, not even a web server or database needed.
posted by XMLicious at 7:44 PM on August 4, 2009
posted by XMLicious at 7:44 PM on August 4, 2009
Have you tried Feedreader? It is (to me) sufficiently different from most of the crap out there to make it worthwhile.
posted by gjc at 8:06 PM on August 4, 2009
posted by gjc at 8:06 PM on August 4, 2009
The term you want use in your googling travels is, "lifestream."
posted by rhizome at 8:12 PM on August 4, 2009
posted by rhizome at 8:12 PM on August 4, 2009
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They're likely not as easy to install as wordpress but here are some PHP RSS Feed Aggregaters
posted by bitdamaged at 6:02 PM on August 4, 2009