RSS Feed Where One Doesn't Exhist

September 13, 2005 9:06 PM

Is there any way I can get an RSS feed for a site that doesn't publish one? I really want to access ComingSoon.net's Trailer page (which totally rocks) via Bloglines.
posted by JPowers to technology (10 comments total)

You could ask this guy to scrape the site and make a feed for you for just two and a half Euros. (Discussed on Metafilter.)
posted by teg at 9:27 PM on September 13, 2005

You say that they don't publish one, but they do have lots of feeds, including a general feed where they announce all new trailers. Sorry if you already know this; I can commiserate, as I have to scour the net all the time to find people who have made feeds of pages I want to track.
posted by scazza at 9:52 PM on September 13, 2005

I think this site allows you to do what you want.
posted by jikel_morten at 10:16 PM on September 13, 2005

For sites that don't have feeds, I set up an e-mail subscription on Bloglines and use an e-mail reminder service to send me reminders to check the sites.
posted by hootch at 11:17 PM on September 13, 2005

Try this
posted by Mave_80 at 5:11 AM on September 14, 2005

I have a similar question. I asked toothpastefordinner to set up an RSS feed and got a snarky 'no' response. I may ask for the scrape mentioned above, but is there any other source for TFD feeds?
posted by clgregor at 10:56 AM on September 14, 2005

Thanks! The two answers I marked as best worked best.
posted by JPowers at 8:48 PM on September 14, 2005

Forget toothpaste for dinner. drew's too busy selling books and t-shirts to care about his web presence.
posted by Eamon at 9:36 AM on September 15, 2005

For relatively simple websites, I use the bloglines email subscription function with ChangeDetection--they email you when the website changes rather than having to set your own reminders.
posted by reflexed at 3:54 AM on September 22, 2005

Soneone followed up with me on the Toothpaste For Dinner Feed. I believe that Drew has one of his own (atom) via live journal, but here's another made by 'lucas' who writes, "if you do post it please also write that I only made it because he refused to fix his own."
posted by clgregor at 6:21 AM on August 28, 2006