How to turn email subscriptions into RSS feeds.
October 6, 2015 3:50 PM Subscribe
I want to turn the email newsletters I subscribe to into RSS feeds, so I can receive them in my RSS reader, instead of my inbox. IFTTT doesn't do this. Does anyone know of another way?
Response by poster: Hmm, I'm wondering if there's something else that will do this without charging me $220 per year? I don't mind paid services, but that's a bit on the expensive side for me, considering the fact that I don't plan to use it for anything else. I have at least 20-30 subscriptions that need to be converted.
posted by webgurl at 5:18 PM on October 6, 2015
posted by webgurl at 5:18 PM on October 6, 2015
If you've only that many you should be okay on the free plan - you only need one integration, free allows five, and you get 100 a month. Besides that, I don't have any particular experience. I guess I'd try setting up a Tumblr or Wordpress email-to-post, if it'll accept the sender of the emails, and see if the feed you get from that's any good.
posted by michaelh at 6:58 PM on October 6, 2015
posted by michaelh at 6:58 PM on October 6, 2015
You can get a free email account, subscribe it to your newsletters, and set it to forward all the emails to a blog with associated RSS feed, as michaelh suggests. You could also set up forwarding rules in gmail for each newsletter.
posted by yarntheory at 7:22 PM on October 6, 2015
posted by yarntheory at 7:22 PM on October 6, 2015
Response by poster: I'll experiment with this, but I'm pretty sure post by email only works with one sender.
posted by webgurl at 9:56 PM on October 6, 2015
posted by webgurl at 9:56 PM on October 6, 2015
You could send the email to a mailinator account (anonymous email). They have rss for the inboxes.
posted by exois at 4:30 AM on October 7, 2015
posted by exois at 4:30 AM on October 7, 2015
post by email only works with one sender
I have an email address I can use to post to a Blogger blog and it will work no matter which address I use to send the email. It is a "secret" email address. But even if your blog will only accept one sender, your new address is the sender since you are forwarding the messages. I'd set up specific filters that forward the message based on the sender and then delete it. That way the spam is less likely to get posted and you can review the inbox periodically to see if anything you want is being missed.
posted by soelo at 7:30 AM on October 7, 2015
I have an email address I can use to post to a Blogger blog and it will work no matter which address I use to send the email. It is a "secret" email address. But even if your blog will only accept one sender, your new address is the sender since you are forwarding the messages. I'd set up specific filters that forward the message based on the sender and then delete it. That way the spam is less likely to get posted and you can review the inbox periodically to see if anything you want is being missed.
posted by soelo at 7:30 AM on October 7, 2015
Response by poster: So I was looking at the emails to RSS thing, and it forwards all incoming emails. I don't want all emails sent to a feed, just specific ones. I've used Mailinator in the past, (not for this, obviously,) I'll give that a try!
posted by webgurl at 8:02 PM on November 6, 2015
posted by webgurl at 8:02 PM on November 6, 2015
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posted by michaelh at 4:02 PM on October 6, 2015