Find RSS / Atom feed on a web page
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:30 am
I'm building some functionality that will enable users to import their existing blog posts to their account on my site. I have already implemented this and it works great as long as the user submits an RSS feed URL to my site. The problem I'm having is that many users just paste in their blog URL rather than their RSS feed url. I could resort to forcing users to go and get their RSS url by validating the address they submit but, well, I'm just too nice and I'd love to be able to get that feed URL for them.
Is there anything that will find an RSS feed on a web page? I noticed that Firefox does it with a little icon on in the address bar.
Is there anything that will find an RSS feed on a web page? I noticed that Firefox does it with a little icon on in the address bar.