How to Find ATOM, RSS, RDF Web Feeds

A Web Feed, commonly referred to as 'feed', is a way to publish articles, blog posts and structure information using a textual format which allows you to gather new content and republish it without accessing the HTML pages of any website supporting it.

You may search for web feeds (ATOM, RSS, RDF) using the good old Google trusting in the large adoption of this standards by almost all web sites but if you want to search using specialty search engines you need to ask for help to other guys.

This is a possible list of search engines, websites and tools dedicated to find ATOM and RSS web feeds.

• http://www.blogdigests.com/
  • Added on 2008-07-08
  • Free, in beta version
  • Search function
  • Directory (not very large)
• http://www.thefeeddirectory.com/
  • Added on 2008-07-08
  • Free
  • Search function
  • Directory (more than 53.000 feeds)
    • by categories
    • alphabetical
    • by type (RSS, RDF, ATOM)
• http: // www . feedfindings . com /
  • REPORTED AS MALICIOUS BY GOOGLE
  • Added on 2008-07-08
• http://www.technorati.com/
  • Added on 2008-07-08

Keyword Search Feeds

Not sure yet if they are related to finding feeds but with this tools you can created customized feeds based on keywords filtering an inventory of pre-existing feeds.

A list to be investigated further:

• http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
  • A tool to find, combine and aggregate web feeds
  • Added on 2008-07-15
• http://www.keyword-search-feeds.com/
  • A directory of keyword based search feeds
  • Added on 2008-07-08
• http://www.researchbuzz.org/tools/kebberfegg.pl
  • Kebberfegg - Keyword-Based RSS Feed Generator
  • Added on 2008-07-08

Video Search Feeds

A list of resources to find ATOM, RSS and RDF feeds containing videos

• http://www.youtube.com/
  • YouTube
  • Added on 2008-07-08
  • free
  • The feed has the following form:
  • http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=KEYWORD1+KEYWORD2&search_type=
• http://video.search.yahoo.com/
  • Yahoo Video Search
  • Added on 2008-07-08
  • The Web feeds is not readily available, you need to construct it in the form:
    • http://api.search.yahoo.com/VideoSearchService/rss/videoSearch.xml?appid=ysearchblog&adult_ok=0&results=50&format=mpeg&query=KEYWORDTOSEARCH
• http://www.blinkx.com/
  • BlinkX: aggregates video search results
  • Added on 2008-07-08
  • As of today I wasn't able to have the RSS feed to work
• http://podscope.com/
  • podscope: audio video search engine
  • Not very fast, not very exhaustive
  • Added on 2008-07-08
• http://video.msn.com/
  • MSN Video Search
  • Added on 2008-07-08
  • Feed URL format template:
  • http://video.msn.com/rss.aspx?tab=soapbox&search=KEYWORD
• http://www.blogdigger.com/
  • Blogdigger media search
  • Added on 2008-07-08
  • Feed URL format template:
    • http://www.blogdigger.com/media/search.jsp?q=kubrick

Audio Search Feeds

Tools and resources to find audio web feeds

• http://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mp3
  • Del.icio.us used to find MP3 files
  • Added on 2008-07-08
  • For a specific search you have to use a line in following form where KEYWORD is your query:
    • http://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mp3+KEYWORD
• http://podscope.com/
  • podscope: audio video search engine
  • Not very fast, not very exhaustive
  • Added on 2008-07-08

Web Feeds Filtering, Merging and Editing

• http://www.blogsieve.com/
  • BlogSieve is a free web-based tool that creates new feeds by filtering, merging and sorting existing feeds.
  • Cannot get it to work: it keeps on asking an email address which I have inserted.
  • Added on 2008-07-08