Six ways to filter RSSFeed content

Original: 6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds

RSS is undoubtedly one of the best technologies in the development of web content distribution over the past decade. It allows users to easily track content updates across multiple sites simultaneously, and these updates can be pushed directly to the user. But many RSS readers face the problem that too many sources of information to be tracked can easily be buried with information. Information overload is a very troublesome issue for many internet users, and filtering the contents of an RSS feed to show only the parts of interest is a good way to deal with this issue.

There are many ways to filter the feeds of your favorite feeds, including by passively using sites like Techmeme to filter out information or using social feeds like shared items from Google Reader. We've also seen some automated filtering methods such as Feedhub (our introduction) filtering information by learning about user habits, or AideRSS (our introduction), using external rules to determine which feeds are "most" Ok". However, the purpose of this article is to focus on filtering feeds by keyword.


Feed Rinse is the best RSS filter app. It can filter content by keywords, tags, authors, titles and more. It supports regular expressions and has built-in bad vocabulary filtering, and you can easily import all your RSS feeds (also supporting OPML output) by uploading the OPML file directly. Since we first introduced it in April 2006, it has started to provide services completely free of charge.


FilterMyRSS is a boring keyword filter that removes boring content. That is, users provide keywords they do not want to see, and FilterMyRss can help you filter out the content that has these keywords. The filtering methods it supports include descriptions, titles, or categories and other XML elements.


When we first reviewed the Blastfeed of 2or3things in 2006, it would seem that it would be shaped into a great customizable filter like Feed Rinse. But later, the company changed its direction and Blastfeed became a corporate filtration solution. Blastfeed keyword filters can also be used to republish filtered feed content, for example, a band's fan site can create a new feed that contains content from various generic music sites but only contains this Content of band information.


Feed Sifter is an almost shameless RSS filter used to pick out content that contains specific keywords. In other words, it keeps track of the keywords you typed and presents you with articles that contain those keywords. It can search for articles that contain single or multiple keywords.


ZapTXT is a variant of the RSS Keyword Filter, which sends filtered content via mail, instant messaging or mobile phone. It is designed to serve those who read RSS feeds using non-traditional means, such as through RSS Reader. ZapTXT also supports content updates such as TheStreet.com via email, instant messaging or text messaging.


For those who love to do it yourself, Yahoo! Pipes provides an easy way to filter RSS feeds. The RSS Reassembly app makes setting up filters easy. Simply define your feed using the "Fetch Feed" module and attach him to the "Filter" module to select or remove the title, description, category, author of the feed, and the content of a specific keyword for the date. Then connect to the Pipe Output. It's less feature rich than Feed Rinse, but you get more autonomy. The following example can filter our feed to only output the content that contains "Facebook" in the title