How to test out rss feeds

[pcslookout]

How do I test rss feeds to see if they are working ? Can I create my own ?

 

[clamum]

I'm not super familiar with RSS feeds but I have an idea of what they are. To me you're asking two totally different questions.

- How do you test RSS feeds? Get an RSS reader would be my suggestion. If the feed can be parsed successfully it is working, IMO. Windows RSS feed readers

- Can you create your own? Sure. Look up the spec (on Wikipedia or something; it's just XML) and you could manually write out a simple one using Notepad or text editor.

And I just realized. There's a W3C Feed Validation Service too, just like how you can validate if HTML is proper and so on. Looks like you can either enter a URL of the feed or paste in the raw XML text for the feed. A search of "rss validator" should bring up some more info.

 

[IronWing]

I wrote an RSS feed perl script a few years back. If you want it, I can see if I can dig it up. It validated at the time it was written. I don't know if the spec has changed over the years.