RSS Feeds for the RSS Challenged Site

I visit some sites that do not have RSS feeds but I have to manually visit the site to see if there have been updates to the content. Also there is some software I use that I must visit their websites to see if an update has been released. I wish they would all publish RSS feeds that I could then just monitor with Newsgator, the free RSS reader I use.

My problem may be solved. I just ran across an online service called Feed43 which they say is pronounced, “Feed For Free”. It acts a middleman between your RSS reader and web sites that don’t supply RSS feeds. Using some simplified RegEx patterns and the web site’s html source, it allows you to create custom news feeds in RSS format for any web site that you can then read in your RSS reader.

They say it is “Feed for Free”, but is Feed43 really free? From their web site it appears there is the basic functionality that is free and they have 3 levels of paid membership offer more features. The free service has the following limitations:

• 6-hour polling interval
• Maximum of 20 news items per channel
• Only first 100kb of source page will be downloaded and parsed

This definitely looks promising….