RSStory is a tool to turn the archives of blogs and webcomics into new RSS feeds.
NOTE: RSStory is no longer hosted anywhere by me due to hosting costs.
- If you've just discovered a new webcomic and want to read through the archives at a leisuly pace, RSStory can do that.
- If your favorite blogger just stopped blogging, you can use RSStory to have an article from their past work delivered to you daily.
- Basically, you would use RSStory any time you want a regular stream of old content.
You may use RSStory now at rsstory.com
To use, simply fill in the 4 fields and add the feed to your RSS reader of choise.
RSStory is still in an alpha state and as such does not work on many sites. If you want a site RSStory is guarenteed to work on, try the xkcd archives
RSStory has a variety of scraping methods which are designed to scrape a certain class of sites. If automatic detection does not work well you can try manually selecting a better scraping method.
This approach is designed for an archive page that is just a list of links to the archived pages. The xkcd archives are an example of a page that this approach would likely be good for.
This approach is designed for webcomics which often times have buttons for navigating from one comic to the next. For this approach you give the first comic in the strip and then RSStory crawls the site comic by comic following the links to the next comic. This approach works well for most webcomics but takes much longer than the single page approach since RSStory needs to visit many more pages.
This approach is meant for sites with a sidebar archive with links to the articles from a given month. Any page containing the sidebar works as input. If you know that the site you want to create a feed for is a blogspot or wordpress blog you should try the special blogspot or wordpress methods over this one.
Designed to parse the default format that wordpress uses for their archives.
Designed to parse the default format that blogspot uses for their archives.