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Introducing Feed Control
Feed Control is a new, hosted service we’re offering here at FiveFilters.org. It can monitor different types of feeds: RSS feeds, Twitter feeds, and webpages. For each feed you can set up filtering,...
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Feed Control, Full-Text RSS, Feed Creator: Which to choose?
Since launching Feed Control, some of you have asked how it compares to Full-Text RSS and Feed Creator. This post will try to answer that. TLDR: If you’re not a developer, and have no need to run our...
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Reuters officially stopped producing RSS feeds in June 2020, but there are workarounds available. Our Feed Creator application can generate RSS feeds from almost any website, including Reuters. We...
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Feed Control: JSON output on all paid plans and CDN fixes
JSON output is now supported in Feed Control on all paid plans (previously it was only available on the Plus and Business plans). It can be enabled on the Generate RSS/JSON tab when editing a feed....
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Using proxy servers for content retrieval
We’ve added proxy support to Feed Control in our latest update. This post will explain what it does, why you might need it, and how you can enable it. If you’re a user of our self-hosted Full-Text RSS...
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Google News RSS feeds
It’s possible to get a variety of RSS feeds from Google News, and they all come from Google itself, so they don’t have to be generated with third-party tools like our Feed Creator. In this post we’ll...
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Filtering out newsletter signup forms embedded in web articles
Very few sites on the internet are meant to facilitate reading — most are, in fact, designed to inhibit reading.Alan Jacobs Browsing and reading web articles comfortably online without an ad-blocker...
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Readability – article extraction and HTML parsing with PHP
Readability, a nifty tool to make web articles more readable, was launched in 2009 by Arc90. It contained code to detect article content on practically any web page, isolate it and present it in a...
View ArticleFeed Control: discontinuing the free plan
Maintaining the free plan on our Feed Control service is unfortunately taking too much time and server resources for us to be able to continue to do it effectively. So to allow us to better manage the...
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