More Data Aggregators – RSS options for your Widgets

User comments from our previous post
"Create an RSS feed from any website data" pointed out a couple other options.

1. openkapow. Download and install their RoboMaker software to create REST, RSS, ATOM or HTML service feeds from just about any source that has a URL.

openkapow almost lost me on step one "Download and Install RoboMaker" (No Mac version available), and then again after I noticed it was a 106 MB file (eek!), but I pushed through. After installing, my first impression is 'complicated'. openkapow seems incredibly powerful, but it's going to take some work to go through the tutorials and learn your way up to making a REST service or even consuming a simple feed.

2. FeedYes. Point the service at a URL and it tries to figure out if there's any structured data on the page. Seems to work well with my initial tests, but the user interface could use a bit of polishing.

Out of the four so far (Feed43, Dapper, openkapow, FeedYes) my vote for straight up easiest to use with some options is Dapper; completely web based, no problems with reliability and hopefully any of the UI awkwardness of the initial releases will improve with age.

Hope this helps.

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