Recent Updates Script

[Chiara]

Help, I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out how I can create an XML feed that will track the 100+ blogs on my site and publish the first paragraph of the 5 most recently updated. I want the feed to publish in a box on my home page. I've searched Google for the answer and cannot come up with it. How do sites create that list of "recent articles"?

[digitalpoint]

It depends on the blog if they have an XML or RSS feed or not. For example:

http://www.seroundtable.com/index.xml

Most blog software has it built in... what are you using?

[Chiara]

Using blogger. It has Atom/XML built in, but I can't figure out how to make more than one blog go into a single feed.

[digitalpoint]

You probably would just need to make a script that reads all the feeds, then writes the entries out to a single file.

[Chiara]

Er, yeah, um, sure! :o
I would have no idea how to do that.

[Chiara]

Is there anybody out there who can help me with this? I am not a programmer. I found a site that allows one to combine RSS feeds into a single feed, but it doesn't look like I can then put it on my own site. I am desperate ... this is ridiculous because I know it's probably a simple script since I've seen it on many websites. :confused:

[schlottke]

I have something that can do that for you - PM me and ill get it out to you.