I would like to pull rss feeds from various websites into a webpage , preferably html , what would be the best way for me to go about it ? something like indiasphere.net
first you should have the consent of the site's owner(from which you want to pull the feeds) to do this or that would be considered as spamming/content stealing and get you banned from Google search listing etc if you're on a Wordpress installation, you can try this out : http://simplepie.org/
no i am not on a wordpress install , i wanted a standalone page on which i would have feeds from various sources (basically some social bookmark websites)
then perhaps you could give more info on the type of install you're on so that we can get you the related tools to get this done. great stuff the widgetbucks stuff, trying that now thanks for it.
You're best off using a server side programming language like PHP to parse the RSS feeds and convert them to HTML before embedding the output into a Web page.
Try converting the feed to javascript. I see that as being the easiest way to embed rss into a simple html page. Here's a link to an RSS to Javascript converter: http://commons.ucalgary.ca/feed2js/build.php That should work for what you need.
That's actually a VERY bad idea, ottoisaac. The feed content is not available to search engine spiders nor is it available to those who have JavaScript turned off/stripped by a firewall or flat out not supported. Which is why I suggested the server-side route (since it gets parsed into HTML before being sent to the browser).
I just thought javascript would be the easiest way. Is it not that hard to set up the server-side php?
Shouldn't be hard at all, even for a PHP novice (of which I do include myself in that category by the way).
It can be done, but if you're talking about a system like WordPress, it would be best to use a plugin, or to include it among the core functionality of the blog/CMS if you were to write your own.