I hope this question is not too newbie for you guys but is there anywhere I can get RSS feeds for my site where I just have to cut and paster the script onto the html code? I have been pointed to free feeds before but I always had to do something like upload some software or use some kind of cron jibs. which has always given me trouble. Can I not just cut and paste some code and get headline news that updated by itself (i gues like a java script) or something like that? By the way I use regular html and cpanel hosting....Thanks
Actually i am handling a new news site, my client wants that his site gets updated by itself, so now finding some sources (succedded in finding some i.e. rediffmail.com, blogger.com) I would love to get some comments and suggestions regarding the same. One more thing I want to ask is --- Is it ethical to use feeds on your site without permission ?? The problem is that we can download feeds in our RSS reader, but can we just paste them on our site ?? Is there any alternative solution to RSS reader, I mean can we make the site auto updatable by just adding a script (as provided by rediffmail).
If you are looking to populate a feed, then put into a sidebar or something let me know in this thread. I can send you somewhere that can do wonders for your RSS feed links.
Try Googling "RSS to javascript". There's a script that will transform an RSS feed into copy and paste javascript for you. The downside is javascript isn't search engine friendly. You should really just use a simple RSS reader like zfeeder. It isn't too hard to implement into your site.
Concerning the ethical issue, if you look at Google News, it's entirely comprised of feeds from other sites. I doubt they have permission to use all of that content. It doesn't seem to bother them.
I've got a great solution for you...I've been using it for sometime...it's: www.rss-info.com No software of any kind required... Click around where it says "RSSInclude Service..." then "Simple Feed Intergation Form - Start Here" and you should come to a page that asks you to paste any rss feed address into a box, customize it a bit, and then press "Create HTML". It then will spit out a script you can paste into your web page...you don't have to but I suggest doing your pages in .php because the php script it spits out is detectable to search engines while the javascript is not... but it'll spit out script for your html pages as well..the output script will also display video players...should they be in any rss feed you use... Anyway, I use this with pretty much any rss feed I find (ones with video too) and it works fantastic...and once it's inserted into your pages you can pretty much forget about it...unless you want to use a different rss feed or something... You can even take the feed from you own blog for example and have rss-info.com spit out a script for your own blog...that way you can have control of the content within the script... But if you want to create a script that updates automatically, just grab any rss feed that's updated...like yahoo's or google's feeds and rss-info.com will spit out a script for your site that will update automatically... hope this helps...