darkleechQ: In terms of the RSS functionality.
1) Can I confirm that the Appsumo plan includes all the RSS functionality of the RSS Core Plan?
If yes to the above:
2) Can you use it to create an RSS feed using a google spreadsheet? Basically, if I use a web scraper to sync data to a google spreadsheet (preferred) that FeedBlitz can then turn that data into a RSS feed at regular intervals?
3) 1 mb for RSS feed seems low under the Core Plan. What counts towards this limit? I.e. Is this per article. For example, I see you mention that you can elect to convert youtube channels into RSS Feeds (Does the 1mb allow for a thumbnail to be included with each feed). If the images are a url (from a web scrape) does this count towards the limit.
4) Do you need to own the YouTube channel or can it be ones that you just want to keep and eye on?
5) Are there any limits on converting RSS's to emails.
6) Can it extract data from rss feeds with JavaScript disabled
For context, I do not own a website or intend to send emails as part of marketing etc. I want to be able to turn youtube channels (which I don't own in a channel) into a RSS feed for easier digestion, create an RSS from items a webscraper has scraped, and or create an email sending to my email address logging information present on others RSS feeds.
Phil_FeedBlitz
May 15, 2024A: Hi @darkleech
1) Yes!
2) We don't create RSS feeds, we extend your own. So if there's (say) a google app that can take a spreadsheet and make a feed out of that, we'll be able to ingest that feed. (Ah, Yahoo Pipes, you are missed)
3) 1MB is usually *plenty* for most bloggers and apps, with the most recent 10 posts included, typically. RSS feeds are not archives (podcasts being the exception to this rule, which is why we have the Procaster offering). Core clients who also sign up for Procaster tend to have very active, dynamic feeds with large amounts of copy per item, and many items. e.g. deal bloggers at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Most blog-based RSS feeds are order 100k-250k, so 1MB is a lot of headroom. If your use case ends up needing more, then you're exactly the edge case Procaster was created to serve.
4) The RSS feed you use (and YouTube has RSS feeds for channels) just has to be accessible and with licensing that allows redistribution, which is the case for most public feeds. So you can keep an eye on any site or app with an RSS feed, absolutely.
5) The email engine will only pull in the first 1MB of a source RSS feed if you don't have Procaster.
6) Our servers parse out the RSS feeds using our own proprietary engine. We adhere to the policy of being tolerant of data that comes in, and strict on the way out. What that means is: We can handle RSS feeds that strictly don't pass muster with the W3C validator, for example, or might have mismatched tags that break a strict XML parser, or date formats that are strictly incorrect but we can figure out what you mean. So I'm not sure what you're asking here, it might be better to have a convo with us via support. Depends on what you're trying to do with the feed.
YouTube channels have feeds. You can create an RSS feed in FeedBlitz, "splice" in other feeds to create a consolidated feed, then use that to mail yourself. That would work. Probably not super great, depending on the number of source feeds, but it would work.