Comment Feeds Using Mail To RSS
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==Platform== | ==Platform== | ||
| - | For use with Blogger, or other blogging platforms that support emailing comments | + | For use with [[Blogger]] blogs, or other blogging platforms that support emailing comments. |
==Author== | ==Author== | ||
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[http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com Singpolyma] | [http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com Singpolyma] | ||
| - | ==Homepage | + | ==Homepage== |
| - | [http://blogfresh.blogspot.com/2005/12/comment-feed-added.html | + | [http://blogfresh.blogspot.com/2005/12/comment-feed-added.html Comment Feed Added] |
| - | ==Skill Level | + | ==Skill Level== |
| - | + | You need only to configure email forwarding of comments from your blog, and set up an email-to-RSS service. | |
| - | ==Description | + | ==Description== |
| - | This hack allows you to create an XML feed of recent comments to your blog, which readers can subscribe to in the usual way. It works by redirecting your blog's comment notification emails through an email-to- | + | This hack allows you to create an XML feed of recent comments to your blog, which readers can subscribe to in the usual way. It works by redirecting your blog's comment notification emails through an email-to-RSS service, which publishes the emails as an RSS feed. |
| - | ==Method | + | ==Method== |
| - | + | # Check that you can forward messages from the e-mail account that your blog's comments are sent to. | |
| - | + | # Go to [http://www.mailbucket.com Mailbucket], a service that takee e-mails and makes them a feed. As they say on the site: | |
"MailBucket is an experiment in alternative methods of email management. For now its only feature is a public email-to-RSS gateway: forward your email to ''slurp''@mailbucket.org and have your news reader pick it up at mailbucket.org/''slurp''.xml (where you choose ''slurp'', having checked that it's not already in use)." | "MailBucket is an experiment in alternative methods of email management. For now its only feature is a public email-to-RSS gateway: forward your email to ''slurp''@mailbucket.org and have your news reader pick it up at mailbucket.org/''slurp''.xml (where you choose ''slurp'', having checked that it's not already in use)." | ||
| - | + | # Set up a filter in your e-mail to take original comments, copy them, and forward them out to [http://www.mailbucket.com Mailbucket]. | |
| - | + | # Put a link on your site to allow subscription to this feed. | |
==Sites Using This Hack:== | ==Sites Using This Hack:== | ||
| - | *[http://blogfresh.blogspot.com Freshblog] | + | * [http://blogfresh.blogspot.com Freshblog] |
| - | *[http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com Singpolyma Technical] | + | * [http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com Singpolyma Technical] |
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| + | Edit this area and add your own link if you are using this hack. | ||
[[Category:Hacks]] | [[Category:Hacks]] | ||
[[Category:Comments]] | [[Category:Comments]] | ||
[[Category:Feeds]] | [[Category:Feeds]] | ||
Revision as of 23:56, 24 June 2006
Contents |
Platform
For use with Blogger blogs, or other blogging platforms that support emailing comments.
Author
Homepage
Skill Level
You need only to configure email forwarding of comments from your blog, and set up an email-to-RSS service.
Description
This hack allows you to create an XML feed of recent comments to your blog, which readers can subscribe to in the usual way. It works by redirecting your blog's comment notification emails through an email-to-RSS service, which publishes the emails as an RSS feed.
Method
- Check that you can forward messages from the e-mail account that your blog's comments are sent to.
- Go to Mailbucket, a service that takee e-mails and makes them a feed. As they say on the site:
"MailBucket is an experiment in alternative methods of email management. For now its only feature is a public email-to-RSS gateway: forward your email to slurp@mailbucket.org and have your news reader pick it up at mailbucket.org/slurp.xml (where you choose slurp, having checked that it's not already in use)."
- Set up a filter in your e-mail to take original comments, copy them, and forward them out to Mailbucket.
- Put a link on your site to allow subscription to this feed.
Sites Using This Hack:
Edit this area and add your own link if you are using this hack.
