Content that’s semantically structured in the form of a standardized XML document is ideal for automatic processing. This can include processing for various devices – mostly mobile – and gives content providers the possibility of making their content available on various media channels.
Website operators sometimes use RSS to integrate external content into their website. Integrating the already prepared content of one website into another is called syndication. You can find multiple sites online, such as blogs or forums that use RSS feeds from news portals as well as relevant industry sites that provide their visitors with the latest news from representative content providers. Such multiple uses may be within a commercial framework, but large news portals allow non-commercial use of their RSS feed as well. As a rule, it’s free of charge, but they do reserve the right to prohibit the transfer of content without giving an appropriate reason.
One simple software solution for integrating RSS feeds is FeedWind from Mikle. The free tool can be found on https://feed.mikle.com/ as a web app. It offers all of the functions that website operators need to prepare freely available RSS documents for their own projects.
The integration of an RSS feed with FeedWind is easily accomplished with six simple steps:
1. Search for the appropriate RSS feed: Usually, content providers make available RSS channels clearly visible on the site. If such a feed is to be used for another project, the URL for the XML document needs to be determined first.
2. Import XML data over the feed URL: Before you can process an RSS feed for presentation on your own website, you need to import the URL of the XML document into the web app. FeedWind offers the following input box: