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January 13, 2004

Yahoo! News RSS Feeds

Either I missed something before or this is a new service from Yahoo! I noticed an XML icon on one of their news pages this morning and it led me to their News RSS Feed Index. They are hosting 14 RSS 2.0 feeds, based on their top-level categories and criteria such as "Most Emailed", "Highest Rated", and "Most Viewed". All of the feeds are parsed by SharpReader perfectly. It's mainly AP & Reuters content, but since I already use Yahoo! News a lot I'm subscribing to them.

Update: Scotbuff pointed out that these are not new. I did a quick Google to see if you can pass parameters to them and it looks like Jeremy Zawodny is doing just that. Cool stuff.

Posted by Alex Harden on January 13, 2004 8:45 AM |

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Those are actually not new. I was using the Top Stories Feed for the top news stories on the right side of my website until I replaced it with Brutal Deluxe News and the XML has existed, not advertised for a while. Maybe a year or almost a year.

I think it is a very cool feature, because you can easily include it into your site without a big flashing "HEY THIS IS FROM YAHOO LOGO" stamped somewhere on it. Most free newsfeeds always have to give a plug, nevermind the link you are providing to the news story ends up on their site.

Also nice for RSS Readers too. Rather than paging through Localfeeds, I just plug all the feeds from sites I care about into Trillian. Then I stay informed as to what you guys are up to. :)

Posted by: Scotbuff | January 13, 2004 1:54 PM

They still don't have any publicly-displayed league-specific sports news feeds, so my code is still in business. I wonder if their website is programmed to provide customized feeds based on URL parameters like News.com does. It'd be nice to get an official NFL news feed from them. Perhaps I'll ask them about that in an email.

Posted by: aharden | January 13, 2004 3:04 PM

The Jeremy Zawodny info is awesome. I did notknow that was capable. Definitely worth messing around with further.

Posted by: scotbuff | January 13, 2004 5:14 PM

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