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Chimpfeedr – Stupid-Simple RSS Mixer from MailChimp

September 26th, 2008 | by Ben

Chimpfeedr - Stupid simple RSS mixer

Chimpfeedr - Stupid simple RSS mixer

While working on the MailChimp RSS-to-Email tool, we wanted to mash up a bunch of RSS feeds into one huge “master” feed, to test our template designs with lots of content. But we couldn’t find a “stupid-simple” RSS mixer that was easy, free, reliable, and that didn’t require registration.

We came across Yahoo! Pipes, which is amazingly powerful (check out how you can auto-translate your RSS-emails in the latest issue of MonkeyWrench). But Yahoo! Pipes is a little complex for the average blogger.

So we said “screw it, let’s just make our own and post it.”

Introducing: ChimpFeedr

Just feed MailChimp a bunch of RSS URLs (you can simply type the domain of the blog, and we’ll hunt for the exact URL of the RSS feed) and then hit the “CHOMP” button. Done.

Now you’ve got a master RSS feed that you can add to your RSS reader, or send via email with MailChimp.

BTW, the underlying technology here will be worked into MailChimp shortly, so you can combine all your company’s different RSS feeds into one handy HTML email message. Look for it in an upcoming MailChimp upgrade.

RSS what? Learn more about MailChimp’s RSS-to-email tool.

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Posted in MailChimp Labs, MailChimp News | 7 Comments »

7 Comments

    • Michael says:

      Aww man, I spent the time to put in every feed address for every Google blog (using the links found here: http://www.google.com/press/blogs/directory.html), which, yes, is a lot, but I wanted to try and see what it would be like to follow all of them.

      Any way, after clicking the Chomp Chomp button, I got this error: —-snipsnipbyben—–

      I guess it was just too many bananas for the Chimp to chomp! :-(

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    • Ben says:

      Oops, a little Amazon S3 misconfiguration there. We’re still tinkering. You can try again, but no guarantees. We had to set *some* reasonable limits here. That’s a lotta RSS to swallow at once.

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    • Michael says:

      Heh, I can understand. It was really just out of curiosity more so than necessity.

      Man, you know what’d be awesome, is if when you clicked the Chomp Chomp button, you’d either get a sweet little Chimp animation, or Chimp chatter!

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    • Ben says:

      Brilliant! Sending an email to our Simian Animation Team.

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    • Bessie says:

      Greetings Ben,

      I love the idea of an RSS aggregator. I tried it with about 5 or 6 RSS feeds so that I can use the ‘master’ RSS to feed into my Facebook account. It worked like a charm; I was able to see postings from my several different blogs feeding onto my Facebook wall, but after that day I no longer was receiving all of the feeds… just one post out of at least 4-5 new posts on my blogs. I waited days for them to feed through but still did not see any of my new posts coming through. How can I figure out what went wrong?

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    • Charlie says:

      I tried chimpfeedr with four sites and I found the final url and preview to be good, but once I added the link to another site, some larger pictures would not appear. Space would be allocated for the images but only some would appear. Any ideas?

      Thanks

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