Convert any website content into a RSS feed: Kimono Desktop
Kimono is a downloadable software for Mac and PC which allows you to create structured APIs from any website and which replaces its sister web app Kimonolabs as the company behind it has been bought by Palantir.
What Kimono Desktop does is to transform your selected content elements of a webpage (or series of web pages) into a structured data format like RSS, CSV or JSON. Kimono can crawl either manually or at predetermined interval your chosen URL and report back the data you have requested.
To store, archive and feed into other apps what Kimono Desktop can extract, Firebase comes to the rescue and the two services can work perfectly together.
If you have used Kimono (the web service) before, you can still access and re-use the APIs you had already created in the past.
Key features:
- Run APIs, extract new data and crawl thousands of pages all locally from your machine- Transfer all your kimono APIs to your kimono desktop account (before Mar 31, 2016)
- Firebase integration for cloud hosted JSON data
- Save crawl data to file (JSON, CSV, RSS)
- Crawl one page or thousands of pages with a single API
- Modify crawl data with javascript functions before exporting to file or firebase
100% free.
My comment: The best and most usable solution to create a RSS feed (as well as CSV and JSON outputs) from any web page, according to your own rules. Highly recommended.
Download it now: https://www.kimonolabs.com/desktop
Chrome extension (required): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kimono-desktop/hmeapcbkmejjfmphikcpgbgakfnjcade
Differences from Kimono web app (not available anymore) and Kimono Desktop: