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NehaVageriya
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9 years ago
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Connecting to RSS Feed

I have been triying to connect to RSS Feed for a website but couldnt understand how to. I used Web connection but found out its just read data from that page. Have seen just one previous similar pos...
  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    9 years ago

    I would think that since RSS is just XML, you should be able to use the XML connector to connect to an RSS feed. I tested this and even though the XML connector brings up a file dialog, you can paste in an HTML link and connect to it successfully and expand its XML as needed. 

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Greg_Deckler
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9 years ago

I would think that since RSS is just XML, you should be able to use the XML connector to connect to an RSS feed. I tested this and even though the XML connector brings up a file dialog, you can paste in an HTML link and connect to it successfully and expand its XML as needed. 

  • cholton's avatar
    cholton
    Frequent Visitor
    4 years ago

    That's a method I tried before coming to search here. No dice for me.