Xanga Feed Fixer

As I lamented in an old blog entry, Xanga’s RSS feeds are broken. This short Perl script allows you to fix them for use in any RSS reader that requires complaint feeds.

Comments, bug reports, and other issues can be discussed on my forums.

Download

Xanga Feed Fixer
[ source ] [ .tar.gz ] [ .zip ]

Installation and Usage

  1. Upload the script to a webserver that can run Perl/CGI scripts.
  2. If necessary, change the .pl extension to .cgi.
  3. Subscribe to a Xanga feed by using the URL of the script with ?friend=XANGANAME appended, where XANGANAME is the Xanga username of the person to whose feed you would like to subscribe.

Your URL should look something like one of these.

  • http://www.example.com/xanga.pl?friend=XANGANAME
  • http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/xanga.cgi?friend=XANGANAME

You might also read the comments at my blog entry for a way that you can run the script locally (without a webserver) if you are running a beta version of NetNewsWire 2.0b. Thanks to Matt for the helpful feedback!

Version History and Changelog

0.1 - 2004-07-12 [ source | .tar.gz | .zip ]
Initial release. It didn’t get its release number until 2005-03-08 though.