Feed Control: New Features for Webpage to RSS Conversion
AI-Powered Item Detection and Headless Browser Mode
We've just rolled out two new Feed Control features which we hope you'll find useful.
Feed Control allows you to create custom RSS or JSON feeds from websites that don't offer their own. You can turn any set of items on a site into a subscribable feed that updates whenever new content appears. Feed Creator is usually used to target a regularly updated section on a website, e.g. a news section or jobs listing.
AI-Powered Item Detection
Our latest update introduces automatic item detection that's enabled by default. This AI-driven feature identifies relevant items and generates the appropriate selectors automatically.
Previously, users needed technical knowledge of HTML and CSS selectors to create feeds. Now, Feed Creator handles this complexity for you. When successful, it automatically configures the advanced selector settings based on what it finds.
While our testing shows excellent results across many websites, there may be cases where manual configuration is still needed – either when the AI cannot identify suitable selectors or selects unwanted items. In these situations, you can still set selectors manually as before.
Headless browser mode for dynamically loaded content
Our new headless browser feature lets you capture dynamically loaded items – useful for websites that rely on JavaScript to display items.
To use this feature:
Click the dropdown menu next to the URL field
Select GET (JS)
This solution now enables feed creation from previously unsupported sites that load items through API calls or other JavaScript-based methods.
We hope you enjoy these new features. You can try them out now. Please let us know if you experience any issues or have suggestions for improvement.