HowTo: Use Page2RSS to monitor web sites

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Page2RSS is a delightful, free service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS aggregator whenever the contents of the page change.

To generate a feed for a web page,

  1. Go to the Page2RSS home page and input the address of the page you want to monitor.
  2. Click the "to RSS" button
  3. Copy the link to your RSS reader

That's it!

[edit] Why?

Some of the web pages I'm interested in don't have an RSS feed. In fact, even some blogs don't have feeds (we're talking about you, NASA). Page2RSS checks the pages on a regular basis, and whenever it finds a change it updates its RSS feed so the new information shows up in my feed reader.

Examples:

Space feeds
Original page Page2RSS feed
Kennedy Media Gallery http://page2rss.com/rss/017b9b70ebec70c4649d66eb9993abcf
Planetary Photojournal: Mars http://page2rss.com/rss/de3306580431f82c8e147351bf4f908e
Mars Rovers Pancam False Color http://page2rss.com/rss/cb795f5d4b72f5daa046b95d39f37b5d
Mars Rovers Pancam True Color http://page2rss.com/rss/b317524f9eebd8feeb9c7340cdf689d3
Cassini-Huygens: Raw Images http://page2rss.com/rss/2124bfdb7cd98f3b5150ec8a7ac7cccc

Here's what the Cassini raw images page looks like in Google Reader: