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Testing RSS feeds

I am looking to test an RSS Feed I have created and I am looking for some good RSS Feed applications to test with.

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Circa 2009, one great answer was the python library and website at http://www.feedvalidator.org/. It was supposed to be very picky and have lots of tests.

The code still exists at https://github.com/rubys/feedvalidator but hasn’t gotten much attention since circa 2008. It could be a good starting point for a newly-updated library. All the tests could make that easier; there’s a py3 branch with a bit of progress on it.

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Don't forget Outlook. Large market share and its own quirks.

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RSS Reader applications - Greatnews

Online RSS reader - Google Reader

Also, some useful FF add-ons for such:

Simple RSS reader

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It would be worth testing the feed in Safari.

Also, if you're using Mac OS X, here are some good applications to test it in:

NetNewsWire
Apple Mail (comes with OS X)
NewsFire
Times

However, if it is a valid feed, you should be OK.

Steve

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JPrescottSanders

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Firefox should work well enough for basic testing. You could also try using Google reader.

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Don't just try a bunch and see if it works -validate it. Let me google those for you:

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