Today's trivial tech tip: Getting RSS feeds from diaryland.com blogs

Posted on Fri 04 August 2006 in misc

diaryland.com is a hosting service for people interested in blogging without worrying too much about the technical side of things. It still exists because it predated blogger / blogspot's free services and managed to attract a community consisting of some really great writers, like my friend cloudy.

The problem is that I have become a convert to reading via RSS feed aggregators, and for the longest time I was perplexed that diaryland didn't appear to offer an RSS feed. However, I recently discovered that they do offer RSS; they just don't make it visible in any useful way. So, the solution:

If you are a diaryland blogger and you want to expose your RSS feed (not as naughty as that might sound), add the following chunk of code to your HTML template between the <head> ... </head> tags:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS feed"    href="http://blogname.diaryland.com/index.rss" />

If you just want to add the RSS feed for a diaryland blog to your own RSS feed aggregator, the URL is:

http://blogname.diaryland.com/index.rss

Posted because diaryland doesn't appear to have published this info anywhere on their own site, and **man* is it annoying to track something like this down*.

Update: Strict XHTML alert -- added the missing / in the <link> tag.