The “URL to RSS – Custom Curated RSS Feeds” plugin offers a range of powerful features to generate RSS feeds from virtually any website, providing ample flexibility in managing and customizing content for your feeds. Here’s an overview of its functionalities:
Key Features:
- URL-based RSS Generation: Generates RSS feeds from specified URLs, automating the process of content extraction and update.
- Automatic Feed Updates: Once created, RSS feeds are regularly updated with new articles from the target URLs according to a set schedule, without manual intervention.
- Web Content Crawling: Crawls through target URLs to extract content, supporting various operations like word replacement, translation, and spinning.
- Customizable Crawling Settings: Offers customizable crawling parameters including depth, rate, maximum article count, and criteria like specific class or ID.
- Content Scraping: Scraps content from nearly every website, enabling the creation of unlimited custom crawling rules and RSS feeds.
- Headless Browser API Support: Ability to scrape JavaScript-generated HTML content from websites without additional server installations (via HeadlessBrowserAPI).
- Visual Content Selection: Includes support for a visual content selector to facilitate content scraping.
- Screenshot Capture: Allows the creation of screenshots of crawled pages for use in RSS feed item content.
- Link Shortening: Ability to shorten outgoing links (and potentially monetize them) using services like Shorte.st.
- JavaScript Execution: Supports JavaScript execution for crawled pages, requiring PhantomJS installation on the server.
- Proxy Support: Set multiple proxies for crawling pages, randomly selecting one for each page access.
- Pagination Support: Enables paginated crawling for continuous article retrieval across multiple pages.
- WooCommerce Product Feed Creation: Ability to create RSS feeds for WooCommerce products.
- Translation & Text Spinner Support: Includes Google Translate support for publishing feeds in different languages and text spinner support to modify generated text.
- Categories, Cookies, and Constraints: Automatically generate feed item categories, send custom cookies with webpage requests, and define constraints for item publication based on various criteria like images, title/content length, keywords, and more.
- Featured Image Generation: Automatically generate featured images for RSS feed items.
- Customization Options: Customize RSS feed items’ title and content using a variety of relevant shortcodes and create custom tags with specific content.
- Activity Logging and Scheduled Runs: Detailed logging of plugin activities and support for scheduled rule runs.
- Extensive Customization: Create an unlimited number of RSS feeds with options for maximum/minimum title and content length, keyword-based filtering, and more.
- Rule Management: Save and restore plugin rule lists from files for easier management.
This plugin provides a comprehensive suite of tools to create and manage RSS feeds, catering to various customization needs for content extraction, manipulation, and publication.