RSS Display Tool: Build a custom feed using JavaScript Page 1 Page 2

The tool below will help you format a RSS or Atom XML feed for display on your web site. It's also a great tool for presenting a summary of your own blog or other XML published data on other pages of your site. Just enter the URL for the RSS or Atom source, and select the desired options below.

1. Find an RSS or Atom XML feed [?] (e.g. RisingLine's New Media Marketing Atom feed.)

2. Set the parameters below and preview until your preferences are determined.

3. Press the "Generate JavaScript" button, cut and paste the code to your web page.

4. Use the Style Tool or see the style instructions for custom CSS formatting.

5. Spread the word!   If you use Free RSS Display please let your visitors know by adding this code to your site:

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URL Enter the web address of the RSS Feed

Note: Please verify the URL of your XML feed (make sure it presents raw RSS) and check that it is valid before using this form.

Show n' Tell!


Show channel? (yes/no/title) Display information about the publisher of the XML feed (yes=show the title and description; title= display title only, no=do not display anything)
yes title no

Number of items to display. Enter the number of items to be displayed from your selected XML feed (enter 0 to show all available)

Show/Hide XML item descriptions? How much? (0=no descriptions; 1=show full description text; n>1 = display first n characters of description; n=-1 do not link item title, just display item contents)

Use HTML in item display? ("yes" = use HTML from feed and the full item descriptions will be used, ignoring any character limit set above; "no" = output is text-only formatted by CSS; "preserve paragraphs" = no HTML but convert all RETURN/linefeeds to <br> to preserve paragraph breaks)
yes no preserve paragraphs only

Show item posting date? (yes/no) Display the time and date for each item.
yes no

Time Zone Offset (+n/-n/'feed') Date and timer are converted to GMT time; to have display in local time, you must enter an offset from your current local time to Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:02:42 +0000 (GMT). If your local time is 5 hours before GMT, enter -5. If your local time is 8 hours past GMT, enter +8. Fractional offsets such as +10:30 must be entered as decimal +10.5. If you prefer to just display the date is recorded in the RSS, use a value = feed

Target links in the new window? (n="no, links open the same page", y="yes, open links in a new window", "xxxx" = open links in a frame named 'xxxx', 'popup' = use a JavaScript function popupfeed() to open in new window)

UTF-8 Character Encoding
Required for many non-western language web pages and also may help if you see strange characters in your RSS display try replacing quotes in your output (see help pages at feed2.js.org for more information).
use UTF-8 character encoding

Podcast enclosures
For RSS 2.0 feeds with enclosures, display link to media files
yes no

Custom CSS Class (advanced users)
Use to create different styles for multiple RSS feeds per page. Specify class for content as rss-box-XXXX where XXXX is the value entered below. Style sheets must be created in accordance with Feed2JS guidelines.

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