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You now can get a RSS feed of any XDA forum thread.

Quickstart

Look up the thread number of the thread you want to convert into a RSS feed. The thread number is the the t-parameter in the URL. The thread number from this thread for instance is 1975124.

Go to this Yahoo Pipes page and enter the thread number

Click on the "Run Pipe" button

Click on the "Get as RSS" link and copy that link to your RSS reader

If you want to filter the messages by author or keyword, you can do that too. Enter the desired values, and click on the "Run Pipe" button again. When satisfied, click on the "Get as RSS" link again and copy that to your RSS reader

Manual configuration

The URL for the RSS feed of this thread would be:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=a41f01f197a7b89b1fcf6b72b3964a9a&_render=rss&t=1975124

If you want to get the RSS of another thread, change the last part of the URL (the t=1975124 part) and point it to the correct thread.

Other URL parameters you can use are "author", to filter messages by author and "match" to filter messages by any word or phrase. If you want to experiment with the parameters, go to this Yahoo pipes page. There you can enter the individual parameters and see the result directly by clicking on the "Run Pipe" button. When satisfied, copy the "Get as RSS" link to your RSS reader.

Some examples:

&t=1975124 The RSS feed of this thread. The "t" URL parameter specifies the thread from which the RSS feed will be generated

&t=1975124&author=.oOOo. Show only messages by ".oOOo."

&t=1975124&match=version Show only messages that contain the word "version"

&t=1975124&match=(?i)version Show only messages that contain the word "version", "Version", "VERSION" or any other combination of upper- and lowercase letters.

&t=1975124&author=(It_ler|tonyp) Both the author and match field will take a regular expression as an argument. If you want to see messages from more then one author, use the "(author1|author2|author3)" syntax

Known bugs / problems:

https://twitter.com/feedly/status/357730680794382337

If you want to subscribe to multiple XDA feeds, they will all have the same name. Workaround: Rename the feeds in your RSS reader

The RSS feed will only list posts on the last three pages of the forum thread. Make sure you don't miss any posts by adjusting the update frequency in your RSS reader

The RSS preview on the Yahoo Pipes page can sometimes remain blank. This is caused by a javascript error, and doesn't affect the display in your RSS reader

Messages posted between 22:00 and 23:59 can show up twice under two different dates. XDA uses 'Today' and "Yesterday' to indicate messages posted in the last two days. 'Today' on the XDA server might be a different date from 'Today' on the Yahoo server.

Version history:

2012-11-05: Alpha 0.1

Initial release

2012-11-06: Alpha 0.2

Items now have correctly formatted date time stamps

URL's to single posts are now formatted differently. Your RSS reader will get duplicate posts once for a maximum of 20 items.

HTML tags are removed from item title (XDA usernames sometimes are displayed with HTML formatting)

2012-11-11: Alpha 0.3

Time stamps are now converted to CET

Improved RSS generation for threads with only two pages

10 more items in the RSS feed (three pages instead of two)

Recieve update messages directly in your RSS reader

2012-11-11: Alpha 0.4

URL extraction would sometimes fail, resulting in duplicate messages of which only one was correct

If a message was deleted, all later messages would be downloaded twice. The postcount is now removed from the URL to prevent this in the future

2012-11-20: Alpha 0.5

You can now filter what messages you will see in the RSS feed. I'f you're only interested in messages by .oOOo. (or quote .oOOo.), add the &match=.oOOo. to the URL like this:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=a41f01f197a7b89b1fcf6b72b3964a9a&_render=rss&t=1975124 &match=.oOOo.

The match string can be a regular expression and is case sensitive by default. If you want to match case insensitive, start the match string with (?i)

The resulting string would be: &match=(?i).oOOo.

2012-12-17: Alpha 0.6

New in this version is the option to filter messages by author. By adding &author=.oOOo. to the URL, only messages from that author will be shown in the RSS feed.

You can combine both the author and match parameters. So if you only want to see messages from .oOOo. that contain the word "version" use these URL parameters: &author=.oOOo.&match=version

Special thanks go to hapdaniel, a real Yahoo Pipes Guru, who helped me with a timezone problem. With this change timestamps will be converted correctly during both summer and winter time.

2013-04-15: Alpha 0.7

Messages on the first page of a thread are now always included in the RSS feed

If an author updates a message, it will be included in the RSS feed again with the updated text

Links in the RSS feed, will now load the full page on XDA so you can see the message in context. Previously you would only see a page with that single message

Messages are sorted by time of last update

The RSS welcome / update message, now has been moved to the end of the RSS feed

2013-05-15: Alpha 0.7.1

RSS feeds seem to get truncated the last couple of days. As a quick patch I've reversed the order in which the pages are scanned for messages. Messages on the last page are now more likely to make it all the way to the end of the Pipe and into your RSS reader.

2013-05-18: Alpha 0.7.2

hapdaniel gave me some good advise on how to optimize the regular expressions that convert the XDA pages to RSS messages. Conversion is now about six (!) times faster.