How do I feed RSS into Ping.fm?

Thanks for the idea. Unfortunately you have to verify the address and that's not easy using as the important information is truncated from the post :-(

So basically, the answer is that it can not be done.

SO.... we found a way to feed a blog feed (rss feed) to ping yet?

I'm user twitterfeed instead

Anything new on this?

At the moment the answer seems to depend on the exact mix of services you use. I figure that probably the best way could be via Yahoo Pipes and the Ping.fm custom URL feature -- but that's just guessing on my part.

Is there an update regarding this third party developer?

Yeah, not to nag about this, but this feature would turn the service into something monumentally useful to a lot of people, particularly because of Myspace's refusal to make its blogging system import feeds.

I'm trying to make pingfeed at the moment but I'm having trouble with the rss/atom checking feature where it checks the feed every 30 min for updates to it......I most likely won't be ready for a while though, or untill I figure out how to make the rss/atom checker (its kinda hard to do it in php).

I am not 100% sure what you are struggling with, but there's actually a very usable PHP script that reads RSS feeds at http://www.feedforall.com. I use a modified version (as some features didn't quite work). It takes my blogger feed and makes an html page out of it

From http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMotion... to http://themotionsick.com/themotionsic...

It works quite well for me.

thanks I will look into that

Not exactly what I was looking for...I was going to have php script on a cron job detect if there had been any changes to a feed (like a new blog post) then ping it if their was one.

Ya thanks I'll do that. Pingfeeder will most likely be one of my easier projects to make.

Any progress on this one?

yea be really interested in this but i know anthonyk got a lot going on at mo so give him time :D

I've got around this problem by using twitterfeed to post to twitter and identi.ca. Jaiku and FriendFeed support RSS feeds directly (Jaiku albeit on a very delayed cycle).

The rest I try not to care about :-)

@Alec Clews ya I actually use twitter feed for a number of things also but one of the main reasons I am making pingfeed is because many people would like the ability to have automatic feed pings/updates to more services than twitter feed offers. Like blogger or their myspace blog or their plurk. With twitter feed you can't do that. With pingfeed you will be able to it will support automated pinging on feed updates and can post them to a certain service (ex.facebook), update type (status, blog, micro blog), or custom trigger you make on ping.fm . This best part is is that this along with pingitlater or pingulater (haven't decided on the name yet) will both be integrated with my widget so you can setup a future ping or have it ping a feed update or just send a normal ping from your desktop from my widget. The reason I can do this is because believe it or not all of my widgets are web based (So I daily make changes to my widget and no one has to update). That's one of my goals, which is something twitter feed can not offer. I think twitter feed is a good service though and is actually where I got my idea for pingfeed from :) .

Thanks for all the gread information anthonyk!

Your welcome

:)

:) UPDATE: Ok we have started making the phrasing part of the rss feeder script, its all written i php by the way. Once that is done we will move on to some very minor tests and then release it into public beta

Keep us posted

I will

Keep us posted. Seems like there is no free service on that.

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Raqueeb Hassan
Bangladesh

So what's the progress on this... I've been waiting oh so patiently. Thanks in advance for all of your hard work. ~Ryan, CGBlog.org

Right now I am just working on a couple things that i have left. I have been working really hard on it though, so as a result pingfeed should be up for beta by October. I still need to buy a domain for it so any donations for the domain would be appreciated. Normally I would just host it on a sub domain or directory of my personal site but this things will draw a lot more bandwidth so I want it to have its own hosting so it doesn't down all of my projects.

If you would like to sign up on the beta list now please send an email to admin AT mytechwatch DOT com until I can get a domain for the project.

I made a small application which is posting rss feeds to ping fm.
It works now though it needs improvements. I currently work from my developer key ..what is the process of obtaining a global developer key?

Another issue... when posting api with status updates it works, for some reason the blog dont work, although I get a status OK when I post it.

Oh the teasing better end soon... I'm getting excited here.

If you use Wordpress there is a plugin to do it:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/p...

Hey I got pingfeed working after rewriting the code a lot. Right now I am working on a logo and some filter functions along with perfecting the intelligence of it of was that feed already pinged or not. I am also fixing up my cron job to start running on set intervals to run the functions to see if a feed needs to be pinged. As of right now though I am only activating my two test accounts/feeds because of cron setup issues but you can sign up for an account to be given to you as soon as the cron is fixed.

Here's an example post to my twitter from a feed update http://twitter.com/gamers600/status/1...

As of right now you have the ability to select the feed update to be posted to your status, micro-blogs, or blogs on twitter (custom post triggers coming soon). IN addition on blog postings you can add text before or after all of your feed posts to it.

As of right now though we have some cron issues but if you wud like to sign up to get an account as soon as that is fixed be my guest. Also if you have a blog or have a way of making a web page be visited or pinged (ex. pignomatic) when a feed is update or a post is added, then send me a message because you can bypass this whole not having cron working and use pingfeed.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions on pingfeed please email anthony{at}mytechwatch{dot}com.

Thanks,
Anthony

P.S. If you already emailed me about being interested in pingfeed I have not forgotten about you and plan to give you access to pingfeed 2 days before i release it to the public to get general feedback on if anything shud be changed or anything.

Also i know the interface right now is sucky but at least I've gotten the thing working, but I will redesign the interface later after I've gotten the cron fixed.

Here the url to the service:
http://anthonykosednar.com/pingfeed

@anthonyk
Awesome - can't wait to see this released to the public! :D

The script is ready for testing at
http://www.seoatwork.com/pingfm2rss
it is not very cosmetically appealing.
If you help me test the script , i will release it asap.
The script need php curl and cron to make it work.
It will sit in your web server and checks for new post and post it to ping.fm
@Adam I have sent you an email with my account details. Hope you have enabled the developer key.

I have tested it with few different RSS feeds and it works.
I want you to help me test it .
Right now you have to put your application key in and a feed and it will post the last 3 feeds in the post to ping.fm.
Once properly tested , i will make the script available for download and you can change the parameters like how often you want to check it etc and you can run the system from your own web server.
I did think of a hosted solution but as Anthony is already doing one , it is better for me to do it this way
Regards
Sunil

http://pingvine.com/

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I was using feedburner to send RSS as emails to my ping.fm, and it worked very well.

testing out pingvine right now...

twitterfeed.com does not support Ping.fm triggers does pingvine?

Yes pingvine does

Now that notify.me supports Ping.fm, it is another option.

Create an account in twitterfeed.com. From there you can post your feed to Twitter, facebook, ping.fm etc. I post my feed to ping.fm via Twitterfeed & through ping.fm I post to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Gtalk, Ning & many more social media sites.

Good luck

I have been able to succesfully get a RSS to ping.fm via twitterfeed as suggested above.

The problem I'm having is that some sites like Twitter will only update via micro-blog. Others like Bebo need a blog. Ping.fm enables one to set up posting groups to get round this but they dont seem to work when one is using an automatic feed like twtterfeed.

Does anyone have any ideas how to solve this?