Forget the Feed URL
July 23, 2007
Having to type in feed URLs, or grep them from view source (as you don\'t use the browser specific system) can be a pain.
The Google AJAX APIs team has created a simple way to find feeds, and to locate feeds in a URL.
findFeeds will do a Google search and return entries and feeds related to the search.
Here is an example at work:
The code you will write will look like this:
google.feeds.findFeeds(query, function(result) {
var el = document.getElementById(\"feedControl\");
if (result.error || result.entries.length