Feeds Users not Using Google Reader for Syncing – OPML Export
October 8, 2009 — Mike (admin)This one goes out to all our users who have been around since the early days of the App Store. A long, long time ago Feeds didn’t sync with Google Reader and instead did all syncing through our servers. Once we added Google Reader support a HUGE majority of our users ditched the old way of syncing and in a way, so did we. All new features were made for Google Reader syncing only unless it was dead easy to add for old style users.We have highly recommended for a long time now that all old style users get on the Google Reader bandwagon. There are those that still have a ton of RSS feeds in the old world and don’t want to go through the torture of adding them to Reader manually. Lo and behold, this is no longer needed. We whipped up an OPML exporter for ease of transition to the Google Reader world. All you need to do is export your Feeds OPML file, import it into Google Reader and enjoy all the new features.
The OPML exporter is located at: http://ifeeder.prime31.com/export/opml/DEVICE_ID_GOES_HERE
Just replace the DEVICE_ID_GOES_HERE part with your deviceId and you will magically get an OPML file that *should* work with Google Reader. Enjoy!
Hehe, thank you very much. Talk about a fast response from the developer
You will never let me leave you app, ha
Anyway, It’s getting really late here. But I promise, I’ll try it out for sure tomorrow after work
Thanks again man
//UggaBugga
Hi again Mike,
I tried using my “Identifier (UDID)” and It almost worked
That said, i mean that all of my feeds were inside the “feedsOPMLExport.xml” file, but only the first 12 of my feeds where imported to Google reader. I’ve tried several times to import but it’s the 12 same/first feeds that import every time!
I tried deleting the first 12, hoping that it would import the next 12. But it didn’t!
Any ideas to what it could be?
@UggaBugga, use the contact us link at the top of the page and send me your deviceId so I can take a look.
I figured something out(hope this helps):
The line you see here does NOT work:
This one does:
I removed the following “?ForumID=1&&rss=1″ from xmlUrl section!
Hope this helps! You think it’s Google Reader who has import issues regarding this?
//UggaBugga
I don’t know what’s wrong here it doesn’t seem to work to post xml code here. So I’l just link to it here:
http://pastebin.com/m2c434873
//UggaBugga
Just wanted to post(if someone else was reading) that it it worked great after Mike changed formatting in link
And OMG feeds works sooo much faster too with Google Reader. I’ve should have done this ages ago
Thank you for the great support.
//UggaBugga
@UggaBugga, glad it worked out for you. We aim to please!