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10 RSS Aggregator Tools to Combine RSS Feeds

Merge and Combine Two or More RSS Feeds Into One

By , About.com Guide

If you have more than one blog but don’t want to inconvenience your readers by asking them to subscribe to a bunch of separate RSS feeds, you can actually combine two or more RSS feeds into one with the help of an RSS aggregator tool. This kind of tool will pull together all your feeds into one main feed, which will update as you publish new content on the blogs that are included in that feed.

Here are ten different aggregator tools you can use to create your own aggregated feed for free.

1. RSS Mix

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Combining a bunch of feeds into one really doesn’t get any simpler with RSS Mix. All you have to do is enter the full URL address of a particular feed—one on each line—and then press the “Create!” button. There’s no limit to how many feeds you can combine. RSS Mix will automatically give you a URL address to your aggregated feed, which you can use to keep your readers updated on everything, all in one place.

2. Feed Killer

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Feed Killer is another very easy tool to use for combining RSS feeds. Combine as many feeds as you want by entering the full URL into separate input labels. What’s different about Feed Killer is that you can choose how many “stories” you want to show up in the custom feed. Press “add more” to add as many feeds as you like and then press “build it” to create your custom aggregated feed.

3. Feed Stitch

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Feed Stitch will first ask you to sign in via Google, Twitter, Yahoo!, Facebook, AOL or OpenID after you press the “Get Started” button. Once signed in, you can start combining feeds not only using regular RSS or Atom feeds, but also with Twitter feeds, Flickr feeds, Delicious feeds, Github feeds and Tumblr feeds. You can even create groups of feeds and store them on Feed Stitch.

4. ChimpFeedr

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If you don’t need a lot of customizable options and all you really need is to bring together a bunch of feeds as quickly and easily as possible, ChimpFeedr can do that for you. Simply copy and paste the full URL of the feed into the label box and add as many feeds as you like. Press the big “Chomp Chomp!” button and you are good to go with your brand new aggregated feed.

5. BlastCasta

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If you are picky about customizing your combined feed options, BlastCasta may be the tool for you. Add as many feeds as you want, sort them, translate them, format them, suppress the images or remove the HTML tags from them if you like. You can preview what your aggregated feed looks like on the right side and copy the finished feed URL when you get the desired results.

6. Jumbra

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With Jumbra, you can enter the URL of your feeds’ addresses to quickly combine them together. You can combine up to three of them into one aggregated feed on the homepage but must sign up for a free account if you would like to combine an unlimited number of feeds into a single one.

7. BlogSieve

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The layout isn’t the most amazing thing to look at and feed combining is only limited to five feeds per aggregated feed, but BlogSieve gets the job done when it comes to feed merging and keeping it simple. Just add the URL addresses of your feeds and press “Continue” or “Add Another Feed” to build your aggregated feed.

8. Feed Informer

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Feed Informer offers the best of both worlds in terms of RSS combining. If you’re looking to combine a few feeds quickly, simply use the form on the front page by entering the URL addresses. Alternatively, you can sign up for a free account to choose output options, customize your aggregated feed template and publish your feed digest.

9. Tarpie

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Although Tarpie is known for tools other than RSS aggregation, it recently added the option to merge feeds into one for users who sign up for a free account. You can automate your publishing, share your content more easily and even keep a backlog of your activity with Tarpie.

10. Yahoo! Pipes

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If you already have a Yahoo! account, you can use it to sign into Yahoo! Pipes where you can start creating and connecting RSS feeds using their interactive pipe platform. You set the RSS feeds you want to combine as “pipes” to produce an output to one main, aggregated feed. You can also keep track of your pipes and update them as needed.

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