import rss feed into excel ( rss --> excel )

[Thufir]

I've been searching, but so far don't see much on how to import an rss
feed, such as craigslist, into an excel spreadsheet. I'm looking for
a quick and dirty, and free, solution. I don't mind if it's labor
intensive. I'm not looking for a script, but but just a (free) tool.


thanks,

Thufir

 

[Harlan Grove]

I've been searching, but so far don't see much on how to import an
rss feed, such as craigslist, into an excel spreadsheet. I'm looking
for a quick and dirty, and free, solution. I don't mind if it's
labor intensive. I'm not looking for a script, but but just a (free)
tool.

You couldn't have been searching that hard. A Google search on +Excel
+"RSS Feed" gives over 12 million hits. The second (when I ran it)
leads to

http://www.puremis.net/excel/soft/EaZyRss.shtml

I have no idea how well this works or not. OTOH, I do know that
receiving RSS feeds is something for which Excel is ill-suited, like
misusing Excel as a word processor. That it can be done doesn't imply
that it should be done, but each of us gets to make our own mistakes.

 

[Thufir]

You couldn't have been searching that hard. A Google search on +Excel
+"RSS Feed" gives over 12 million hits. The second (when I ran it)
leads to

http://www.puremis.net/excel/soft/EaZyRss.shtml

I have no idea how well this works or not. OTOH, I do know that
receiving RSS feeds is something for which Excel is ill-suited, like
misusing Excel as a word processor. That it can be done doesn't imply
that it should be done, but each of us gets to make our own mistakes.

http://paperboy.sourceforge.net/index.html

is more what I had in mind. That is, the data starts from a database,
gets published as rss. how to get it back to a database? However,
this seems to require xslt, wheras I'm looking for something more
"clicky-pointy".



thanks,

Thufir