Page2RSS is Shutting Down

[Konstantin]

We are sad to announce that Page2RSS will be shutting down May 1st.

Thank you everybody who been patient users of our free service. The lack of time and resources to maintain and support Page2RSS service forces us to shutdown the site.

Best Regards,

Page2RSS Team

[Ted and Ann Wu]

Thank you Konstantin for the years of service from Page2Rss.  You have really been great.

Wishing all the all the best with your future endeavors.

Knowing that we are going to find another way to get our feeds, is there a service that you recommend?  It appears that Feed43 is the next best thing.  Do you have any comments?

Thank you.

Ted

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[Sumit Aggarwal]

We will miss you. Further, why not make page2rss a paid service.

Very short notice for closure. Please suggest any alternate service to go for.

Sumit Aggarwal

[Ted and Ann Wu]

All Page2RSS users/subscribers - with the sad news (and short notice) that this service will be going down in 7 days, I have been trying to find an alternative service.

Looking at other sites:

- feed43.com (too complicated)

- feedity.com (too expensive)

- AlternativeTo (just bad)

I have not found a site that does quite what page2RSS does so simply and elegantly.

Konstantin, might there be a way to sustain this service 'for fee'?  I think that many of us could afford a reasonable monthly/annual fee for the Page2RSS service.  (all - please reply if you fee the same).

Alternatively to the group - if you have found any other 'like' service that you feel the group should be aware of, would you please Reply to All with this information?

Thank you.

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 4:53 PM Konstantin <kza...@page2rss.com> wrote:

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[Michael Paul]

That's sad news. Page2RSS was the best way to monitor web pages.

For those who are looking for an alternative, here are a few other services more or less similar to Page2RSS (but which only look for text changes, not for pictures):
- Change Detection ( http://www.changedetection.com/ ): pages are checked once a day and you can choose to be notified by RSS or email (I will use that to replace Page2RSS).
- Watchthatpage ( http://www.watchthatpage.com/ ): you can choose how often the pages are checked for changes but it's only by email (no RSS).
- Page2feed ( http://ic.edge.jp/page2feed/ ): pages are checked in real time but it doesn't work like Page2RSS because it's looking for links to convert them to RSS entries.
- PageMon.net (https://pagemon.net/): it has been on "pre-alpha stage" for years and I don't like the way the changes are shown.

And, of course there are other, more traditional, services to create RSS feeds, but not with the same purpose as Page2RSS:
feedyes.com (you have to pay), feedity.com (you have to pay), feed43.com, ...

[Ted and Ann Wu]

Michael,

Thanks for the share.  I have been looking at changedetection.com - right now I use The Old Reader as my RSS Reader.  While the changedetection.com site is clean, it is not too clear where it sends its notifications to or how to get a URL for my RSS Reader to collect these entries.

Any suggestions/comments?

Thanks.

Ted

[Michael Paul]

On changedetection.com, (when you are logged in) you can get the RSS feed URL if you click (on the right side menu) on RSS feed. There is only one RSS feed for all your monitored web pages. When you add a web page, on the second step you can choose to be notified by email OR RSS.

[Ricky Lomey]

Thanks, I'm not really using the net still after all these years and though with apaid ISP but I tried using change detection via email years ago but it did not actually tell you what the changes were usually in my experiences. Been using watch that page for years also for emails and should actually use them again. In terms of he RSS I use blogtrottr as my RSS subscription source by adding to blogtrottr. In terms of including pictures though I only joined page2rss very late so didn't receive too many emails but I suppose when it says imbedded content it means there are pictures which can make it difficult for screen readers for the blind though and sometimes it says unable to retrieve full content but I'll look into the other services Michael mentions below but it seems sometimes content appears in some Twitter feeds etc that have nothing to do with the page one is reading and pity there is no way to read face book feeds.

 

Thanks also to Delta feed for mentioning themselves on this list and there is also five filters.org and I used fulltextrss.com but it seems to battle with many of my subscribtions and I have not heard from certain ones for literally a year or so from today but thanks anyway for the shares. Pity Feeddude never worked and gave some strange responses when one tried to contact them or subscribe.

 

 

Ricky Lomey

 

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[Michel Oleynik]

Just got caught by the service shutdown. Is there any way to extract back the monitored websites from the old Page2RSS hashes?

As an alternative service, I've been testing https://visualping.io for a few months by now. It includes a free tier with full functionality, but limited to 60 checks per month (e.g. 15 URLs checked weekly). There are paid plans if you need more. The checks are done with a real browser (no JS) on a selection you draw (useful on websites with a date header/footer) and you get notifications via email, Slack, RSS feed or any webhook of your choice. You can customize the check interval (from "every 5 minutes" to "every month") and the notification trigger (from 0% to 50% change).

[S LN]

Alternatively you may choose http://bitreading.com/deltafeed with CSS selectors, delivery via E-Mail or RSS, AdBlocking, management dashboard

[winflow...@gmail.com]

Hi Konstantin, i may offer you FREE web hosting for life if u still want to continue the free services page2RSS.