I bet you didn't know how easy it is to get your My Yahoo! subscriptions as an OPML file.
If you're a My Yahoo! user, point your browser to this URL:
http://api2.my.yahoo.com/2.0/content/getsubs
and you'll be greeted by an OPML representation of your subscriptions.
The catch is that you need to be already logged in--that is, you need a valid Yahoo! cookie for it to work. If you're already using My Yahoo! regularly, that's a non-issue. When a more web services friendly login/auth API appears someday, you'll be able to automate the process to backup or sync your subs with a blogroll, etc.
Enjoy.
Posted by jzawodn at September 19, 2005 09:47 PM
Oh joy, another huge square peg shoved into one of Winer's round holes. You know, not EVERYTHING benefits from being in outline format.
Of course not everything benefits from an outline format; however, OPML is the default import/export format of 99% of all aggregators and, therefore, useful.
Jeremy, My Yahoo! doesn't allow importing OPML files, does it?
jagadish
If it was exposed without the login stuff it'd be a lot easier for users to search within their feeds on Feedster, as you can currently do with any online OPML file (and there's a shortcut for Bloglines).
Well, I have three pages, and this is the OPML that I get. I would consider this pretty useless. :(
<opml version="1.1">
-
<head>
<title>My Yahoo! Subscriptions</title>
<dateCreated>Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:14:15 PDT</dateCreated>
<ownerName> cmhbytehead </ownerName>
</head>
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<body>
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<outline title="Subscriptions">
<outline title="First post!">
</outline>
<outline title="Feed me! #2">
</outline>
<outline title="Feed Me! #3">
</outline>
</outline>
</body>
</opml>
I used to use Omea Reader, but my.yahoo.com is more convenient. The only problem? I can't import OPML into my.yahoo.com -- I tried using the beta RSS module, but it says it's unavailable.
I hope this feature is going to come back.
Thanks for the tip, Jeremy. FYI it only worked in Firefox for me.
awesome! I found this in the search results via My Web 2.0, I've been looking for a way to export my Y! to OPML for a while now, thanks a million!
Frustratingly the opml export link in your original post above seems to have stopped working - is there a new one which works??? Thanks!
(moan: it's very frutrating that in the My Yahoo help pages they suggest using the export opml feature commonly found in other feed readers to import friends' feeds into My Yahoo to help you get started. This is precisely what I want to do but in reverse, yet Yahoo make it impossible for me to do so...)
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Google Reader help refers the user here.
So nice... I could use this feature to display BubbleInfoBox from Y!M Plus 2.0 :o)
Ugh,
I thought I had found an answer to my question of the day and it doesn't work. Anyway someone can get this feature up again!
Thanks
Mike
I don't know what y'all's problem was but the link above works beautifully for me.. Right click the link, "save as" to your desktop, go back to Google Reader, import the file, boom there you go.
At least it worked for me with FireFox. :-D
Now the Yahoo! Mail Beta has ads all over it I am moving my RSS feeds to Google. If I have to look at ads on a mail service I pay for I am done.
Hi,
I tried to use Yahoo! BBAuth to sign-in on this ressources... Login success, but receive OPML without feeds.
May I more success with PHP HTTP client like Spoony ?
Perhaps Yahoo! Mail API have same ressource. Arf, can't talk with Ryan before Saturday :o(
NB: I would like use it for London Hackday... http://hackbox.miaouw.net ;o)
Anyway someone can get this feature up again!
Greg,
http://www.anarsist.org/
A great read, very informative
Been looking for a blog like this one for a while
Keep up the good work.
Frustratingly the opml export link in your original post above seems to have stopped working - is there a new one which works??? Thanks!
I thought I had found an answer to my question of the day and it doesn't work. Anyway someone can get this feature up again!
Despite the earlier comments that claim it doesn't work, it worked for me today. However, the view from Firefox (below) doesn't show the list of blog subscriptions. Instead you need to save it or view the source.
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My Yahoo! Subscriptions
Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:19:06 PST
davesickmiller
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I tried exporting from Yahoo using the link, saving the output OPML, and then importing into Google. I got an error when importing, so after reading the comments here I went back via Firefox, viewed source, and saved the source to an OPML file. That seemed to work. I was able to transfer my MyYahoo info into Google Reader and can now be rid of MyYahoo. Woo Hoo! :)
Worked fine for me today, Jan 9, 2008. I imported the file into the FREE-as-of-today NewNewsWire for mac, and it worked great.
THanks so much!
Jeff.
ok... it's NETnewswire for mac.
all of the newsgator.com personal rss readers are now free as of Jan 9, 2008
http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/
Jeff
what a hassle Im back to nnw now is free, syncs with newsgator and still is one of the best RSS readers ever made.
Kevin Sender
I would be nice to have a link from the MyYahoo page somewhere (e.g. edit content, ...)
Well, it didn't work for My Yahoo! I tried exporting the feeds as an OPML file and opening them in Bloglines. However, I was able to export my Bloglines feeds as an OPML file and successfully import them into Google Reader. So maybe there are some OPML flavours-type issues.
I can see this being potentially useful in applications such as people who have to monitor a whole lot of web sites to compile an abstracting/indexing service, and who wish to share that bunch of feeds.
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Actually it still does work, your browser just isn't rendering the file. OPML is an xml file, so your browser won't display it (unless your browser is IE).
If you go to "view source" in your browser you'll see it's all there.
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Im new user and try to understand the term and uses of services.
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Rehman
Thanks for the tips well i must say its only work in my RRS
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Hey,
This API now returns an empty OPML to me no matter what. Any ideas ? Are there any alternate APIs ?
Thanks.
Hey, I have now got bloglines, Google Reader and MyYahoo for my rss feeds.
I prefer Google Reader and would like to know please how to import the others into that? I am sure it must be possible, but I cant seem to work it out.
Thanks all
think this feature is dead - used to work for me a while ago, but now I get:
β
My Yahoo! Subscriptions
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:40:35 UTC
My Y! Name
β
β
I tried IE, Firefox etc, even traced it. i think it is not 'masked' or something
my above posting got somewhat amputated - trying again.
the link suggested gives:
β
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My Yahoo! Subscriptions
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:21:13 UTC
My y name
β
β
not having a lot of luck file get interpretated, but the end where all the feeds should be says:
ws5.feeds.ukl.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Tue Sep 22 12:39:42 GMT 2009
Does not work for me :-( I get the feeds "compressed/chunked" as well, and no detail in my OPML file. It might be because I have multiple pages in MyYahoo.
Groan...I love MyYahoo but I want to get these feeds into Google so that I can use the Google Reader client on my iPhone.
Just returns an empty page now. Can feeds be exported in any other format? Anything?
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Evidently the API on which this feature was based has been deprecated. (gripe: "deprecated" normally means "still available but going away soon", but this one evidently appears to be gone now.)
The text for the individual feeds is actually in the source code - go to my.yahoo.com, view source, and search for the text "feedUrl". It would be pretty easy to write a script to transform those into an OPML file. Not that I'm volunteering :)
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