Exporting IE7 RSS Feeds
I have been using Internet Explorer 7 for a month or two now and am really enjoying the built-in RSS feed subscription tool. I know I know, I often hear — “You must be the only Web professional I know that isn’t using Firefox!!” (Many of you may ask why I am using IE7? well the reason is pretty straightforward, I totally rely on using Dragon NaturallySpeaking for typing and I find it just doesn’t work too well on Firefox at the moment.)
Anyway I digress. Recently I have been viewing plenty of commentary talking up the merits of Google Reader so I have decided that I will give it a test run for a week or two.
First thing that I did was to sign on and take a quick look around Google Reader. I have never really been one for instructions so decided to head straight over to begin adding subscriptions and soon realised that I have way too many to warrant typing them in. My dilemma was how the hell do I export my RSS feeds from IE7? I couldn’t remember seeing any functionality that would allow this in my travels around the browser.
It turns out that it is pretty simple:
Go to the add favourites icon
Select the option to import and export favourites
In the following wizard choose the option to export feeds
Save the file to an easy location to remember
Close the Wizard
That’s about it. All that I need to do now is go to Google reader and import the file that I have just saved with all my feed information.
