If you use Apple Mail as your RSS reader, then you might have noticed that there's no easy way to backup your RSS URLs. Well, somebody over at MacOSXHints.com wrote a simple shell script which will export your feed URLs to the shell. The script is:
This can be easily modified to export the URLs to a file called "Mail Feeds" on your desktop:
If the command line isn't for you, I've written a simple applescript which allows you to either export to the clipboard or to a file. You can download it by clicking on this link.
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4/23/08
Leopard Only: Export Mail's RSS Feeds
IFS=$'\n';for i in $(find ~/Library/Mail/RSS/ -name "Info.plist");do grep "http://" $i | sed "s/.*\(http[^<]*\).*/\1/";done
IFS=$'\n';for i in $(find ~/Library/Mail/RSS/ -name "Info.plist");do grep "http://" $i | sed "s/.*\(http[^<]*\).*/\1/" >> ~/Desktop/Mail\ Feeds.txt;done
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8 comments:
The script worked perfectly - thanks!!
You have done a good thing..
Thanks for the info, but it threw some errors at me. I went through the sites and your app and made my own app to export all the mail rss feeds into an opml file since that's what I was looking for. Put the file up here.
Thank you for this! I've been experimenting with different ways to handle RSS for weeks now, and I've finally decided Apple Mail just isn't the way to do it. Thanks for making the transition easier!
Patrick, thanks a lot, that's really useful. Unfortunately NetNewsWire wouldn't import that opml. I'm looking at the two formats (I exported my NNW feeds to opml for comparison) but I can't figure out what the difference could possibly be... except perhaps the /order/ of the attributes for each feed? Weird.
thanks a whole bunch! that worked greatly!
you're the one.
Hi Patrick,
the link to your file doesnt seem to work anymore :(
Can you repost a link to your file?
Thanks!
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