Feedbin “Likes” Can Now Be Turned Into a Feed — and a Page
A recent discovery shows that Feedbin, the RSS service at the core of many reading setups, can do more than consume feeds—it can also produce one for your “likes.” The Likes feature exists in Feedbin and syncs with NetNewsWire, but only after you flip a settings switch in Feedbin. Once enabled, you get a dedicated URL for your liked items.
There’s a catch: the resulting feed isn’t CORS-ready, so pulling it directly into a front-end page requires running it through a proxy. That hasn’t stopped a couple of developers from building JavaScript-powered “likes” pages—Dave Rupert and Robin Rendle both have one—demonstrating the pattern is workable despite the extra step.
The author hasn’t committed to building a likes page yet, but if they do, WordPress Transients is a likely route, noting prior experience with that approach (it’s how their jobs page is powered).
As a bonus, it turns out you can also style an RSS feed itself, using XSLT and XML transformations to render feed content as an HTML page.
