Extract URLs links from RSS OPML

I am a long time RSS user. The demise of Google Reader still affects me. It had excellent search functionality that none of the current online RSS subscription services has. The closest thing I can do now is to make Google CSE with all the sites in my OPML subscription list.

I found this line that will spit out the urls from an OPML file:

sed -ne '/htmlUrl/ s/.*htmlUrl=\"//p' feedly.opml | sed -e 's/\".*//' > RSS_URLs.txt

sed code source

I had sed available on my machine, got with Babun.
The resuled text file was in the Unix format, so I opened it in vim and select everything and pasted to a notepad window. Now I can do as I please and make a Google custom search engine.

Get back Google Forum search

Google keeps shutting down my favourite services. Google discussion search is no longer accessible. Earlier, it used to be available if you add &tbm=dsc even that is not working now.

But here is something that is a working substitute. Add the below string to the search string:

‘inurl:forum|viewthread|showthread|viewtopic|showtopic|”index.php?topic” | intext:”reading this topic”|”next thread”|”next topic”|”send private message”‘


Also see:

1. Alternatives to Discussion Search filter
2. Google Completely removed discussion search, is there an alternative? | Reddit
3. Google Discussions search