Perhaps, I’m easily amazed at how AI makes hard things easy. I stumbled across a micro.blog RSS feed file earlier this morning, saved it to my phone, then, maybe, went back to sleep. Later this morning, I tried to import the micro.blog RSS file into Feedbro, a fantastic browser-based RSS feed reader/aggregator. No luck. Feedbro can only handle OPML.
How to get that microblog RSS file converted into OPML?
Claude.ai to the Rescue
I found a few websites online that might do it, but it involved a lot of copying and pasting. I decided to give Claude.ai a try, and voila! After pasting in the text of the RSS file into Claude, giving it a simple prompt, it created an OPML file for me.
Import File into Feedbro
I loaded the AI-generated OPML file, and now...
Ok, it didn’t work. That try didn’t work at all. It was worth a shot. I’ll have to step back and give it another try later.
Second Try
So, I told Claude.ai, it didn’t work:
As a result, Claude generated a new file. I imported that version in:
But it didn’t work. Since there were duplicates, I removed duplicates, and edited the properties for the unique feeds:
And, it worked!
But I still wondered, could Claude modify the file to get it where it needed to be? The answer is YES:
