In this article I’m going to share 7 Great Online Feeds Validation Tools, which will be really useful to identify and fix invalid feeds.
Why You Should Validate Feeds?
From W3C, Validators help you to codify the specification (literally, to translate it into code) to make it easier to know when you’re producing RSS correctly, and to help you fix it when you’re not.
Many feed readers (including Google’s FeedBurner service) will not accept invalid blog/site feeds. So it is better to validate your site’s feeds first.
I mentioned 7 free feeds validation tools here and, to my knowledge, they are genuine!
1. Feedvalidator.org
This is a validator for syndicated feeds. It works with RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0. It also validates Atom feeds. To use it, simply enter the address of your feed and click Validate. If the validator finds any problems in your feed, it will give you messages for each type of problem and highlight where the problem first occurs in your feed.
2. W3C Validator
This is the W3C Feed Validation Service, a free service that checks the syntax of Atom or RSS feeds. The Markup Validation Service is also available if you wish to validate regular Web pages.
3. Experimental RSS 1.0 Validator :
This prototype is based around a Schematron schema for validating RSS 1.0. The schema is used to generate an XSLT stylesheet which performs the actual validation. In this version of the validator the validator produces a simple HTML report listing the errors, as well as copy of the original RSS 1.0 file.
4. Validome – Feed Validation
Validome is a non-commercial Validation Software, offering ambitionned Webmasters and professional developers a fast and reliable tool in order to check their Feeds. This site offers tools for checking out your HTML, XML, DTD-Schema, RSS and Google Sitemaps.
5. RSS Validator
This Online RSS Validator is Userland Software’s online validator for RSS 0.9x. To try this Feed validation service, enter the URL and it would evaluate validity of feed RSS v9x validator.
6. RSS Validator – Firefox Extension
RSS Validator allows you to easily check the validity of an RSS feed by using the right-click context menu or by making the choice from the tools menu. You are then sent to a separate tab to see the results and any potential errors.
7. Weblogs Validator
Weblogs.com provides this service so that you can verify whether or not your feed satisfies the most common syndication standards (i.e. Atom, RDF, and RSS)
If you find this resource list useful, share and tweet it! Did I miss any other good validators? Please share it in the comments! 😉
Just let me know how to fix that… ????
It depends on the kind of error you are getting mate. Feel free to share with us. 🙂
Feed URL : http://feeds.feedburner.com/CoralsCrimsons
Errors:
This feed does not validate.
line 2, column 219402: Undefined item element: georss:box [help]
… int>19.0759837 72.877655918.835877699999998 7 …
^
In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.
line 2, column 190: Use of unknown namespace: http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008 [help]
… dburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css”?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.o …
^
line 2, column 0: description should not contain trbidi attribute (25 occurrences) [help]
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xs …
line 2, column 0: description should not contain imageanchor attribute (168 occurrences) [help]
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xs …
My rss feed is showing some errors, i dun know how to go about correcting them.Kindly guide.
Khushbu
Can you comment here with the errors Khushbu?
I have seen there are couple of feed validators available in the internet. But why do we need them? Any specific purpose, or just to make our mind more confusing about RSS feeds?
Not actually dude, these come handy when your feeds are not updated or any issues like that.
It's very important post for me, I didn't think about it before. Now, need to check all of my feeds.
Thanks a lot for sharing
Very Excellent find Thank you much bro..
do wordpress or blogger users really need these validators? whats the use?
Some blog’s feeds update poorly.. validating them helps!
for wordpress we won’t require feed validators, however if its a custom CMS and it allows feeds then its time that we test it on the validators and see if there is any error or compatibility problems…
Great tools for ..bloggers 😀 . Thanks for sharing .!
bunch of good tools for bloggers i guess 🙂 🙂 🙂
Till now I used only W3C validator. Will try others now!
w3c is a standard, i use it to test my custom CMS or non-wordpress sites all the time. if its a w3c pass, it will most likely do good on most platforms. however, the more you check the better it is 🙂
Quite some handy tools for bloggers like us
Nice informative article, which leads me to ask the following question – What feed do you need for CommentLuv? Then the CommentLuv link at the bottom of your comment – does that change every time you update with a new post / content, right across the board? Meaning does the link at the bottom of every comment change every time, including your old comments?
Regards
Jacques
CommentLuv detects all the available feeds dood! So you don’t need to worry about that! 🙂
And the link won’t change. It will display the recent article at the time you post the comment and it will last forever!
Thank you for the information, Pradeep. You have been most helpful. It sure is worth adding a feed to your website, especially if you got regular fresh content coming!
Cool sites, the first two i checked. thanks
i think these validators are nice. thanks for the tips. very useful stuff.
As of now i am not using any of this plugins. After seeing this i feel i can go with W3C plugin. Thanks for sharing the list bro 🙂
I don’t know about this services, tested my feed and got some errors (suggestions)! 🙁 Thanks for sharing these services with us.
I used Feed validator and it worked for me.. though I would like to know more about combating feed problem these validators actually indicate.
I use w3c often 🙂
Thanks bro i dnt knw bout this before…i nid to validate my feeds….oh stil gat probz wit my hosting
I use feed validator a lot actually. I had no idea there were so many alternatives!
Thanks for this information. Well I do not think that feed validator is very much important for SEO prospect.
I have used “Feedvalidator.org ” and I think of all the ones listed it has worked the best for me.
Nice post! I have used feed validation and w3c validator…
Nice list. 🙂 I am trying to correct some errors pointed out in my blog. By the way, thanks for the tool.
– Robin
DailyTUT
nice info bro,, specially for bloggers like us,,:))