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How To Get An RSS Feed Of Your Recent iTunes Purchases

May 27th, 2008

On yesterday’s Elite Tech News Podcast, Louis Gray mentioned importing his recent iTunes purchases into FriendFeed. I spent a little time poking around in iTunes to get this to happen for my iTunes purchases.

Basically, you can allow Apple to send out an RSS feed of your recent iTunes purchases. You can then use that RSS feed wherever you like, say in your favorite feed reader, the sidebar of your blog, or share it in FriendFeed.

Visit the website “My iTunes“. Click Sign in now.

The iTunes application on your computer should open. Click Manage My iTunes.

Or: get to the above screen by launching iTunes, selecting the iTunes Store, and clicking “Account” under Quick Links.

Check the box next to My iTunes Purchases and click Get HTML Code.

Click Copy feed URL under iTunes Feed. The RSS feed URL will copy to your clipboard.

You can paste the RSS feed into your feed reader or elsewhere, but I’ll go a little further and import it into FriendFeed.

Log into FriendFeed. Click Account in the upper right corner, then edit/add (next to services).

Click “Blog” since you’re importing an RSS feed. Paste the URL you copied to the clipboard into the appropriate field.

All your recent iTunes purchases should now display in your FriendFeed feed.

Note: You can also enable an RSS feed for your iTunes Favorites (music artists you’ve purchased the most from the iTunes Store) or your iTunes Reviews. Just go back to that Manage My iTunes screen to enable those options and get the appropriate URL.

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  • Good summary. You beat me to it!
  • Well - for what it's worth I double checked to see if you had already
    written one :)
  • Nathan Lanier
    Very Nice
  • CyndyA
    Am I the only person in the world who may be ashamed of a few iTunes purchases? Not to mention that I'm not entirely sure I'd want the kids' stuff showing up. There's only so much Hannah Montana the world should be exposed to.
  • Haha, well... in my case we have episodes of grey's anatomy, simon and
    garfunkel, and movies like beauty shop that are all due to my wife, with her
    slightly different taste.
  • CyndyA
    You share an account with your wife? I think my husband would throw up. We have authorized each other to play the few things we both like, but other than that, his account is his account. Although the kids buy through mine, which skew me toward The Cheetah Girls and Aly & AJ.
  • Mike
    Nice! I know I'm nitpicking, but it still treats it like a blog. Would be awesome if FriendFeed allowed you to name the "blog" and maybe even upload your own service icon (or use the feed's favicon).

    In fact, I'm going to post the suggestion to their feedback forum - here's hoping they implement it. :)
  • Mike
    In case you'd like to follow along, I posted my suggestion here.
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