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Re: Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog

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Post by rainworld »

latexr wrote: post #7

> RSS and ATOM feeds are problematic for two reasons; 1) lack of history, 2) contain limited post content. None of those are problems with RSS or Atom¹ feeds. There’s no technical limitation to having the full history and full post content in the feeds. Many feeds behave that way due to a choice by the author or as the default behaviour of the blogging platform. Both have reasons to be: saving bandwidth² and driving…

Also, there’s an existing, moderately well supported format for JSON feeds: https://www.jsonfeed.org

Re: Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog

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Post by tandav »

latexr wrote: post #7

> RSS and ATOM feeds are problematic for two reasons; 1) lack of history, 2) contain limited post content. None of those are problems with RSS or Atom¹ feeds. There’s no technical limitation to having the full history and full post content in the feeds. Many feeds behave that way due to a choice by the author or as the default behaviour of the blogging platform. Both have reasons to be: saving bandwidth² and driving…

Also Atom feeds supports pagination https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5005#section-3

Re: Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog

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Post by [deleted] »

latexr wrote: post #7

> RSS and ATOM feeds are problematic for two reasons; 1) lack of history, 2) contain limited post content. None of those are problems with RSS or Atom¹ feeds. There’s no technical limitation to having the full history and full post content in the feeds. Many feeds behave that way due to a choice by the author or as the default behaviour of the blogging platform. Both have reasons to be: saving bandwidth² and driving…

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Re: Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog

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Post by breck »

The future of RSS is "git clone".

RSS was invented in 1999, 6 years before git!

Now we have git and should just be "git cloning" blogs you like, rather than subscribing to RSS feeds.

I still have RSS feeds on all my blogs for back-compat, but git clone is way better.

Re: Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog

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Post by xiande04 »

breck wrote: post #14

The future of RSS is "git clone". RSS was invented in 1999, 6 years before git! Now we have git and should just be "git cloning" blogs you like, rather than subscribing to RSS feeds. I still have RSS feeds on all my blogs for back-compat, but git clone is way better.

And if the blog's repo is private or, gasp, it's not versioned with git?

Re: Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog

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Post by msephton »

latexr wrote: post #7

> RSS and ATOM feeds are problematic for two reasons; 1) lack of history, 2) contain limited post content. None of those are problems with RSS or Atom¹ feeds. There’s no technical limitation to having the full history and full post content in the feeds. Many feeds behave that way due to a choice by the author or as the default behaviour of the blogging platform. Both have reasons to be: saving bandwidth² and driving…

I have the full history in my blog feed.

Re: Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog

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Post by jayemar »

steamodon wrote: post #8

I wrote a similar tool [1], although it's designed to let you gradually catch up on a backlog rather than write a full feed all at once. Right now it only works on Blogger and WordPress blogs, so I'll need to learn from their trick of pulling from Internet Archive. [1] https://github.com/steadmon/blog-replay

I had a similar idea to replay blogs. It'll pull from WordPress or Internet Archive and give you a replay link to add to your feed reader.

https://refeed.to

Re: Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog

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Post by [deleted] »

steamodon wrote: post #8

I wrote a similar tool [1], although it's designed to let you gradually catch up on a backlog rather than write a full feed all at once. Right now it only works on Blogger and WordPress blogs, so I'll need to learn from their trick of pulling from Internet Archive. [1] https://github.com/steadmon/blog-replay

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Re: Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog

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Post by msephton »

This reminds me of something I wrote in early 2000. At that time RSS was less than a year old and if I'm honest I wasn't aware of it at all. I wrote a short PHP script to get the HTML of each site in a list, do a diff against the most recent snapshot, and generate a web page with a table containing all the changes. I could set per site thresholds for change value to cope with small dynamic content like dates and exclude certain latger sections of content via regexp. I probably still have the code in my backups from the dot com boom job I had at the time.

Re: Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog

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Post by 8organicbits »

breck wrote: post #14

The future of RSS is "git clone". RSS was invented in 1999, 6 years before git! Now we have git and should just be "git cloning" blogs you like, rather than subscribing to RSS feeds. I still have RSS feeds on all my blogs for back-compat, but git clone is way better.

What problems does that solve? Reading blogs over git clone sounds like re-inventing the wheel. Are there even any tools that do that?

If anything were to replace RSS (and Atom) I'd personally hope for h-feed [1] since it's DRYer. But realistically it's going to be hard to eclipse RSS, there's far too much adoption and it is mostly sufficient.

[1] https://indieweb.org/h-feed

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