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Had you replied in a respectful manner, you would have gotten a reply from me with what I think are legitimate reasons for having this script in a docker image.
The required degree of respect was exhausted by the question of what the advantages were. This rampant epidemic of wanting to dump everything into some kind of "container" and "image" was quite funny for a while, but is now just annoying.
Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything
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Re: Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything
#42If you want to create new RSS feeds from almost anything, my rssparser.lisp is still there: https://code.rosaelefanten.org/rssparser.lisp
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#43Shameless plug on something similar: https://feedreader.xyz Comes as a bookmarklet and it will not only find a page's feed, it will also display it nicely directly. Demo on Verge's feed: https://feedreader.xyz/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2... (you just visit the site, hit the bookmarklet & there you go) This was primarily built after realizing that the official Google RSS plugin for Chrome was never gonna be…
Re: Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything
#44I'm old enough to remember when browsers would highlight in the url bar that a site had an RSS feed. Well, I'm old enough to remember upgrading from Mosaic to Netscape, so I'm v old. Cool little project.
Re: Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything
#45I recently installed self-hosted FreshRSS, an rss reader which can _create_ rss feeds from sites that don't provide them using techniques like xpath selectors. https://www.freshrss.org
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
The required degree of respect was exhausted by the question of what the advantages were. This rampant epidemic of wanting to dump everything into some kind of "container" and "image" was quite funny for a while, but is now just annoying.
It took more energy to respond in such an abrasive way, than it would've to just ignore the comment if you found it so silly. Go take your social ineptitude elsewhere
I hereby humbly apologise for daring to participate in the comments section of Hacker News despite my autism. Will not happen again.
(But then where are "people like me" supposed to go?).
Re: Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything
#47Re: Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything
#48* Shameless plug * Our feed generator can detect existing RSS feeds, and combines a scraper and data transformer to help create custom RSS feeds for any public webpage.
Re: Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything
#49This is a good application. However, I think that among similar products, https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub is a more usable choice(able to generate RSS). In addition, using rsshub with the https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub-Radar browser extension would be more convenient.