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Re: Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything

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It uses several techniques one of which is also meta tags.

Strange. I tried it with my blog and it said there was no feed https://kevincox.ca . I definitely have a alternate link tag set up.

What it's worth my own RSS reader also fails to find any feeds from your site because my parser expects the link type to be quoted with either single or double quotes. Not sure what the offical specs say though.

  type="application/atom+xml"

Re: Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything

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Is there a docker image for this?

What exactly would be the point of shoving a script that is nothing more than a simple cronjob and that could theoretically just be compiled as a static binary into a Docker container?

Actually, since I am unfamiliar with the requirements to run a lisp script I thought a docker image would provide all necessary dependencies (SBCL? Quicklisp?) without the necessity to investigating myself and installing them directly on my machine.

Secondly, after this would be obviously installed for checking and testing functionality for meeting my personal the requirements, it is much more easy to uninstall all dependencies by stopping and removing a container then manually removing all packages in case of not needing it.

Thirdly, a service like that would be installed on my home server, which separates the OS installation and other extra services by having all extra services inside docker containers keeping the OS "clean".

Re: Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything

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Maybe I misunderstood, this tries to find RSS feeds from sites, not generate RSS feeds for sites that don't have them, right? I've been using RSSPreview addon on Firefox for a couple years to perform this, but I really see the value of a Web service to do this anywhere. Kudos!

Feed43 used to be that.[0]

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230326224112/https://feed43.co...

Re: Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything

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Strange. I tried it with my blog and it said there was no feed https://kevincox.ca . I definitely have a alternate link tag set up.

What it's worth my own RSS reader also fails to find any feeds from your site because my parser expects the link type to be quoted with either single or double quotes. Not sure what the offical specs say though. type="application/atom+xml"

This is a valid unquoted attribute. So it looks like a bug in your reader (and quite possibly the linked service as well)

https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html-markup-20120329/syntax.ht...

Re: Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything

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Maybe a bit tangential, but are there any “RSS to email” tools? Meaning — whenever I update my blog, the rss tool detects it and auto-sends an email version of it (maybe a teaser snippet) to a certain mailing list (e.g from Substack)

https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email
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