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RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by disiplus »

captn3m0 wrote: post #5

I was so happy at seeing telegram, but it requires admin rights to the channel. There is so much content (a lot of it non-english) hidden away in telegram channels that I want to be part of the open web. If someone wants to take it up, it is definitely doable with a telegram user account, but the APIs are not readily usable: https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas#telegram-to-rss Also, if someone is looking to follow lots…

telegram has this shitty feature where if anybody knows your public username they can add you to any group they want.

this is the source of the shitty spam on telegram right now. i was active in the crypto space and my username leaked. im now added to ton of spam and pump groups daily and i cannot block it.

also you dont need admin rights to the channel, but you have to work with https://core.telegram.org/mtproto to scrape channels. i did some side project with this https://github.com/zerobias/telegram-mtproto

Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by cyborgx7 »

How come noone has managed to crack the RSS rock yet? Everything has an RSS feed (though it's decreasing). Rss readers have more content than any social network. It seems like you should be able to build something with this that has broad adoption. There has to be something missing.

My theory has been for a while that what is missing is publishing. People don't just want to consume, they also want to share what they find and like and what they made themselves. I even started working on a web-based rss-reader/(micro)blogging thing at one point. Maybe I should give that another crack.

Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by wccrawford »

zaarn wrote: post #6
aiNohY6g wrote: post #2

See also https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/

Interestingly, they have bridges for some websites that do have RSS feeds (Steam, Youtube and HN)... Maybe because the feeds are hard to find?

Or perhaps those feeds are deficient in some way. Maybe they update later than the actual site, or have ads inserted as if they are articles.

Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by zaarn »

wccrawford wrote: post #13
zaarn wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly, they have bridges for some websites that do have RSS feeds (Steam, Youtube and HN)... Maybe because the feeds are hard to find?

Or perhaps those feeds are deficient in some way. Maybe they update later than the actual site, or have ads inserted as if they are articles.

Neither of those three do that to my knowledge.

Well, given Steam is basically 90% just announcements for deals and HN is an endless spam of articles that were on the frontpage for a millisecond, but I think that would be given.

Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by older »

cyborgx7 wrote: post #12

How come noone has managed to crack the RSS rock yet? Everything has an RSS feed (though it's decreasing). Rss readers have more content than any social network. It seems like you should be able to build something with this that has broad adoption. There has to be something missing. My theory has been for a while that what is missing is publishing. People don't just want to consume, they also want to share what they…

Isn't ActivityPub supposed to fill the gap?

Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by gsich »

disiplus wrote: post #11
captn3m0 wrote: post #5

I was so happy at seeing telegram, but it requires admin rights to the channel. There is so much content (a lot of it non-english) hidden away in telegram channels that I want to be part of the open web. If someone wants to take it up, it is definitely doable with a telegram user account, but the APIs are not readily usable: https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas#telegram-to-rss Also, if someone is looking to follow lots…

telegram has this shitty feature where if anybody knows your public username they can add you to any group they want. this is the source of the shitty spam on telegram right now. i was active in the crypto space and my username leaked. im now added to ton of spam and pump groups daily and i cannot block it. also you dont need admin rights to the channel, but you have to work with https://core.telegram.org/mtproto to…

How is this different to other messages where your phone number is the username? Last I checked this was possible with Whatsapp too.

Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

#17

Post by Aelius »

zaarn wrote: post #6
aiNohY6g wrote: post #2

See also https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/

Interestingly, they have bridges for some websites that do have RSS feeds (Steam, Youtube and HN)... Maybe because the feeds are hard to find?

I use YouTube RSS and the most annoying thing is that it doesn't use the conventional date stamp, which is very annoying. That's a problem worth fixing.

Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by grumph »

cyborgx7 wrote: post #12

How come noone has managed to crack the RSS rock yet? Everything has an RSS feed (though it's decreasing). Rss readers have more content than any social network. It seems like you should be able to build something with this that has broad adoption. There has to be something missing. My theory has been for a while that what is missing is publishing. People don't just want to consume, they also want to share what they…

If you don't know it, take a look at Shaarli[1], it's a bookmarking web app that allows you to share your bookmarks via RSS, you can add tags and comments, but you can also have "notes" without a link that can be used as microblogging posts.

It's a project from Sebsauvage[2] (an old school french blogger), who wanted to build a social network around the RSS technology.

I know there are projects around it to aggregate multiple shaarli and use it as an actual social network based around sharing links with RSS. I didn't search about it, but it seems that shaarlo[3] is one of them. EDIT: actually, projects like this are listed in shaarli's documentation[4].

EDIT2: tt-rss-shaarli seems to be what you want, Tiny-Tiny RSS with Shaarli, an aggregator with a sharing/commenting functionality.

[1] https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli

[2] http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:shaarli

[3] https://github.com/DMeloni/shaarlo

[4] https://shaarli.readthedocs.io/en/master/Community-&-Related...

Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by vsund »

cyborgx7 wrote: post #12

How come noone has managed to crack the RSS rock yet? Everything has an RSS feed (though it's decreasing). Rss readers have more content than any social network. It seems like you should be able to build something with this that has broad adoption. There has to be something missing. My theory has been for a while that what is missing is publishing. People don't just want to consume, they also want to share what they…

This is exactly what I don't understand about all the feed readers out there. It seems so obvious that the next step for feed readers would be social interactions like sharing, also it would be to easy to add I guess.

Additionally the aspect of consuming YouTube via RSS feed. Feed readers could simply add small logic which transforms a given YouTube account into one of

  https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=
  https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=
And so on for similar services. RSS has such great potential but somehow nobody uses all of it.

Is there anything I miss? Why don't feed readers support external services (like the YouTube example from above)? Why don't feed readers add social features?

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