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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 »

lozf wrote: post #30
disiplus wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

In Telegram: "Settings, Security, Groups" has options to allow everyone or just your contacts to add you to groups. Contacts alone is usually adequate, but you can add exceptions.

thank you. why would "everyone" be the default setting, i cannot imagine.

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Post by Fnoord »

vsund wrote: post #20
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…

Because RSS gives readers too much signal, and not enough noise (ads, profiling), and doesn't keep users within the walled garden ecosystems. That's why apps are popular, too. It is all about control. Another disadvantage is that RSS doesn't have native incremental updates, which increases data volume. Though that isn't very relevant in 2018.

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

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Post by rhabarba »

h43z wrote: post #19

This python script https://github.com/h43z/rssify serves me well to get and RSS feed for websites that don't provide one.

It has a lot of dependencies though. (You might also like mine which can be compiled into a portable binary with one extra line of code. ;-))

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

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Post by gsich »

disiplus wrote: post #24
gsich wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

your phone number is not your username on telegram. the username on telegram is like a handle on twitter, with the difference that on telegram you dont have to have a username. you can message anybody in your contacts without username. but if you chose to have a username on telegram that username is public, and searchable. and the worst part is that anybody can add your username to any channel. so tltr: username on t…

>your phone number is not your username on telegram

yes I know, haven't written that.

>and the worst part is that anybody can add your username to any channel

my point was that other messengers have public usernames too, mostly their phone number and suffer from that same problem.

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

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Post by captn3m0 »

solarkraft wrote: post #9
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…

I believe that it might be against Telegram's ToS to scrape channels (Update: It doesn't seem to be). That said: I too really like the idea. I had been thinking about writing a tool to scrape Telegram channels for another project, but found tg-cli with its Lua, Python bindings and weird command line interface to be quite messy (so I gave up for then). Since this seems to be in decent demand, surely somebody has alrea…

I tried tg-cli and a few mtproto compatible libraries, but it was all a huge pain to get working properly before I gave up: https://github.com/captn3m0/opengram

The good APIs are the bot ones which won't work here.

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

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Post by captn3m0 »

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…

yes, mtproto is such a horrible experience that almost every library is now abandoned.

The closest was this Show HN about a Channel-> Blog generator that worked on top of telegram: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617675

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

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Post by lordgrenville »

vsund wrote: post #20
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…

As an RSS lover, I have zero interest in social features. If I occasionally want to share something, I can email/WhatsApp/Slack the URL; but for the most part I don't, and I'm able to read without the distraction and noise.
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