RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS

# in a bash script called by cron every handful of hours there are many, many lines like this:

    perl twitter_user_to_rss.pl gnuradio > ~/limbo/www/rss/gnuradio.xml

    perl twitter_search_to_rss_wtf.pl "rtlsdr" > ~/limbo/www/rss/rtlsdr.xml

I know it'd have to be subjective per user (security ACLs ⇒ different accounts seeing differing subsets of other accounts' posts); but I'd be fine with just getting my own account's subjective view, by logging into such a service using Facebook OAuth (or, if that isn't enough, then I'd be fine with handing over my Facebook creds themselves, ala XAuth, provided the service is a FOSS one I'm running a copy of myself in e.g. an ownCloud instance.)

I also know that it'd likely require heavyweight scraping using e.g. Puppeteer, to fool Facebook into thinking it's real traffic. But that's not really that much of an impediment, as long as you don't need to scale it to more than a dozen-or-so scrapes per second. (Which you'd automatically be safe from if it was a host-it-yourself solution, since there'd only be one concurrent user of your instance.)

Anyone done this?

You probably just want to run code on each new item in the feed.

Pipedream lets you treat an RSS feed as an event source. Pipedream runs the code to poll the feed, emitting new items as the feed produces them.

RSS for Hackers - https://rss.pipedream.com