I work on a somewhat similar project called Feed Creator which can be used for less popular pages where you can select elements for the feed using CSS selectors: https://createfeed.fivefilters.org
RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS
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#22How would you guys use it? What're the use cases for this website?
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#23Re: RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS
#24> FYI: If you enable JavaScript then you be able to access additional options in the dropdown menus. The website should still be somewhat usable, but recent versions of Firefox will try to download the RSS feeds. This is how you communicate with people with JavaScript disabled! Kudos. Most sites either present you with a blank page with no information, a blank page asking to enable JavaScript (even when the content i…
I run a similar service where I rate limit. I've whitelisted the IPs of the centralised feed readers like Feedly (at least the ones I've been able to identify), but the reate limit for non-whitelisted IPs is generous enough that it's really there to only catch the really problematic scripts which crop up from time to time.
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#25Use case are old blog archive one wants to (re-) read sequentially from the start but not in binge mode. So maybe one post per day or week. I'm thinking about the old posts of Aaron Swartz or Steve Yegge.
Just adding the feed to a feed reader is often not sufficient because the feed only contains the last 20 entries or so.
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#26In the same vein : RSS-Bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge (you can find multiple instances on the web)
Nice one. As much as I approve of services I'd rather self-host. Tired of people pulling the rug out under my feet
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#27Does anyone remember Yahoo Pipes? That was awesome, I mostly used it (around 2008-2010) to make RSS for sites where it wasn't available https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes
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#28The service https://feed43.com will enable you you to build a RSS feed out of pretty much anything with a URL. I use it to build RSS out of sha256 release files, vendor client download release pages, changelogs, etc.
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#30I wrote a similar tool (but not as polished) that requires you to write custom plugins. This works well if you have websites that are hard to scrape in an automated way. Maybe it's useful to someone else: https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge