RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by hawkoy » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 6:01 PM UTC

RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible
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Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by usrme » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 7:02 AM UTC

Maybe someone else will benefit from my experience as well: I recently wanted to create an RSS feed for https://www.apmreports.org/ as they didn't seem to offer one, nor did Feedly (my preferred RSS reader) manage to find one that was up-to-date. I ended up using http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/ instead because there wasn't an existing route in RSSHub that I could use, and it didn't seem trivial to set one up for this particular case; I hope someone will prove me wrong though.

With the Feed Creator feed URL I'm not able to see the content within Feedly (it just says "no content"), but it does relay new posts to me, which I can open directly, and it was amazingly quick to get a functional feed URL, so I'm very happy nonetheless.

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by pembrook » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 8:07 AM UTC

Is there a list of available routes somewhere?

I’m trying to create a personal clone of mailbrew to send myself a newsletter of all my favorite sources.

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by dewey » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 8:18 AM UTC

This is interesting, I was building something similar for my personal use case a while ago but there I have to build a plugin for each website I want to support which is not ideal (https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge). I'll have to check it out, community maintained integrations make a lot more sense.

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by cstuder » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 8:44 AM UTC

dewey wrote: post #4

This is interesting, I was building something similar for my personal use case a while ago but there I have to build a plugin for each website I want to support which is not ideal ( https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge ). I'll have to check it out, community maintained integrations make a lot more sense.

There is RSS-Bridge which is doing exactly that: A plugin per website, common libraries.

A pragmatic approach. Trying to build a generalized framework handling each and every edge case promises endless complexity.

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by xzyaoi » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 8:51 AM UTC

pembrook wrote: post #3

Is there a list of available routes somewhere? I’m trying to create a personal clone of mailbrew to send myself a newsletter of all my favorite sources.

It's here. https://docs.rsshub.app/en/

By the way, I've been using this for a while and it is superb.

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by searchableguy » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 9:21 AM UTC

cstuder wrote: post #5

dewey wrote: post #4

This is interesting, I was building something similar for my personal use case a while ago but there I have to build a plugin for each website I want to support which is not ideal ( https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge ). I'll have to check it out, community maintained integrations make a lot more sense.

There is RSS-Bridge which is doing exactly that: A plugin per website, common libraries. A pragmatic approach. Trying to build a generalized framework handling each and every edge case promises endless complexity. https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

> Dear so-called "social" websites.

> Your catchword is "share", but you don't want us to share. You want to keep us within your walled gardens. That's why you've been removing RSS links from webpages, hiding them deep on your website, or removed feeds entirely, replacing it with crippled or demented proprietary API. FUCK YOU.

> You're not social when you hamper sharing by removing feeds. You're happy to have customers creating content for your ecosystem, but you don't want this content out - a content you do not even own. Google Takeout is just a gimmick. We want our data to flow, we want RSS or Atom feeds.

> We want to share with friends, using open protocols: RSS, Atom, XMPP, whatever. Because no one wants to have your service with your applications using your API force-feeding them. Friends must be free to choose whatever software and service they want.

> We are rebuilding bridges you have wilfully destroyed. Get your shit together: Put RSS/Atom back in.

From that readme. Nice project!

I wish someone would make a social rss reader. It would be pretty neat. Although, activitypub might be better protocol for that.

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by chrismorgan » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 9:37 AM UTC

I’m curious: why is this using RSS? RSS is uniformly technically inferior to Atom, and all feed reader apps that I know of support Atom, and libraries are available for both (some RSS-only, some Atom-only, some general). The only place I’d ever use RSS now is podcast feeds, because podcast feeds haven’t caught up up with 2007 yet.

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by rozab » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 9:40 AM UTC

I have genuinely found that open source projects by people with anime girls as their profile pic tend to be excellent

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by hawkoy » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 9:53 AM UTC

chrismorgan wrote: post #8

I’m curious: why is this using RSS? RSS is uniformly technically inferior to Atom, and all feed reader apps that I know of support Atom, and libraries are available for both (some RSS-only, some Atom-only, some general). The only place I’d ever use RSS now is podcast feeds, because podcast feeds haven’t caught up up with 2007 yet.

https://docs.rsshub.app/en/parameter.html#output-formats

It does support atom. You need .atom at the end. By default, it's rss V2.