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Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by strajk »

688e7ad06d59e95 wrote: post #44
genmon wrote: post #22

I'm pleased to see renewed interest in RSS (web feeds generally). But my concern is that, for first time users, the onboarding process is too complex. There are too many unexplained steps, and the benefits are unclear. A plug for my own answer to this: I recently launched https://aboutfeeds.com -- a one pager "getting started" guide aimed at first-time users of web feeds/RSS. The goal is to have it linked next to eve…

>There are too many unexplained steps, and the benefits are unclear. You are 100% correct with this. But not only that is the problem. There are too many sites that don't offer obvious RSS feeds. Like YouTube. I don't have a google account, but I still want to follow some channels. What would be the best way? Right RSS, but YouTube doesn't offer that really obviously. So here is how you follow a youtube channel with…

My favourite rss reader NewsBlur (no affil, just very happy user) allows subscribing to YouTube channels just by entering its URL - no need to digging for RSS feed :)

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by m-localhost »

genmon wrote: post #22

I'm pleased to see renewed interest in RSS (web feeds generally). But my concern is that, for first time users, the onboarding process is too complex. There are too many unexplained steps, and the benefits are unclear. A plug for my own answer to this: I recently launched https://aboutfeeds.com -- a one pager "getting started" guide aimed at first-time users of web feeds/RSS. The goal is to have it linked next to eve…

Great work. This should be extended to podcasts and images would be nice as well. At the end, maybe there is no way anymore to get non-technical people interested into these technologies if they can get their news from a preinstalled "news-app" and "podcasts" from spotify.

I myself just wrote a little script to turn youtube channels, playlists and searches into video feeds that I can subscribe to in my podcast player. I love rss.

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by IceWreck »

rmetzler wrote: post #41

Someone at my company wanted to use RSShub for turning Instagram into an RSS feed. This kept breaking, because rsshub just scrapes Instagram profiles on the web and Instagram pushes its users to the app. It’s probably more Instagrams fault than rsshub’s that it was breaking. Just be aware of these limitations.

RSSBridge does something similar, and when instagram breaks, its usually in two -three days

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by genmon »

m-localhost wrote: post #52
genmon wrote: post #22

I'm pleased to see renewed interest in RSS (web feeds generally). But my concern is that, for first time users, the onboarding process is too complex. There are too many unexplained steps, and the benefits are unclear. A plug for my own answer to this: I recently launched https://aboutfeeds.com -- a one pager "getting started" guide aimed at first-time users of web feeds/RSS. The goal is to have it linked next to eve…

Great work. This should be extended to podcasts and images would be nice as well. At the end, maybe there is no way anymore to get non-technical people interested into these technologies if they can get their news from a preinstalled "news-app" and "podcasts" from spotify. I myself just wrote a little script to turn youtube channels, playlists and searches into video feeds that I can subscribe to in my podcast player…

Illustrations would definitely help, you’re right. It’s in our issues list, and I have some ideas about simple ways to address that. Issues list is on Github incidentally https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds

Podcast: I’m not close enough to this world to know. Has podcasting answered the discovery question by centralising directories, or are podcasts still discovered “in the wild”?

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by [deleted] »

gilrain wrote: post #18
rozab wrote: post #9

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

Those may be correlated with a lack of family and, thus, more free time for personal projects. Not that one outgrows an appreciation of anime once married, but that the tendency toward cute girl avatars probably decreases.

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Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by zmix »

genmon wrote: post #22

I'm pleased to see renewed interest in RSS (web feeds generally). But my concern is that, for first time users, the onboarding process is too complex. There are too many unexplained steps, and the benefits are unclear. A plug for my own answer to this: I recently launched https://aboutfeeds.com -- a one pager "getting started" guide aimed at first-time users of web feeds/RSS. The goal is to have it linked next to eve…

Would you mind letting people know about the ATOM format as well? The sentence

    1. What is a feed? (a.k.a. RSS)
is wrong. It is not "a.k.a. RSS". It must be "What is Really Simple Syndication (a.k.a. RSS)?"

ATOM, in many, but not all cases, is superior, since it allows for easy extensibility. Should people be made aware of Feed technology, I would love them not learn to associate it with RSS, but understand, that there is also ATOM, which even has derivates, namely OPL and ODPS. There also exists a PubSub type API for ATOM.

Thank you.

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by zmix »

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.

You can get everything as ATOM, as well. From the docs:

    RSSHub conforms to RSS 2.0 and Atom Standard, simply append 
    .rss .atom to the end of the feed address to obtain the feed 
    in corresponding format, default to RSS 2.0.

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by zmix »

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.

> Is there a list of available routes somewhere?

This[1] gives you a JSON of all the routes.

[1]: https://rsshub.app/api/routes

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by Seirdy »

thedz wrote: post #43

I've started using IFTTT to sent RSS feed updates over to my email, and I think I've finally found my preferred way of consuming feeds. My email client is actually much more powerful than most readers in letting me capture read status and labels / sorting.

You might be interested in feed2maildir [1], which saves feeds in maildir format so you can use all your favorite mail clients and index with notmuch. That way, you aren't dependent on another centralized privacy-invasive proprietary SaaS walled garden being online and running without major changes.

I've been planning on transitioning from my current TUI RSS reader (Newsboat) to a maildir-based CLI with notmuch filters for a while; I might give it a shot next weekend and post some of my notmuch filters for RSS.

[1]: https://github.com/sulami/feed2maildir

Re: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

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Post by mro_name »

zmix wrote: post #56
genmon wrote: post #22

I'm pleased to see renewed interest in RSS (web feeds generally). But my concern is that, for first time users, the onboarding process is too complex. There are too many unexplained steps, and the benefits are unclear. A plug for my own answer to this: I recently launched https://aboutfeeds.com -- a one pager "getting started" guide aimed at first-time users of web feeds/RSS. The goal is to have it linked next to eve…

Would you mind letting people know about the ATOM format as well? The sentence 1. What is a feed? (a.k.a. RSS) is wrong. It is not "a.k.a. RSS". It must be "What is Really Simple Syndication (a.k.a. RSS)?" ATOM, in many, but not all cases, is superior, since it allows for easy extensibility. Should people be made aware of Feed technology, I would love them not learn to associate it with RSS, but understand, that ther…

and Atom actually is well defined (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287 etc.), while RSS is just a mess. There's many of them and no RFC or similar.
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