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Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by tomjen3 »

justnotworthit wrote: post #119

Im a podcast/youtube addict, yet I havent found a good use of youtube's RSS feed. I'd love for channels and playlists to be as simple as podcast feeds, but YT doesn't want to be a file server. 1) They block you from watching outside of youtube, so you still need the site to watch 1a) Or do a unix'y combination with youtube-dl; file management; etc 1b) Or use a service or tool that comes, gets broken, goes; (podsync,…

VLC can play youtube videos if you copy and paste the link. It is a downloadable program and it has been around for 20 years, so chances are it isn't going anywhere.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by tectonic »

jaidan wrote: post #274
prepend wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve never had as peaceful a work life as back when I used yahoo pipes to organize all the RSS feeds from GitHub and Jira and others into a unified view of what’s happening in all my projects. It broke due to a fluke because a network engineer decided to try to implement a software based firewall that blocked rss files. This was such a weird error but the engineer didn’t know what rss or curl was if that tells you so…

I never experienced Yahoo Pipes however, I looked at some videos on YouTube and it appears to be similar to Node-Red. It may not be as intuitive but it looks like it may provide a similar experience. https://nodered.org/ Possible example: https://dannysu.com/2016/12/29/huginn-to-node-red/ There are also a few RSS discussions in the Node-Red forum: https://discourse.nodered.org/

I use Huginn to consume and email me RSS feeds too.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by mjgs »

onli wrote: post #319
mjgs wrote: post #244

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Thanks for sharing this, awesome project. The feature set looks pretty comprehensive from the screenshots. Is there a way to export the created canvas from the editor? I’m imagining a workflow where people/teams create the RSS processing canvases and then share them using an export. Also is there a CLI tool?

Hey, thanks :) The project's web application is currently not separated enough into backend/frontend to forge a CLI tool from that backend. There is an export function, but it's meant as a data export for all the pipes (to not hold data hostage), not per canvas, and to my knowledge no one so far has tried to work with the JSON representation the site exports. However, you can fork pipes in the site UI and then edit t…

Thanks for the details.

The sort of thing I was thinking about was something similar to how post production workflows are setup in film vfx.

You have teams of artists working on 2d and 3d software packages locally. They then save their project, which produces a file that can be rendered on the render farm.

In this rss news equivalent, teams could mash together RSS feeds. Then send their local project export to a backend infrastructure, that would do something with the export, maybe generate a static site, or something more complex .

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by superkuh »

mkl wrote: post #280
superkuh wrote: post #27

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I second that. If you have a lot of feeds, thousands, then QuiteRSS is one of the readers that will work reliably. It can be ram heavy with 1k+ feeds but it does the job. In the article the author mentions one way to get RSS feeds from a youtube channel. This is how to get it from a youtube username, https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=USER_ID

Do you know if it's possible to make QuiteRSS automatically download and cache the pages of new posts it finds? It seems to wait until I click on a post before starting to load it (quite slowly).

That's an option you can set. Go to options, F8, then "Feeds" and "Automatically update feeds on startup".

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by onli »

mjgs wrote: post #335
onli wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, thanks :) The project's web application is currently not separated enough into backend/frontend to forge a CLI tool from that backend. There is an export function, but it's meant as a data export for all the pipes (to not hold data hostage), not per canvas, and to my knowledge no one so far has tried to work with the JSON representation the site exports. However, you can fork pipes in the site UI and then edit t…

Thanks for the details. The sort of thing I was thinking about was something similar to how post production workflows are setup in film vfx. You have teams of artists working on 2d and 3d software packages locally. They then save their project, which produces a file that can be rendered on the render farm. In this rss news equivalent, teams could mash together RSS feeds. Then send their local project export to a back…

I mean, RSS fits well to prepare data to go somewhere. Just the offline part you probably do not need. Create your pipe, share the account, or let the other developer fork the pipe. The tool that in the end consumes the feed can just work with the online feed directly from Pipes - those tools expect an url anyway.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by approxim8ion »

brundolf wrote: post #242

Does anybody have a recommendation on a tutorial for implementing RSS from scratch, for a personal website? I've been meaning to on mine but haven't found a good resource Edit: Found one https://alexanderle.com/create-an-rss-feed-from-scratch

I did this today for my site using the RSS 2.0 specification[1] and a sample feed[2]

1: https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html#:~:text=RSS%20i....

2: http://static.userland.com/gems/backend/rssTwoExample2.xml

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by arendtio »

A few month ago, I found out that Thunderbird can show RSS Feeds within your grouped Inbox. So I just have to keep track of my e-mails and when one of my few selected RSS feeds posts something useful, I noticed it automatically.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by ksec »

prepend wrote: post #143
jamesponddotco wrote: post #105

I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Because of its existence I do not need to touch Twitter, Reddit, YouTube[1], or any Mastodon instance, for example, as I can just have the updates that interest me from these networks in the comfort of my Feedbin[2] feed. While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for…

I’ve never had as peaceful a work life as back when I used yahoo pipes to organize all the RSS feeds from GitHub and Jira and others into a unified view of what’s happening in all my projects. It broke due to a fluke because a network engineer decided to try to implement a software based firewall that blocked rss files. This was such a weird error but the engineer didn’t know what rss or curl was if that tells you so…

Off Topic:

>yahoo pipes

So many "Low Code" or "No Code" project but nothing even comes close to Yahoo Pipes.

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