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Show HN: Tgfeed – convert public Telegram channels into RSS or Atom feeds

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Post by nDmitry » Thu, May 01, 2025, 4:03 PM UTC

I’m using it to read Telegram channels without ads and in the same place as everything else (Miniflux), hosting it on my home server. Maybe you’ll find it useful too.

As a bonus, here’s a Solarized Light theme for Miniflux RSS reader I vibed with AI : https://gist.github.com/nDmitry/2c3ff859d50d7b15e2369a51e781...

Show HN: Tgfeed – convert public Telegram channels into RSS or Atom feeds
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Re: Show HN: Tgfeed – convert public Telegram channels into RSS or Atom feeds

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Post by badmonster » Fri, May 02, 2025, 4:00 AM UTC

what's the best way to scale scraping-heavy services like this without getting blocked?

Re: Show HN: Tgfeed – convert public Telegram channels into RSS or Atom feeds

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Post by nDmitry » Fri, May 02, 2025, 8:50 AM UTC

badmonster wrote: post #2

what's the best way to scale scraping-heavy services like this without getting blocked?

It depends on how their owners protect them. Switching IPs via proxies and changing user agents are well-known and relatively simple methods—essentially pretending to be different clients. However, nowadays, services like Cloudflare often render these techniques obsolete, forcing you to mimic human behavior instead. I don’t have expertise in that area.

Re: Show HN: Tgfeed – convert public Telegram channels into RSS or Atom feeds

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Post by vladkens » Fri, May 02, 2025, 2:32 PM UTC

badmonster wrote: post #2

what's the best way to scale scraping-heavy services like this without getting blocked?

You can read any public Telegram feed in your web browser at the URL: t.me/s/CHANNEL_NAME. So far it doesn't look like a problem with scrappe telegram feeds now. Unlike Reddit / X.