Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors

This is a great tool! Before I learned about nitter, this was my primary way to follow people on Twitter. I love the idea of trying to wrestle unsupported feeds (Twitter, Instagram, etc.) into a standard/open format.

Re: Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors

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Post by kalupa » Fri, Jul 14, 2023, 9:16 PM UTC

skribanto wrote: post #2

Getting 502 Bad Gateway

yea, suffering from success ...

Re: Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors

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Post by midasz » Fri, Jul 14, 2023, 9:18 PM UTC

Does it work for websites that fetch content async? I've had success with https://morss.it instead (which can also be selfhosted)

Re: Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors

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Post by crtasm » Fri, Jul 14, 2023, 9:34 PM UTC

solardev wrote: post #3

It ded. Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20230714202418/https://rss-bridg... Sample feed: https://web.archive.org/web/20230308160413/https://rss-bridg...

List of public instances: https://rss-bridge.github.io/rss-bridge/General/Public_Hosts...

edit: but the few I tried did not have the CSS Selector Bridge enabled so go with the original link or archive of it.

Re: Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors

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Post by PaulHoule » Fri, Jul 14, 2023, 9:46 PM UTC

I've wondered why people have tried all sorts of cumbersome ways to splice metadata onto HTML like RDFa but never tried the obvious approach of basing extraction rules on CSS selectors... Often these work without the cooperation of the target site so long as they use CSS the way it was supposed be used (e.g. not tailwind, bootstrap, etc.)

Re: Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors

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Post by simonjgreen » Fri, Jul 14, 2023, 9:49 PM UTC

This is very similar to how you can scrape data from web with powerquery

Re: Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors

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Post by kybernetikos » Fri, Jul 14, 2023, 9:54 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #8

I've wondered why people have tried all sorts of cumbersome ways to splice metadata onto HTML like RDFa but never tried the obvious approach of basing extraction rules on CSS selectors... Often these work without the cooperation of the target site so long as they use CSS the way it was supposed be used (e.g. not tailwind, bootstrap, etc.)

I quite like the microformats approach to this. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/microforma...