i wish RSS protocols would update to support SSE for pushing new items instead of you polling them. Does anyone know a reliable way to use aiohttp with proxies to load data from RSS so that your requests are not blocked when using the feedparser library in python?
RSS is awesome
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#82I'm sad that a basic description of what RSS consists of makes it onto HN. I still upvoted to help educate the kids :/ FYI FreshRSS is fairly trivial to self-host, and is a really nice option for an RSS reader app.
Preferential to Miniflux myself, but any RSS reader is better than none.
Same here, tried both and sticked with Miniflux that seems on the lighter side. I don't really need the web interface or an app, because I channel everything towards a Telegram bot, where I read the feeds: a glance at the title, "Instant View" or long read if needed.
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#83Boy do I feel old if a short, low content PSA about the existence of RSS is considered "hacker news."
Ask a junior at the office what is that "save"or "new directory" logo, or what "CC" stands for in an email, or what a dialup connection is!
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#84Yes! I've been using RSS (feedbro reader) to de-algorithm social media for a long time now. Twitter (via nitter), Facebook (public posts only), HN, etc. It's all in a chronological RSS feed. No algorithms choosing what I see, no infinite scroll. If it's not a public post from a user I added, I don't see it. Luckily all my close friends are public-only type posters so it works. My pet conspiracy is that big tech has w…
How are you using Nitter? I’ve tried, but it’s a headache to host it.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Preferential to Miniflux myself, but any RSS reader is better than none.
I tried both, but Miniflux was like 15% _too_ bare-bones for me. FreshRSS hit the sweet spot for me, combined with NetNewsWire as a mobile UI
Yeah, even as a desktop UI NetNewsWire is great. FreshRSS rocks
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#86Does anyone know if there is a self-hosted rss tool which exposes the data over API? I am interested in processing feeds programmatically but ideally would prefer not to bother with writing the update / subscription / parsing logic myself.
Run "rss2email" then your API becomes IMAP/POP3?
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#87Is there any RSS reader that is also able to subscribe to newsletters in some way? There are lot of contents that are only provided as newsletters nowadays and I wanted to be able to read my feed and newsletters in the same app, without going into my mail inbox.
If you want everything in one place, and you're using email already, then it sounds like you want one of the various rss2email projects.
Feed entries then become emails which sit in your inbox/folders alongside your existing [emailed] newsletters.
(I prefer this approach myself, I can filter and search via my mail client, and manage state easily.)
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#88RSS is underrated.
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#89I use my own RSS reader [0]. I found other to be lacking in some areas.
I use it also for:
- bookmarks
- web crawling
- simple search engine
I also created simple RSS reader/parser, and web crawling system [1].
Links:
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#90The only complaint I have about RSS is that it seems antagonistic to edits. It's not usual that, when refreshing my podcast RSS feed, there are multiple versions of the same episodes because they made some edit somewhere in the title or description, etc. I've had five versions of the same episode before. I feel like we should have the technology to fix this by now :P
RSS provides GUID + update timestamp which combined allows the client to integrate changes or replace entries.