> FYI: If you enable JavaScript then you be able to access additional options in the dropdown menus. The website should still be somewhat usable, but recent versions of Firefox will try to download the RSS feeds.<p>This is how you communicate with people with JavaScript disabled! Kudos. Most sites either present you with a blank page with no information, a blank page asking to enable JavaScript (even when the content is just text), or silently break some features.<p>That kind of respectful messaging alone is making me want to take a closer look. Though it should be “then you will be able”.<p>> Important: Please do not overload this service. Do not make more requests than you need.<p>What if we don’t have control over the frequency of requests (e.g. using a service like Feedly)? Do those happen often enough that we’d need to host the app ourselves?
I tried to tackle this issue in a more general way, so i wrote rss proxy [0], that analyzes the dom structure and derives feed candidates from it. Feel free to try the demo [1]<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy/</a>
[1] <a href="https://rssproxy.migor.org/" rel="nofollow">https://rssproxy.migor.org/</a>
You can actually get RSS feeds for YouTube: emacs users like myself who consume YouTube via elfeed have been doing it like so:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=<THE_ID>" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=<THE_ID...</a><p>Or<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<THE_ID>" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<THE_ID></a><p>More info here: <a href="https://joshrollinswrites.com/help-desk-head-desk/20200611/" rel="nofollow">https://joshrollinswrites.com/help-desk-head-desk/20200611/</a><p>It really helps to break away from the addictive properties of YouTube's "Up Next" algorithm
Does anyone remember Yahoo Pipes? That was awesome, I mostly used it (around 2008-2010) to make RSS for sites where it wasn't available <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes</a>
Off topic but since we are talking about RSS feeds: Is there a web service to replay feeds?<p>Use case are old blog archive one wants to (re-) read sequentially from the start but not in binge mode. So maybe one post per day or week. I'm thinking about the old posts of Aaron Swartz or Steve Yegge.<p>Just adding the feed to a feed reader is often not sufficient because the feed only contains the last 20 entries or so.
There's an open source service that does something similar, does anyone remember its name?<p><i>edit</i>: Both rssbox in the OP, and RSS-bridge[1] are open source. I was thinking of the latter. There's also RSSHub[2].<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub</a>
The service <a href="https://feed43.com" rel="nofollow">https://feed43.com</a> will enable you you to build a RSS feed out of pretty much anything with a URL. I use it to build RSS out of sha256 release files, vendor client download release pages, changelogs, etc.
Anyone ever did something like this for Facebook?<p>I know it'd have to be subjective per user (security ACLs ⇒ different accounts seeing differing subsets of other accounts' posts); but I'd be fine with just getting my own account's subjective view, by logging into such a service using Facebook OAuth (or, if that isn't enough, then I'd be fine with handing over my Facebook creds themselves, ala XAuth, provided the service is a FOSS one I'm running a copy of myself in e.g. an ownCloud instance.)<p>I also know that it'd likely require heavyweight scraping using e.g. Puppeteer, to fool Facebook into thinking it's real traffic. But that's not really <i>that</i> much of an impediment, as long as you don't need to scale it to more than a dozen-or-so scrapes per second. (Which you'd automatically be safe from if it was a host-it-yourself solution, since there'd only be one concurrent user of your instance.)<p>Anyone done this?
A somewhat unconventional UI for following content, which incidentally works with RSS Box, is Fraidycat[0]. It groups recent posts under “individuals” with a visualization of how much recent activity there is in a given feed, and allows to choose “follow intensity” which works in a nice and transparent way.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22545878" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22545878</a>
Related (maybe) but tangential, does anyone know of a good web to text converter? Back in the day you used to just use Lynx, is that still the way or has it been surpassed?
The are also RSSHub, which supports more site, but many of them are Chinese websites.<p><a href="https://docs.rsshub.app/en/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.rsshub.app/en/</a>
Soundcloud actually does have RSS feeds. I'm not sure how they're exposed to users (I forgot how I got this URL) but they exist:<p><a href="https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:169774121/sounds.rss" rel="nofollow">https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:16977412...</a>
I worry about this being swarmed by traffic and hugged to death. Since it's popular on HN, I imagine the particular Heroku instance is overwhelmed. I was surprised that it worked when I used it. I guess I'm gonna have to pony up and donate then...
In the same vein : RSS-Bridge<p><a href="https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge</a><p>(you can find multiple instances on the web)
I don't know if anyone will particularly care, but both Substack and MailChimp newsletters have RSS feeds, in case you prefer those over mail. With Substack, you merely append "feed/" to the end.<p>With Mailchimp, well, you look for a "view in browser" or "share this issue with friends" link in the newsletter. On the archive page it takes you to, an RSS link is on the righthand corner.
RSS Box is great - perfect for the kind of sites where scraping from the HTML is problematic because the HTML changes so much.<p>I work on a somewhat similar project called Feed Creator which can be used for less popular pages where you can select elements for the feed using CSS selectors: <a href="https://createfeed.fivefilters.org" rel="nofollow">https://createfeed.fivefilters.org</a>
I wrote a similar tool (but not as polished) that requires you to write custom plugins. This works well if you have websites that are hard to scrape in an automated way. Maybe it's useful to someone else: <a href="https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge</a>
My own problem with services like this is that I don't want to tell their owners what blogs I read. It's a privacy concern.<p>I'd feel much more comfortable using a standalone tool that I could run on my own laptop (ideally one that didn't require running a web server or even a web browser).
All I want is something that lets me get an RSS feed of Instagram accounts I follow, by giving nothing except the URL or username. I've tried 4 separate services that all work at first, then -- a week, a month, an indefinite time in the future -- stop working and never resume again.
<a href="https://feed43.com/" rel="nofollow">https://feed43.com/</a> does it for almost any website provided you fiddle with a bit of "code"
I selfhost this: <a href="https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge</a><p>I highly recommend it.
If you want to process an RSS feed programmatically, you have to run code to poll the feed and keep track of items already processed. This isn't hard to write, but it's often not core to your app's logic.<p>You probably just want to run code on each new item in the feed.<p>Pipedream lets you treat an RSS feed as an event source. Pipedream runs the code to poll the feed, emitting new items as the feed produces them.<p>RSS for Hackers - <a href="https://rss.pipedream.com" rel="nofollow">https://rss.pipedream.com</a>