[HN Gopher] RSS-proxy: create an RSS/ATOM or JSON feed of almost...
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       RSS-proxy: create an RSS/ATOM or JSON feed of almost any website
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 119 points
       Date   : 2021-11-28 15:39 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | thirdplace_ wrote:
       | Good work there. Imagine if we had a universal feed generator
       | that could generate a feed out of everything. No more manual
       | checking labor.
        
         | smbv wrote:
         | RSS saved me the "right click on a bookmark folder -> open all"
         | every hour or so. Does RSS increase my productivity or decrease
         | it? On one hand, I'm not obsessively checking a bunch of
         | websites. On the other hand, I have a firehose of content
         | directed at my face with hundreds of feeds.
        
         | acidburnNSA wrote:
         | RSS Hub also attempts to be exactly that:
         | https://docs.rsshub.app/en/
        
       | 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
       | "... almost any website."
       | 
       | What are the domain names of some (dynamic) websites where this
       | will not work.
        
         | marginalia_nu wrote:
         | Only guessing, but https://oeis.org/ ?
        
       | smbv wrote:
       | As a big fan of RSS (I read HN through hnrss[0]), this is
       | wonderful. It seems to be a nice catch-all for whatever websites
       | rss-bridge doesn't support.
       | 
       | If any of you are looking into RSS, check out FreshRSS[2] (an RSS
       | aggregator). A mobile client I especially like is NetNewsWire[3]
       | (for Apple products only, but is imo amazing)
       | 
       | [0] https://hnrss.github.io/
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       | [1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
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       | [2] https://www.freshrss.org/
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       | [3] https://netnewswire.com/
        
         | stanislavb wrote:
         | Thanks! RSSHub is another option we could add to the mix
         | https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub.
         | 
         | Also, all projects mentioned on this thread can be tracked and
         | easily compared on LibHunt
         | https://www.libhunt.com/posts/500676-rss-proxy-create-an-rss...
        
         | mderazon wrote:
         | Netnewawire looks great! Any similar recommendations for
         | Android ?
        
         | lelandfe wrote:
         | Seconding NetNewsWire. A recent version added iCloud sync so
         | your feeds and unread statuses sync across the desktop and
         | mobile version. Somehow it's free.
        
         | rambambram wrote:
         | Ah, I like FreshRSS, based on what I can see from it. It's
         | written in PHP and free.
        
         | phil294 wrote:
         | To elaborate on this, RSS-Bridge maintains custom extraction
         | rules for many sites [1], but RSS-proxy attempts to do that for
         | _any_ site using some pretty nifty logic [2]. I tried it on a
         | few pages and it seems to do its job accurately, if the HTML is
         | good enough.
         | 
         | Semantic HTML5 can be so helpful, especially in regards to
         | tools like this one, or crawlers, or generally accessibility-
         | wise. Unfortunately, its syntax is not enforced by browsers
         | (for good reasons), so many developers never leverage it - and
         | we end up with many custom-built sites falling back to <div>s
         | everywhere, JS click handlers on non-interactive elements etc.
         | I really wish modern framework docs and guides would more
         | strongly hint to accessibility concerns.
         | 
         | [1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-
         | bridge/tree/master/bridges [2] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-
         | proxy/blob/master/packages/cor...
        
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