[HN Gopher] RSS-proxy: create an RSS/ATOM or JSON feed of almost... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | 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/ | | [1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge | | [2] https://www.freshrss.org/ | | [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... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-11-28 23:00 UTC)