[HN Gopher] RSS-Bridge - The RSS feed for websites missing it
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       RSS-Bridge - The RSS feed for websites missing it
        
       Author : detaro
       Score  : 86 points
       Date   : 2022-01-02 19:19 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | thirdplace_ wrote:
       | Some rss feeds only include a snippet of the entire item text.
       | One nice thing about rss-bridge is that bridges can expand an
       | existing feed to include the entire item content.
       | 
       | In essence the project is a scraper that generates web feeds.
        
         | kartoshechka wrote:
         | ttrss has (an official?) plugin to do that (fetch full text
         | from title only RSS feeds), and I'm sure other feed readers can
         | do it from the box or via plugins
        
       | karlicoss wrote:
       | Wonder what's are the differences from
       | https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub and
       | https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat
       | 
       | I guess projects might have different goals in mind, but IMO
       | would be nice to share the scrapers among the projects
        
         | noizejoy wrote:
         | I actually prefer a world with multiple alternatives rather
         | than single instances.
         | 
         | Life itself works that way and it has proven to make life very
         | robust, even when individual life-forms are very fragile.
        
       | sitta wrote:
       | Unfortunately, the Facebook bridge is very broken and no longer
       | maintained. From the public pages I've tried, it only
       | intermittently works on at most half of them.
       | 
       | I don't blame them for not maintaining it though. I grabbed the
       | code to see if I could get it working and realized Facebook has
       | made their newer pages fiendishly difficult to scrape. Assuming
       | one does put in the effort to make it work, how long will it last
       | till it's broken again?
       | 
       | I wish there was a viable alternative platform for organizations
       | where "public" content is actually accessible publicly.
        
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