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This is great, a lot of people don’t know RSS exists but would be technical enough to use them if pointed in the right direction. Somewhat related, I built a s
by dewey 8y ago
This is great, a lot of people don’t know RSS exists but would be technical enough to use them if pointed in the right direction.
Somewhat related, I built a small tool to scrape sites with no feeds and generate one: https://feedbridge.notmyhostna.me/ https://feedbridge.notmyhostna.me/
- boastful_inaba 8y agoHuh, interesting! How do you think your site compares to say, Feed43?
- dewey 8y agoHaven’t heard of them before, I know there are some tools to generate feeds by selecting elements on the page and then the tool figures everything. One of the tools I tried didn’t work for the site I needed it for and so I just wrote it myself, mostly for fun.
- boastful_inaba 8y agoFeed43 is based around pattern matching - it mostly assumes a well-structured HTML document with predictable tags, and it's that method for every site. You seem to have some sort of custom plugin architecture, I guess?
- dewey 8y agoExactly, mine is really only focused on sites that are either hard to scrape (login, blocking, not well formatted,...) right now. So either site you want to integrate requires a custom plugin. It's pretty niche but the repository can be found here in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge