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I love RSS feeds. You can convert Twitter to RSS: http://twitrss.me http://twitrss.me Websites that don't have RSS: https://feedity.com/ https://feedity.com/

I love RSS feeds. You can convert Twitter to RSS: http://twitrss.me http://twitrss.me Websites that don't have RSS: https://feedity.com/ https://feedity.com/ Email to RSS: https://zapier.com https://zapier.com Hackernews RSS:http://hnrss.org/newest?points=300 http://hnrss.org/newest?points=300 You can even use RSS for finding a job: https://www.indeed.ca/jobs?q=millwright&l=Toronto,+ON&sort=date https://www.indeed.ca/jobs?q=millwright&l=Toronto,+ON&sort=d...

k1m 8y ago
I work on a project which creates RSS feeds for sites which don't offer their own: Feed Creator - http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/ http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/ And one which converts partial feeds into full-text feeds: https://fivefilters.org/content-only/ https://fivefilters.org/content-only/
- dewey 8y ago
  Cool project, I was searching for something like this a while ago and then tried to build something similar. It's not as cool and full featured as yours though; you have to write your own plugins for each site. It was still fun to build though. https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge
  - k1m 8y ago
    I came across your project a while ago. I was actually trying to search for it today to post a link to it in reply to another comment. I only remembered the 'bridge' part and assumed it was in PHP, so my search didn't bring it up. :)
- sonar_un 8y ago
  I use a modified Scrape ‘N Feed to scrape the sites I need without RSS. With this I can go another level deeper and scrape the entire article and return that back to the feed instead of just getting the snippet. https://www.crummy.com/software/ScrapeNFeed/ https://www.crummy.com/software/ScrapeNFeed/
toomuchtodo 8y ago
Are you aware of an open source/non-commercial email to RSS solution?
- jayalpha 8y ago
  No. But Zapier is free for limited applications. But yes, wish TinyTinyRSS would offer all this functionality. Other RSS readers might be better, but I always return to TinyTinyRSS.
  - toomuchtodo 8y ago
    An open, distributed web demands open source tooling. I can appreciate benevolent corporations (Zapier goes above and beyond for their users, and is generous with their free plan), but nothing lasts forever; open source code once public can always be maintained and built upon further.
- vanev_ 8y ago
  https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/ https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/
- mattmcknight 8y ago
  https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur is open source, commercial.
hirundo 8y ago
> You can convert Twitter to RSS: http://twitrss.me http://twitrss.me From that link: > 2018-10-17: Twitter are rate limiting requests from TwitRSS.me, meaning it is effectively broken until I can think of a way round it. You can still run your own instance
fireattack 8y ago
>feedity I used this before, but its delay is just too much for anything that requires timeliness. The free tier of feed43 is a little bit better I think (still have hours delay sometimes..)
JetSpiegel 8y ago
Instead of sending your Twitter followers to a random cloud service (and getting it rate-limited), run your own RSS-Bridge to generate RSS from sites that don't have them, like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. If you use it yourself and some friends, rate limiting is not a problem. https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/ https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/ For HN, you can run that very same codebase from https://hnrss.org https://hnrss.org: https://github.com/edavis/go-hnrss https://github.com/edavis/go-hnrss

k1m 8y ago

I work on a project which creates RSS feeds for sites which don't offer their own: Feed Creator - http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/ http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/ And one which converts partial feeds into full-text feeds: https://fivefilters.org/content-only/ https://fivefilters.org/content-only/

dewey 8y ago
Cool project, I was searching for something like this a while ago and then tried to build something similar. It's not as cool and full featured as yours though; you have to write your own plugins for each site. It was still fun to build though. https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge
- k1m 8y ago
  I came across your project a while ago. I was actually trying to search for it today to post a link to it in reply to another comment. I only remembered the 'bridge' part and assumed it was in PHP, so my search didn't bring it up. :)
sonar_un 8y ago
I use a modified Scrape ‘N Feed to scrape the sites I need without RSS. With this I can go another level deeper and scrape the entire article and return that back to the feed instead of just getting the snippet. https://www.crummy.com/software/ScrapeNFeed/ https://www.crummy.com/software/ScrapeNFeed/

toomuchtodo 8y ago

Are you aware of an open source/non-commercial email to RSS solution?

jayalpha 8y ago
No. But Zapier is free for limited applications. But yes, wish TinyTinyRSS would offer all this functionality. Other RSS readers might be better, but I always return to TinyTinyRSS.
- toomuchtodo 8y ago
  An open, distributed web demands open source tooling. I can appreciate benevolent corporations (Zapier goes above and beyond for their users, and is generous with their free plan), but nothing lasts forever; open source code once public can always be maintained and built upon further.
vanev_ 8y ago
https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/ https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/
mattmcknight 8y ago
https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur is open source, commercial.

hirundo 8y ago

> You can convert Twitter to RSS: http://twitrss.me http://twitrss.me From that link: > 2018-10-17: Twitter are rate limiting requests from TwitRSS.me, meaning it is effectively broken until I can think of a way round it. You can still run your own instance

fireattack 8y ago

>feedity I used this before, but its delay is just too much for anything that requires timeliness. The free tier of feed43 is a little bit better I think (still have hours delay sometimes..)

JetSpiegel 8y ago

Instead of sending your Twitter followers to a random cloud service (and getting it rate-limited), run your own RSS-Bridge to generate RSS from sites that don't have them, like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. If you use it yourself and some friends, rate limiting is not a problem. https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/ https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/ For HN, you can run that very same codebase from https://hnrss.org https://hnrss.org: https://github.com/edavis/go-hnrss https://github.com/edavis/go-hnrss