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I hope RSS will not die. Recently, Reuters killed their RSS feed without any notice. I wrote a quick guide how to fix this using a hack with Google News RSS (h
by artembugara 6y ago
I hope RSS will not die.
Recently, Reuters killed their RSS feed without any notice. I wrote a quick guide how to fix this using a hack with Google News RSS (https://codarium.substack.com/p/returning-the-killed-rss-of-reuters https://codarium.substack.com/p/returning-the-killed-rss-of-...)
Also, while working on the execution plan to parse news articles for a News API service (https://newscatcherapi.com/ https://newscatcherapi.com/) we benchmarked a few options such as parsing sitemap, custom generic parser and parsing RSS feeds. It is so much easier to get structured content out of RSS... everything is well structured, normalized, lightweight webpage, etc
- Casperin 6y agoYeah, I couldn't agree more. RSS is flawed in many ways (really difficult to work with sometimes hand-written XML), but I love how decentralized it is. Awesome with your work! Keep fighting the good fight :)
- ghostpepper 6y agoThanks, your tip for restoring access to Reuters worked for me. I'm very appreciative. I wish there was some way to convince Reuters to restore it. I'd even be willing to pay a couple bucks to avoid keeping google informed of my news habits and still have access to one of the few relatively unbiased news sources left.
- throwaway45349 6y agoNice API! Out of curiosity, how much traction did you gain with it?
- artembugara 6y agoabout 400 develpers are using our API. OR, you meant with this comment?
- throwaway45349 6y agoNo - the API :) Admittedly I've tinkered with building out a similar idea so it's always nice to see people being successful with RSS tech.