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There is RSS-Bridge which is doing exactly that: A plugin per website, common libraries. A pragmatic approach. Trying to build a generalized framework handling

There is RSS-Bridge which is doing exactly that: A plugin per website, common libraries. A pragmatic approach. Trying to build a generalized framework handling each and every edge case promises endless complexity. https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

searchableguy 6y ago
> Dear so-called "social" websites. > Your catchword is "share", but you don't want us to share. You want to keep us within your walled gardens. That's why you've been removing RSS links from webpages, hiding them deep on your website, or removed feeds entirely, replacing it with crippled or demented proprietary API. FUCK YOU. > You're not social when you hamper sharing by removing feeds. You're happy to have customers creating content for your ecosystem, but you don't want this content out - a content you do not even own. Google Takeout is just a gimmick. We want our data to flow, we want RSS or Atom feeds. > We want to share with friends, using open protocols: RSS, Atom, XMPP, whatever. Because no one wants to have your service with your applications using your API force-feeding them. Friends must be free to choose whatever software and service they want. > We are rebuilding bridges you have wilfully destroyed. Get your shit together: Put RSS/Atom back in. From that readme. Nice project! I wish someone would make a social rss reader. It would be pretty neat. Although, activitypub might be better protocol for that.
- beagle3 6y ago
  Check out NewsBlur. It’s a social feed reader.
ThePadawan 6y ago
I'm currently using rss-bridge and have not had that great of an experience. I put some of that down to the site-specific bridges, but some problems persist: - I regularly recieve feed updates that mark all articles as "new" (i.e. the bridge fails to recognize that it already exported some articles before) - I also often receive "error 521" from rss-bridge (i.e. the bridge cannot create a feed), but on manual investigation, the feed can be created just fine. I assume this is due to a lack of request throttling somewhere in the process, but can't be bothered to investigate.

searchableguy 6y ago

> Dear so-called "social" websites. > Your catchword is "share", but you don't want us to share. You want to keep us within your walled gardens. That's why you've been removing RSS links from webpages, hiding them deep on your website, or removed feeds entirely, replacing it with crippled or demented proprietary API. FUCK YOU. > You're not social when you hamper sharing by removing feeds. You're happy to have customers creating content for your ecosystem, but you don't want this content out - a content you do not even own. Google Takeout is just a gimmick. We want our data to flow, we want RSS or Atom feeds. > We want to share with friends, using open protocols: RSS, Atom, XMPP, whatever. Because no one wants to have your service with your applications using your API force-feeding them. Friends must be free to choose whatever software and service they want. > We are rebuilding bridges you have wilfully destroyed. Get your shit together: Put RSS/Atom back in. From that readme. Nice project! I wish someone would make a social rss reader. It would be pretty neat. Although, activitypub might be better protocol for that.

beagle3 6y ago
Check out NewsBlur. It’s a social feed reader.

ThePadawan 6y ago

I'm currently using rss-bridge and have not had that great of an experience. I put some of that down to the site-specific bridges, but some problems persist: - I regularly recieve feed updates that mark all articles as "new" (i.e. the bridge fails to recognize that it already exported some articles before) - I also often receive "error 521" from rss-bridge (i.e. the bridge cannot create a feed), but on manual investigation, the feed can be created just fine. I assume this is due to a lack of request throttling somewhere in the process, but can't be bothered to investigate.