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> The idea is to transform XML RSS to JSON and transform any article URL to plaintext by a nodejs script via an HTTP API SaaS or whatever you call it. So not r
by GloriousKoji 6y ago
> The idea is to transform XML RSS to JSON and transform any article URL to plaintext by a nodejs script via an HTTP API SaaS or whatever you call it.
So not really an RSS reader.
- croshan 6y agoSo critical. So some parsing is done off the device due to performance constraints. You'll need internet access anyway to pull down the RSS feeds, and a middleman Lambda/CF worker won't add much latency. I think it's a perfectly acceptable tradeoff.
- input_sh 6y agoI actually prefer this approach. Basically go around websites not serving full articles via RSS by parsing them via Readability or mercury-parser or whatever. Can't back it up, but I'm pretty sure some online RSS services use the same trick. Makes for a better UX than "click here to read the full story".