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This is cool! On a related note, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that substack publishes RSS feeds of each and every blog hosted on its service. Sorta t
by endlessvoid94 5y ago
This is cool!
On a related note, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that substack publishes RSS feeds of each and every blog hosted on its service. Sorta the opposite of this!
- adrusi 5y agoThere's no way of accessing subscriber-only substack posts via RSS though, at least not without something else in the mix like a web scraper or a tool like kill-the-newsletter. They do offer their own reader that aggregates all posts from substack you subscribe to and lets you add external feeds, which is nice, but then you're locked into that reader.
- endlessvoid94 5y agoI wonder how we'd go about building a paid RSS feed. Seems like you'd need to craft an extension to the protocol.
- adrusi 5y agoWell a simple solution is to generate unique feed links for each subscriber, make it infeasible to guess links, and monitor if a link is being shared too widely. Since it's just http there are plenty of authentication options, but no standard. Various readers support some kind of auth though.