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Show HN: RSS Feed Discovery Engine
Proprietary feed readers don't reveal their discovery algorithms.
This is a FOSS solution to that problem.
Also has an api:
https://discovery.thirdplace.no/api?q=https://drewdevault.com https://discovery.thirdplace.no/api?q=https://drewdevault.co...
- derekzhouzhen 4y agoSo it is just alternate link meta then a bunch of heuristics for well known websites? IMHO, everyone should just do the alternate link meta and save everyone else the trouble. Once you made a special rule for someone big, you are just encourage them continue to be sloppy.
- thirdplace_ 4y agoYou are mostly right. There is some additional value provided: With known feed urls e.g. https://www.meetup.com/%s/events/rss/ https://www.meetup.com/%s/events/rss/ we can save the network call to meetup.com and produce the feed url immediately. This is also an argument for making a browser addon or at least some client code that can produce it. Discovered feed urls are cached which saves the direct network call to a possibly slow site. The service produces third-party feeds for websites that don't have it e.g. https://twitter.com/elonmusk https://twitter.com/elonmusk => https://nitter.net/elonmusk/rss https://nitter.net/elonmusk/rss
- derekzhouzhen 4y agoFYI, I have a lint tool to check the consistency between the blog homepage / blog posts to the blog feed. The alternate link is the first step. https://roastidio.us/lint https://roastidio.us/lint