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RSS’ death is real - 15 years ago, almost every news site had a RSS feed, some had several ones. Today? RSS feed is rare. So if you want to make news feed from
by sixtyj 8mo ago
RSS’ death is real - 15 years ago, almost every news site had a RSS feed, some had several ones. Today? RSS feed is rare.
So if you want to make news feed from news sites, you have to use parsing their html code, and ofc everybody has its own structure. JS powered sites are painful ones.
- 6510 8mo agoThere are feeds of everything. You just have to look harder. edit: provide an example please
- quectophoton 8mo agoNot exactly a "news" site, but this is still an example site that you'd expect would have a feed: https://mistral.ai/news/ https://mistral.ai/news/
- olowe 8mo agoMistral used to serve a feed actually up until 6ish months ago I guess? Their admin console used to be built with HTMX too which I found kinda interesting. Now the news site and admin console is all in Next.js and slow and no feed.
- 6510 8mo agowill this do? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds/main/feeds/feed_mistral_news.xml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds/main/feeds... from here https://github.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds https://github.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds
- crabmusket 8mo agoHere's an example https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-are-RSS-feeds-no-longer-being-updated https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-...
- aragilar 8mo agoIt's all about licensing sadly...
- 6510 8mo agoIt is somehow less funny today but in the 90's we would say "is there something wrong with your hands?" A truly funny story: I wrote an rss aggregator and one day I discover some feeds had died without me noticing it. I looked at the feed, it was gone, I look at my aggregate and the headlines were all there?!?! Since I gather a lot of feeds I couldn't help but noticed that a very large amount isn't wellformed. For example, in xml attributes the & (in urls) is suppose to be &, if you do that however many aggregators won't be able to parse it. Every other month I wrote little bits of code to address the most annoying issues. 1) if I cant find a <link> or <guide> etc I eventually just gather <a>'s and take the href. 2) if I really cant find a title for the item I had it fail back on whatever is in the <a> since I was gathering those anyway. 3) if I cant even find an <item> I just look for the things that are suppose to go in the <item> 4) if I cant find a proper time stamp ill try parse one out of the url 5) if the urls are relative path complete them. What was actually going on: The feed was gone, it redirected to the home page. In an attempt to parse the "xml" it eventually resorted to gathering the url and title from the <a>'s and build valid time stamps from the urls.
- 6510 8mo agoUh, they lie about everything? https://www.abc.net.au/news/feed/51120/rss.xml https://www.abc.net.au/news/feed/51120/rss.xml I haven't fully examined it but looking at the xml I see it was last build in 2026 and a headline about Women's Asian Cup 2026. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-05/matildas-iran-asian-cup-quick-hits-hayley-raso-mary-fowler/106413886
- crabmusket 7mo agoOh that's wild. I guess the system is just on autopilot and nobody knew how to actually act on their policy change.
- reaperducer 8mo ago15 years ago, almost every news site had a RSS feed, some had several ones. Today? RSS feed is rare. It may be a reflection of where you get your news. New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Radio Free Europe, Mainichi, and lots of other legitimate primary source Big-J journalism news sites have RSS. Rando McRepost's AI-Generated Rehash Blog? Not so much.
- wink 8mo agoI don't know, I also only use RSS (with the exception of Reddit I think) so I would not even notice a website that a) provides content I want to get notified about and not actively visit for a reason and b) has no feed.
- extra88 7mo agoReddit also has RSS feeds, add `.rss` to urls.