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Ask YC: RSS feed for all new posts submitted to Hacker News?

10 points by zeedotme 17y ago

I'm looking for a way to grab the rss feed for all new submissions to YC - is there a way? With thanks.

ilSignorCarlo 17y ago
There's a link on the bottom of the main page. Anyway, here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/rss http://news.ycombinator.com/rss
- kenver 17y ago
  Thats the highest rated feed, I think this post is about adding one for http://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://news.ycombinator.com/newest
  - zeedotme 17y ago
    don't think there's an RSS feed for that :/
    - helium 17y ago
      I have written a screen scraper for the page in ruby. Mail me if you want it. You might be able to generate a feed from that.
    - jthralow 17y ago
      Take a look at Mozenda.com I was using them for basic scraping, but I read on their site that they have an extension to turn what they scrape directly into and RSS feed. Hope that helps.
  - LeBleu 17y ago
    At 650 posts a week, I don't think that feed is highest rated. I've clicked plenty of articles from the feed that are low rated or brand new. I wish there was a highest rated feed - the default feed is way too noisy.
nreece 17y ago
There you go: http://feedity.com/rss.aspx/ycombinator-com/UlFVU1pU http://feedity.com/rss.aspx/ycombinator-com/UlFVU1pU Give our startup a try, to create a custom RSS feed: Feedity - http://feedity.com http://feedity.com
- vorador 17y ago
  by the way, why do you limit the number of feeds in a free account to ten while apparently an user without an account could create an unlimited number of feeds ?
  - nreece 17y ago
    Yes, a user without an account can create unlimited feeds, but those feeds self-update much slowly (as compared to feeds for a user with an account), and secondly, a user without an account cannot manage all their feeds in one place (i.e. to edit the feeds later, to check stats, or to create streams etc).
    - vorador 17y ago
      But I still think that the number of feeds for a free user is ridiculously low. I think that you should double it even if it means reducing the refresh rate for all feeds (or maybe having a "normal" refresh rate for the ten first feeds and a "lower" refresh rate for the other ones) Edit: And you don't have to tell the users about it.
marcusbooster 17y ago
While your at it, a rss feed for http://news.ycombinator.com/best http://news.ycombinator.com/best would be great!

10 points by zeedotme 17y ago

I'm looking for a way to grab the rss feed for all new submissions to YC - is there a way? With thanks.

There's a link on the bottom of the main page. Anyway, here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/rss http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

kenver 17y ago
Thats the highest rated feed, I think this post is about adding one for http://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://news.ycombinator.com/newest
- zeedotme 17y ago
  don't think there's an RSS feed for that :/
  - helium 17y ago
    I have written a screen scraper for the page in ruby. Mail me if you want it. You might be able to generate a feed from that.
  - jthralow 17y ago
    Take a look at Mozenda.com I was using them for basic scraping, but I read on their site that they have an extension to turn what they scrape directly into and RSS feed. Hope that helps.
- LeBleu 17y ago
  At 650 posts a week, I don't think that feed is highest rated. I've clicked plenty of articles from the feed that are low rated or brand new. I wish there was a highest rated feed - the default feed is way too noisy.

nreece 17y ago

There you go: http://feedity.com/rss.aspx/ycombinator-com/UlFVU1pU http://feedity.com/rss.aspx/ycombinator-com/UlFVU1pU Give our startup a try, to create a custom RSS feed: Feedity - http://feedity.com http://feedity.com

vorador 17y ago
by the way, why do you limit the number of feeds in a free account to ten while apparently an user without an account could create an unlimited number of feeds ?
- nreece 17y ago
  Yes, a user without an account can create unlimited feeds, but those feeds self-update much slowly (as compared to feeds for a user with an account), and secondly, a user without an account cannot manage all their feeds in one place (i.e. to edit the feeds later, to check stats, or to create streams etc).
  - vorador 17y ago
    But I still think that the number of feeds for a free user is ridiculously low. I think that you should double it even if it means reducing the refresh rate for all feeds (or maybe having a "normal" refresh rate for the ten first feeds and a "lower" refresh rate for the other ones) Edit: And you don't have to tell the users about it.

marcusbooster 17y ago

While your at it, a rss feed for http://news.ycombinator.com/best http://news.ycombinator.com/best would be great!