Feed Creator 2.0
Dev tools
feed generator
SHOW HN2020
24points
9comments
#1,545of 3,028 in 2020
Top 52%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.
Idea: 2 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool project and useful idea for sites without feeds
From 2 comments
Cool project! I've recently created something similar for personal use. I have many websites (mainly webshops) I want to be notified about changes on, but they don't have RSS…
stekern on HNYou're right. RSS could be enough to use for automation
jslakro on HN
Objections
Generated feeds may be brittle and produce false positives
From 2 comments
Cool project! I've recently created something similar for personal use. I have many websites (mainly webshops) I want to be notified about changes on, but they don't have RSS…
stekern on HNThanks! I haven't given the issue of unique identifiers too much thought because in most cases I assume the item URL is less likely to change than the text and will serve as the…
k1m on HN
Possible copyright issues with scraping content
From 1 comment
I’d be worried about copyright issue. In many cases, the client doesn’t care/know about content copyright and just crawling. (P/s: I used to develop a blogging platform and find…
docuru on HN
Requests
Let users choose an identifier for item guid
From 1 comment
Thanks! I haven't given the issue of unique identifiers too much thought because in most cases I assume the item URL is less likely to change than the text and will serve as the…
k1m on HN
Zapier or IFTTT integration
From 1 comment
This seems a halfway before create a webscraping solution. Adding support for integrate automation with zapier or ifttt could help to close the circle. Nice project
jslakro on HN
Questions
Is it self-hostable?
From 1 comment
Is this service self-hostable?
Ambroisie on HN
How to handle false positives and unique identifiers?
From 1 comment
Cool project! I've recently created something similar for personal use. I have many websites (mainly webshops) I want to be notified about changes on, but they don't have RSS…
stekern on HN
Alternatives named
Custom cron scrapers with XPaths and email alerts
From 1 comment
Cool project! I've recently created something similar for personal use. I have many websites (mainly webshops) I want to be notified about changes on, but they don't have RSS…
stekern on HN