RSSfeedASAP
Dev tools
feed extraction
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
3 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Execution: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 3 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea and a good web service version of an existing workflow
From 2 comments
Maybe I misunderstood, this tries to find RSS feeds from sites, not generate RSS feeds for sites that don't have them, right? I've been using RSSPreview addon on Firefox for a…
ajot on HNNice work, I was able to extract out a feed URL from a Listnr exclusive podcast and can now add it to my normal podcast app without needing to use their stupid propriatary one.…
joshschreuder on HN
Objections
Only detects existing feeds, does not generate them for many sites
From 2 comments
Nice, but this seems to only detect some existing RSS feeds on a given website. * Shameless plug * Our feed generator can detect existing RSS feeds, and combines a scraper and…
nreece on HNTried on https://openai.com/blog and got an error `Houston, we have a problem!.` Looks like this is just a search for existing rss feeds
wanderingmind on HN
Errors on some sites such as news.ycombinator.com and openai.com/blog
From 2 comments
I tried https://news.ycombinator.com and it's saying an error occurred.
smusamashah on HNTried on https://openai.com/blog and got an error `Houston, we have a problem!.` Looks like this is just a search for existing rss feeds
wanderingmind on HN
Fails to detect feed on a blog with unquoted alternate link attribute
From 2 comments
Strange. I tried it with my blog and it said there was no feed https://kevincox.ca. I definitely have a alternate link tag set up.
kevincox on HNWhat it's worth my own RSS reader also fails to find any feeds from your site because my parser expects the link type to be quoted with either single or double quotes. Not sure…
throwaway798214 on HN
Requests
Hide recently extracted feeds from the home page
From 1 comment
Can I suggest removing recently extracted or having a way to hide whatever you extract from the home page?
RockRobotRock on HN
Support for Google News search feeds
From 1 comment
Is there a way to use it with Google News (with all advanced search options)? Thanks
croatan on HN
Use previous or archived page versions such as the Wayback Machine
From 1 comment
i play a lot with broken feeds. for your tool i imagine one could examine previous or following editions of a page or the wayback machine.
throwaway14356 on HN
Questions
Can it be used with Google News advanced search?
From 1 comment
Is there a way to use it with Google News (with all advanced search options)? Thanks
croatan on HN
Does it use alternate meta tags to detect feeds?
From 2 comments
Do you use alternate meta tag to detect the rss feed?
idosh on HNIt uses several techniques one of which is also meta tags.
roks0n on HN
Alternatives named
RSS-Bridge
From 1 comment
There's also RSS-Bridge: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge "The RSS feed for websites missing it"
schnubbidubb on HN
RSSHub
From 1 comment
This is a good application. However, I think that among similar products, https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub is a more usable choice(able to generate RSS). In addition, using…
wulu on HN
Feed43
From 1 comment
Feed43 used to be that.[0] [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230326224112/https://feed43.com/
zouhair on HN
FreshRSS
From 1 comment
I recently installed self-hosted FreshRSS, an rss reader which can _create_ rss feeds from sites that don't provide them using techniques like xpath selectors.…
darkstar999 on HN
rss2email
From 1 comment
https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email
largo3 on HN