I like this: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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Thank you. I'll try to get that setup on docker at some point today.
FreshRSS is what I use and I can create my own feeds using X path, it's kinda great but too much to explain. I wrote a blog about it.
https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/newsboat-queries-and-freshrss-scraping/
Don't know if this will achieve what you want, but I selfhost ChangeDetection.io to check if webpages have been updated, then subscribe to changedetection's RSS feed with FreshRSS.
Interesting option! I don't think it will suit my needs for this particular request, but I do have other uses for it =) Thank you for the suggestion.
Fairly simple using Python locally with no need for a server: requests-html to get the website front page, then loop through the articles using feedgenerator to increment a feed object, then pipe it as XML to a file.
Obviously this is not simple at all but it does work. I have been consuming an RSS-free site by RSS every day for the last year. Provided you ensure theguid for each item is its URL, the RSS reader will keep track of what you have seen already, in order, which of course is the magic feature of RSS.
For Lemmy (which doesn't have a native RSS feed) I'm using Open RSS. It might be worth entering the sites you're trying to access into that, and see if it can produce feeds for you.
Lemmy does have RSS feeds, just click the RSS icons in various places:
- local communities: https://lemmy.world/feeds/local.xml?sort=Active
- all communities: https://lemmy.world/feeds/all.xml?sort=Active
- subscribed communities: https://lemmy.world/feeds/front/RANDOM_KEY.xml?sort=Active
- /c/selfhosted: https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/selfhosted.xml?sort=Active
- ...
Holy crap! This is a game changer, thanks!
I usually just resort to webscraping