HungryHippo VS ttrss_plugin-feediron

It seems that RSS feed generators are a bit like static site generators: it's often thought to be easier to make your own than to learn to use someone else's.

Anyway, here's another self-hosted open source RSS feed generator for arbitrary websites: https://github.com/hueyy/HungryHippo

HungryHippo generates RSS feeds for websites that don't have one. If the website you're trying to monitor is public it might be supported already. If not, you can always send in a pull request or open an issue. It can be hosted with a single docker image, so it's quite straightforward.

It Technically could but as far as I am aware it doesn't.

Some alternatives

TT-RSS has multiple plugins, including the one I currently support https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron

FressRSS has CSS selector support out of the box and has a readability extension that supports Readability or Mercury

I've been dreaming of porting Feediron to both FreshRSS and Nextcloud news. But I barely have any free time as is... one day

Back when I was using Tiny Tiny RSS I've developed af_feedmod to download the article from the linked webpage so you'd end up with a full feed. This was later forked into FeedIron and seems to be somewhat popular by now.

I'm a die hard TT-RSS user, mainly because of the Feediron plugin (A full text page parser) that I now maintain.

The official plugin uses a php port of Mozilla's Readability, which is used for Firefox Reader Mode. There is also the 3rd party FeedIron that is more configurable.

https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron

Always good to see RSS projects pop up on hackernews. I'm still maintaining the Feediron plugin for TT-RSS - https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron

Unlike this project Feediron is only for modifying existing RSS feeds to extract the desired information. Typically uses xpaths to select content

> I've never open sourced it though because I guess it's a bit of a grey area

I'm maintaining the TT-RSS plugin feediron https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron that fetches full-text data, so my thinking is this:

At the end of the day if it's a openly available website and you are personally (through your own server) fetching the resources I don't think anyone has a right to complain.

Now if you were offering it as a service it might arguably be a bit more grey, but only if you're ignoring the robots.txt file

So you plan something like the FeedIron TT-RSS Plugin (https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron) to allow customization of a feed to get relevant content?