MonitoRSS VS spotifeed

I love RSS. I take a bit of an unconventional approach and use Discord as my RSS reader. I run a self hosted instance of MonitoRSS (https://github.com/synzen/MonitoRSS). I have a server with just me and my bot instance and I tend to group my feeds into categories and channels (effectively creating a tab system per subscription or group of subscriptions). I have Discord installed on my laptop, phone, and desktop so this means that I can easily look at all my subscribed feeds wherever it's convenient for me. When I'm not set to "do not disturb", I even get push notifications on my devices when content is posted to feeds that go to channels I haven't muted. I think the only real downside of the setup is some days I am very busy and don't check the server that often, so I'll come back to a large backlog of things to read and I'll end up missing or under-appreciating some gems.

i have been using monitoRSS and its done well tbh

That bot is used in nearly 70 thousand servers, and is open source. You can probably trust it, the things its asking for (identify and guilds) are quite common with bot dashboards, so I wouldn't be too worried about it.

I remember the dev said that he had plans to implement that feature with this RSS bot but he doesn't have an ETA. At least according to a reply he made two months ago in that discord support channel. Otherwise it's a very fine RSS bot.

As long as the site supports RSS, you can use this bot called MonitoRSS. If for some reason, you'd like to try a different bot, I recommend top.gg for browsing for more options.

Monitor-RSS with rss-bridge Monitor-RSS allows me to filter RSS feeds obtained from rss-bridge with keywords and let's me embed them to discord. I mainly use xpath on rss-bridge to scrape sports news (fantasy football injuries) and add those feeds to Monitor-RSS that allows to filter them by player names or anything specific I am interested in. Sending those filtered feeds to Discord results in easy reading and manage them via discord tag or channel notifications. This way I get notified for stuff I am interested in and ignore anything not relevant 😎

And by using a bot like MonitoRSS you can get all updates within your discord server directly.

Overall porting content from heroku can be done with koyeb or other listed alternatives. ## References * https://github.com/synzen/MonitoRSS * https://blog.heroku.com/next-chapter

How does this compare to MonitoRSS?

I set up my own RSS feeds for a couple of things and use MonitoRSS to get feeds into channels.

Good afternoon, Does anyone know if it's possible to listen to Spotify exclusive podcasts on a different podcatcher like Overcast or Pocket Casts by using an RSS or OPML feed? I found https://spotifeed.timdorr.com/ but it seems to be deprecated.

I 'm not a podcast aficionado, so to say, but it does it's job. What do you want it to do, that it doesn't do right now? Also about Spotify podcast, yes you can't listen them through antennapod but you can import their rss through this

"Into an ogg file" is where this stops working. If you program your own game, you can of course point it to an RSS file and change that file's content to change the songs in the game - and with something like https://github.com/timdorr/spotifeed maybe even point to spotify. But that game code would still need to interpret the XML file and download the songs.

If you happen to find one for the Snack Pack that’s something I’d be willing to test my shamefulness on. Spotifeed used to be a thing but sadly went away. I don’t listen to Dax Shepard but I know there’s a megaphone.fm feed that has been going around that oddly you can get right from his links. It’s like Spotify forgot about it or something.

Is it possible to have it create feeds the way Spotifeed used to?

Sleep timer? Silence trimming? With other podcasts, it's up to you to pick a podcast app with the features you want -- you can even pay for a good one. With Spotify podcasts, it's up to Spotify, unless maybe someone forks Spotifeed and fixes it... and then it's just an arms race.

there used to be and it was great. Hoping someone fixes it someday.

Spotifeed used to be able to generate RSS feeds for Spotify podcasts, but Spotify broke this for obvious reasons.