pipes VS RSS-Bridge

https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes can extract feeds from pages. Pattern recognizer logic when trying the UI is a bit simple, but you can also write selectors on your own. It could work for you.

I'm not sure I understand the need, but take a look at https://pipes.digital/

Merging feeds is one of the main use cases of my site pipes. It might be one of the site you stumbled upon and dismissed, but there is an AGPL licensed version you can self-host at https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes.

Great writeup, especially with all the workflow canvas screenshots. Makes me want to try out Node-RED.

From a few weeks ago on HN:

https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes

“pipes.digital is a spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes, a graphical interface to get data from the web and to manipulate it by connecting block”

These look like great tools.

I think calling these low-code / no-code frameworks is however quite misleading though, because there is actually code, it’s just inside the component! Code still has to be written.

One thing that these low-code / no-code frameworks do well is provide a structure that you can easily show visually.

This is particularity useful when you have to work with clients that aren’t that technical. It makes creating specifications much easier, which can be reviewed and revised before embarking on a big development effort.

> make the calendar available via rss.

I've thought a lot about ICS/RSS combinations[0], and my current stance is that while they achieve similar things in some cases, RSS is meant for things that happened in the past (items in the future may or may not show in your client), and calendars are meant for future events. This incompatibility makes it hard to do RSS feeds for events, unless you use event-publication-date, which has its own issues.

I've instead been working on custom calendars for sites I care about.[1] is one such attempt from someone else, but I've been focusing on simpler options[2]

There's also the problem that both Android and Windows are horrible with webcal (iOS/MacOS/Linux work decently well), making "subscribable web calendars" out of reach of most Android users, unless the understand the terrible UX that these platforms offer.

[0]: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/issues/1351

[1]: https://github.com/simon816/ical-bridge

[2]: https://captnemo.in/blr-habba/

rss bridge [1] seems to do the same, but it's not coupled to any rss reader

[1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

There's also RSS-Bridge: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

"The RSS feed for websites missing it"

That is cool for a local feed. Have you tried it on a server?

I am able to get a lot of generally unavailable feeds using https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge running on my server. Perhaps this code could be someday brought in as a catch-all last resort.

Since everything worked as intended, I created a pull request to the RSS-Bridge repository and after a few hours my code was merged and now every public server will have a new Ko-Fi bridge for everyone to use. And since this is something I will use for myself, I will make sure to maintain it as long as possible.

I use RSS Bridge although it's unfortunate that I have to. Plus in the past week or two spam has been getting through into it which is lovely.

RSS-Bridge has a Google search adapter. You can also fake it with Searx (which offers RSS feeds of search results).