A 4 minute introduction to RSS

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  • fraidycat

    Follow blogs, wikis, YouTube channels, as well as accounts on Twitter, Instagram, etc. from a single page.

    If you're interested in furthering RSS (and Atom, JSON Feed) - one way to help this along is to continue extending it to bring it modern. For instance, I've documented an extension for adding temporary 'status' to the feed - useful for pinned posts or broadcasting that a livestream is beginning.

    https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/wiki/RSS-Atom-Exten...

    It feels like there is still a lot of room to extend these formats - part of the advantage to them is how easily they can be extended. The media enclosure extension is the reason they've been so useful for podcast subscriptions.

  • ALL-about-RSS

    A list of RSS related stuff: tools, services, communities and tutorials, etc.

    > Content of post is a link. No context, no summary, no single sentence...nothing.

    Run it through an RSS full article extractor:

    https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS#full-article-extra...

    Many feeds are useless without one, but tremendously useful with one.

    And if you don't like a website's RSS feed, make one yourself, formatted as you see fit:

    https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS#webpagehtml

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  • feedo

    An RSS/Atom feed reader that runs on your laptop or on almost any free hosting provider or server.

    Shameless plug of my own RSS reader side project: https://github.com/msurdi/feedo.

    It's not great nor complete, but is very simple and does the basic thing, it has no ads and there is no risk somebody will turn it off or push it in commercial ways.

    I built it about about a month ago over the weekend and haven't looked back to other popular services.

    If you're a developer, making an RSS reader you like seems like a very nice side project to try out new tools, frameworks, etc... more useful than a TODO list and also very simple to build.

  • progrssive

    A PWA for reading RSS feeds. It works offline!

  • ftr-site-config

    Site-specific article extraction rules to aid content extractors, feed readers, and 'read later' applications.

    If you're trying to build one yourself, have a look at the open source Readability code[1]. It was originally developed by Arc90 and is now used by Apple and Mozilla in their browser reader views. The code has been ported to a number of different languages.

    I work on a service called Full-Text RSS[2] that used a PHP port of Readability, coupled with site-specific extraction rules[3] to identify and extract article content from each feed item. It then produces a full-text version of the given feed. The idea is you subscribe to the full-text version in whichever feed reader you use and it will transparently give you full-text articles where you had partial content before.

    [1] https://github.com/mozilla/readability

    [2] https://www.fivefilters.org/full-text-rss/

    [3] https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config

  • readability

    A standalone version of the readability lib

    If you're trying to build one yourself, have a look at the open source Readability code[1]. It was originally developed by Arc90 and is now used by Apple and Mozilla in their browser reader views. The code has been ported to a number of different languages.

    I work on a service called Full-Text RSS[2] that used a PHP port of Readability, coupled with site-specific extraction rules[3] to identify and extract article content from each feed item. It then produces a full-text version of the given feed. The idea is you subscribe to the full-text version in whichever feed reader you use and it will transparently give you full-text articles where you had partial content before.

    [1] https://github.com/mozilla/readability

    [2] https://www.fivefilters.org/full-text-rss/

    [3] https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config

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  • hnrss

    Custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News

  • rssguard

    Feed reader (and podcast player) which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.

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