Another self-hosted RSS feeder reader I like to recommend is: https://miniflux.app/
I use it every day to sync between my devices via the Fever API it supports and it works great for years already.
Hmm... giving newsboat a try. A web solution would be better. As its kinda clunky to switch between a terminal and the web.
I don't want to host something myself.
If I have to, I would just make a service that reads and re-outputs the feed with appropriate cors headers so I can style it client side.
Maybe the author reads this and would consider adding the cors headers?
Re:Hacker News RSS Feeds
by Grumbledour on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:18AM
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I am not sure I get the benefit of looking just at one rss feed at a time.
But that said, for the longest time, firefox did just style the feed directly and I am still sad they removed this. Maybe there is a browser plugin which just adds the style back?
Re:Hacker News RSS Feeds
by JetSpiegel on Saturday July 11, 2020 @01:14PM
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> Maybe there is a browser plugin which just adds the style back?
https://code.guido-berhoerster.org/addons/firefox-addons/fee...
A browser plugin is a pretty heavy weapon. It gives a lot of power over your browsing to whoever controls it. So I would not use one just to read rss feeds.
Greasemonkey is really great to customize websites for your [weird] usage pattern. (Tampermonkey[0] works in Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Opera Next, and Firefox)
XHR is a pretty decent api that ignores CORS[1]
GM.xmlHttpRequest({
method: "GET",
url: "http://www.example.com/",
onload: function(response){alert(response.responseText)}
});
The only variants are popular, because you get the same experience from every device to sync subscribed feeds, read/unread counts etc.
You could host such a service yourself with something like tinytinyrss for example[0].
But you can just as well use any feed reader available for your platform of choice. Thunderbird for example has provided this feature for ages besides email.
They do of course also exist as terminal applications. One example would be newsboat[1].
[0] https://tt-rss.org/ [1] https://newsboat.org/