Show HN: Extract RSS feed from almost anything
Howdy! RSSfeedASAP scratches my own itch. I run a regional podcasting directory which gets dozens of messy submission for podcasts. Often they don't even include an xml file and me being a good samaritan I sometimes do the manual work and find it myself. I got tired of that manual work and decided to build a microapp.
RSSfeedASAP is this app and I decided to release it in case someone else finds any use in it.
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I've been using RSSPreview addon on Firefox for a couple years to perform this, but I really see the value of a Web service to do this anywhere. Kudos!
The main focus was on accessing podcast RSS feeds, which is why the initial efforts were concentrated on these platforms. However, plans are in place to expand support to other platforms and different types of content based on user demand.
May I ask what purpose you are using the RSSPreview addon for?
Mostly, to have an RSS button in the navigation bar, but I found it useful when checking different feeds for the same page. For instance, I've recently started following some software projects on GitHub, some of which I like to follow by release, while some I like to follow by commit, for example. The preview let me see what each feed shows, and get a feel on the frequency of "news" for each feed.
Hope this can help you, I'm no podcast listener so can't really give you a hint on which podcast-related features I would look for in a news feed.
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230326224112/https://feed43.co...
https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html-markup-20120329/syntax.ht...
I hereby humbly apologise for daring to participate in the comments section of Hacker News despite my autism. Will not happen again.
(But then where are "people like me" supposed to go?).
"Dude", I could, but then a valid follow-up would have been something like "why not?", and I think that I have sufficiently covered this.
> There are plenty of reasons for containerization
"Bro", I understand that containerization would make a small amount of sense under the following circumstances:
- The software in question was a giant package with a quadrillion dependencies which all interfere with each other. rssparser.lisp is not.
- The software in question will need to be deployed on a metric ton of very different machines. rssparser.lisp can easily be deployed without this additional layer.
> it seems like engaging in any sort of conversation with you is pointless.
You haven't even tried yet. I'm open for any kind of discussion, but it would probably help both sides if the subject was "how to improve the software", don't you think?
Someone asked a simple question.
You replied with a comment that ended like so "into a fucking Docker container?"
As a third party here (and not the person you asked), it's fairly easy to assume that someone who pretends to be "Looking forward to feedback" and then responds with "fucking" and being rude is really just trolling here and not interested in reasonable and adult conversations.
At the very least, you know you were wrong, because you've been editing your comments to make it seem less aggressive.
My honest suggestion: apologize, and get offline. There is no reason to be acting like this.
Secondly, after this would be obviously installed for checking and testing functionality for meeting my personal the requirements, it is much more easy to uninstall all dependencies by stopping and removing a container then manually removing all packages in case of not needing it.
Thirdly, a service like that would be installed on my home server, which separates the OS installation and other extra services by having all extra services inside docker containers keeping the OS "clean".
SBCL is a package on most Linux distributions, Quicklisp is a package manager for SBCL: https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/#installation
https://www.freshrss.org
"The RSS feed for websites missing it"
[1] Show HN: RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27739568
Cool little project.
Comes as a bookmarklet and it will not only find a page's feed, it will also display it nicely directly.
Demo on Verge's feed: https://feedreader.xyz/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2... (you just visit the site, hit the bookmarklet & there you go)
This was primarily built after realizing that the official Google RSS plugin for Chrome was never gonna be updated and was "stuck" to that annoying layout while displaying a page's feed.
* Shameless plug * Our feed generator can detect existing RSS feeds, and combines a scraper and data transformer to help create custom RSS feeds for any public webpage.
https://newsloth.com/product/feed-builder