Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed

Re:Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed by crazygringo on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:07PM (#45307858)

I love this.

Has anyone tested to see if it works with Blogtrottr which will email you whenever there's a new item in an RSS feed?

Just since this doesn't seem like it even includes a date field in the RSS? And of course no guid. So I'm wondering how compatible it winds up being.

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Re:Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed by kevincox on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:17PM (#45307940)

Dates shouldn't matter. The feed has ID elements which is what identify entries. Atom has no guid element. So I would expect this to work with any reader.

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Re:Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed by edoceo on Saturday September 20, 2025 @12:24AM (#45310347)

I wish they had concrete, accurate id and created_at. IIRC these attributes are fixed in AT.

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Re:Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed by crazygringo on Saturday September 20, 2025 @07:37AM (#45312430)

But is this producing ID elements? And if so, based on what, since they don't seem to be coming from any CSS selectors? That's my question.

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Re:Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed by kevincox on Saturday September 20, 2025 @07:41AM (#45312458)

It seems to use the link as the ID based on clicking a few examples on the site. An ok option for this type of thing.

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