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Might be useful to some: i realized some time ago (yeah it took me a while...) that most websites that don't have a RSS feed do have a Facebook page. So now i just add those Facebook pages as RSS feeds in my reader and i can follow with RSS those websites that don't have a RSS feed. At least Facebook is useful now.... :-)

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How do you do this? I did a bit of research and it looks like FB have deprecated their old RSS feeds based on page `id`.

well i guess there are other ways but as i built a RSS reader, i've added this feature. But you're right they deprecated the api, so it only works for public pages, and not people's profiles.

Ok, so you use their JSON API with an FB app token?

well you don't need to login to access these pages, they are public, i ended up doing some html parsing :-)

Makes sense

rss-bridge supports facebook profiles/pages[0].

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

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