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Comment by TekMol | Hacker News Reader

Looks pretty useful. Not sure how to use it though.

The best way would be if I could make a little html page that fetches and renders them. But they do not provide the appropriate cors headers so that fails:

https://jsfiddle.net/nmvhuf4e/

So one would have to fetch them serverside and send it back to the frontend to read it.

Is there a rss reader which you can use without logging in? I don't keep cookies around, so logging in every time I want to look at one of these feeds would by annoying.

Ideally it would offer to put in the feed via a url like this:

coolreader.com/?url=hnrss.org/frontpage&fields=title,link

And then shows one row for each entry with title and link.

Or maybe there is a command line tool which will do this for the terminal?

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My personal preference has always been receiving RSS updates as emails. I have a random server I run rss2email on, it has a list of feeds and generates an email every time a new item is posted.

That way I get local copies I can search (via my mailbox), and don't have to worry about maintaining state of all the feeds when I move computer. (i.e. Client on computer one might regard some feeds as new/unseen, even though I read them on my mobile.)

https://github.com/skx/rss2email

Traditionally, RSS Readers are programs run on your computer and thus require no login.

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/

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?

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?

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)}
  });

[0] - https://www.tampermonkey.net/ [1] - https://wiki.greasespot.net/GM.xmlHttpRequest

> Maybe there is a browser plugin which just adds the style back?

https://code.guido-berhoerster.org/addons/firefox-addons/fee...

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.

I discovered https://fraidyc.at/ and I'm using this since.

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