Living in Syndication – Generate RSS feeds for sites that don't have them

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https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/wiki/Public-hosts

See also: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge (already supports around 280 websites)

I use rss-bridge but I notice a lot of the bridges don't work anymore and/or aren't maintained very well. (Especially Facebook / Instagram)

I wish it used a different language than PHP so I could contribute.

That's my main criticism for all this and similar projects. I think we as rss entousiasts should invest our time in a better way than patching rules against a running target. Who knows if those big sites break their markup intentionally just to keep us locked out and absorbed. Support the automated approch [0] it's JavaScript.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

Looks very interesting. I dig the automation part of it.

I appreciate the effort and love that people still invest time in RSS. I think that the hassle of manually defining and patching rules is n unnecessary burden. I tried to automate this task [0]. Sure the manual way might give you better feed entries, initially, but the maintenance is huge and ongoing. IMHO we should try to solve this problem in a more general way and by automation. With a post processing step, to generate a full feed, this solution would be unbeatable and with zero manual maintenance.

[1] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

I suspect the developer is into bird watching.

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