How common is it for websites to have RSS feeds, anymore?
That said, I personally only use rss for slow-updating sites (pretty much just for personal weblogs and the news/announcements for some projects).
I've written scrapers for some things that don't expose RSS to dump into the tt-rss database, too. Having the data sitting in a relational database makes it easy to interface with. (I wrote my own "podcatcher" since 2005-era tt-rss didn't have any such functionality and just use the tt-rss database as its back-end.)
Nice!
Yeah, when i am deciding if i wish to return to a website to read more of their stuff, the very first thing that i do is search for an rss/atom feed. If they lack such a feed, then chances are quite high that i won't return.