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This is great, a lot of people don’t know RSS exists but would be technical enough to use them if pointed in the right direction.

Somewhat related, I built a small tool to scrape sites with no feeds and generate one: https://feedbridge.notmyhostna.me/

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Huh, interesting! How do you think your site compares to say, Feed43?

Haven’t heard of them before, I know there are some tools to generate feeds by selecting elements on the page and then the tool figures everything. One of the tools I tried didn’t work for the site I needed it for and so I just wrote it myself, mostly for fun.

Feed43 is based around pattern matching - it mostly assumes a well-structured HTML document with predictable tags, and it's that method for every site. You seem to have some sort of custom plugin architecture, I guess?

Exactly, mine is really only focused on sites that are either hard to scrape (login, blocking, not well formatted,...) right now. So either site you want to integrate requires a custom plugin. It's pretty niche but the repository can be found here in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge

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