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I love RSS feeds.

You can convert Twitter to RSS: http://twitrss.me

Websites that don't have RSS: https://feedity.com/

Email to RSS: https://zapier.com

Hackernews RSS:http://hnrss.org/newest?points=300

You can even use RSS for finding a job: https://www.indeed.ca/jobs?q=millwright&l=Toronto,+ON&sort=d...

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I work on a project which creates RSS feeds for sites which don't offer their own: Feed Creator - http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/

And one which converts partial feeds into full-text feeds: https://fivefilters.org/content-only/

Cool project, I was searching for something like this a while ago and then tried to build something similar. It's not as cool and full featured as yours though; you have to write your own plugins for each site. It was still fun to build though.

https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge

I came across your project a while ago. I was actually trying to search for it today to post a link to it in reply to another comment. I only remembered the 'bridge' part and assumed it was in PHP, so my search didn't bring it up. :)

I use a modified Scrape ‘N Feed to scrape the sites I need without RSS. With this I can go another level deeper and scrape the entire article and return that back to the feed instead of just getting the snippet.

https://www.crummy.com/software/ScrapeNFeed/

Instead of sending your Twitter followers to a random cloud service (and getting it rate-limited), run your own RSS-Bridge to generate RSS from sites that don't have them, like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. If you use it yourself and some friends, rate limiting is not a problem.

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/

For HN, you can run that very same codebase from https://hnrss.org: https://github.com/edavis/go-hnrss

> You can convert Twitter to RSS: http://twitrss.me

From that link:

> 2018-10-17: Twitter are rate limiting requests from TwitRSS.me, meaning it is effectively broken until I can think of a way round it. You can still run your own instance

>feedity

I used this before, but its delay is just too much for anything that requires timeliness.

The free tier of feed43 is a little bit better I think (still have hours delay sometimes..)

Are you aware of an open source/non-commercial email to RSS solution?

No. But Zapier is free for limited applications.

But yes, wish TinyTinyRSS would offer all this functionality. Other RSS readers might be better, but I always return to TinyTinyRSS.

An open, distributed web demands open source tooling. I can appreciate benevolent corporations (Zapier goes above and beyond for their users, and is generous with their free plan), but nothing lasts forever; open source code once public can always be maintained and built upon further.

https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur is open source, commercial.

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