Wouldn’t it be possible to create a third-party site scraper that could generate custom RSS feeds independently of the company?
About the only barrier would be paywalls, IMO.
About the only barrier would be paywalls, IMO.
You won't get the article content but it'll give you enough information to find out if you're interested in the article and then read it on their site.
I personally have RSS-Bridge running on my local webserver, and use it for Twitter feeds, Instagram, Facebook, etc.
Anecdotal evidence: I work in a tour operator and we publish our products on tripadvisor and getyourguide which are two very popular places to advertise these products and that provide an extranet to suppliers where they can login to create and manage products, availability, etc. A few years ago before they had developed APIs or had only private APIs for the "big guys" and wouldn't really pay any attention to small shops' requests, I managed to use Puppeteer [0] [1] (a node.js library to manage headless Chrome) to dynamically update our products into their extranet. It's very powerful and with some tinkering you can automate pretty much any behavior, including authentication and xhr interactions inside their platform (although this will require a bit of studying their requests using the browsers developer tools). It's a great tool.
[0] https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer
[1] https://pptr.dev