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Comment by happytoexplain | Hacker News Reader

Very nearly all of my web browser activity that isn't Googling things for work starts with my RSS feed. It's how I get 100% of my news, including Hacker News. It's how I monitor things I'm shopping for. It's how I consume podcasts, youtube, music blogs, and comics. My friends do the same. When people say RSS became unpopular, are they referring to consumers, producers, or both?

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This is exactly me as well.. I filter through a good 1K articles and posts a day in very little time using this method.

What are your workflows for consuming YT videos and podcasts from RSS? Do you have something that automatically downloads that content or do you just click through to their sites? I’ve been trying to set something up for the former but haven’t yet found anything that I like.

Check out rss-bridge

I used to have direct feeds from my YouTube subscriptions, but they either killed or moved that feature. This runs on the same $5 vm as my RSS feed reader and works great.

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

Also check out https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub, it's aggressively compatible with websites that refuse to do RSS, and has a large community that keeps it up to date

Combining rsstail and youtube-dl can get you that easily.

Honestly, I'm not sure who they're referring to when they say RSS became unpopular, or "is dead." I still use RSS every day and I'm just an ordinary person.

How do you monitor things you are shopping for via RSS?

Look up “camelcamelcamel”, for instance. I used to get RSS feeds from sites like that.

Same.

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