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Comment by smbv | Hacker News Reader

As a big fan of RSS (I read HN through hnrss[0]), this is wonderful. It seems to be a nice catch-all for whatever websites rss-bridge doesn't support.

If any of you are looking into RSS, check out FreshRSS[2] (an RSS aggregator). A mobile client I especially like is NetNewsWire[3] (for Apple products only, but is imo amazing)

[0] https://hnrss.github.io/

[1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

[2] https://www.freshrss.org/

[3] https://netnewswire.com/

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To elaborate on this, RSS-Bridge maintains custom extraction rules for many sites [1], but RSS-proxy attempts to do that for any site using some pretty nifty logic [2]. I tried it on a few pages and it seems to do its job accurately, if the HTML is good enough.

Semantic HTML5 can be so helpful, especially in regards to tools like this one, or crawlers, or generally accessibility-wise. Unfortunately, its syntax is not enforced by browsers (for good reasons), so many developers never leverage it - and we end up with many custom-built sites falling back to <div>s everywhere, JS click handlers on non-interactive elements etc. I really wish modern framework docs and guides would more strongly hint to accessibility concerns.

[1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/tree/master/bridges [2] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy/blob/master/packages/cor...

Thanks! RSSHub is another option we could add to the mix https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub.

Also, all projects mentioned on this thread can be tracked and easily compared on LibHunt https://www.libhunt.com/posts/500676-rss-proxy-create-an-rss...

Netnewawire looks great! Any similar recommendations for Android ?

Seconding NetNewsWire. A recent version added iCloud sync so your feeds and unread statuses sync across the desktop and mobile version. Somehow it's free.

Ah, I like FreshRSS, based on what I can see from it. It's written in PHP and free.

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