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Comment by ozarker | Hacker News Reader

I've been discovering different tools to make the content I consume available via RSS. Some of those tools:

nitter: Alternative Twitter frontend that provides RSS feeds

teddit: Alternative Reddit frontend that provides RSS feeds (Reddit itself still has RSS feeds, we'll see how that plays out though)

rss-bridge: Can generate feeds for a ton of different sites. I use it for Twitch feeds.

invidious: Alternative YouTube frontend that provides RSS feeds

It's been refreshing to subscribe to the feeds I want to see and not have "recommended" content stepping all over what I want to see. Recent trends make me worried some of these services are going to go away in the near future though.

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> rss-bridge: Can generate feeds for a ton of different sites. I use it for Twitch feeds.

A bit of a shameless self-promotion plug: rss-bridge is great but I wanted to do the same from a command line program sending the output to stdout and without running a dedicated local web server, so I wrote newslinkrss ( https://github.com/ittner/newslinkrss/ )

It allowed me to replace a bunch of dedicated scripts at the cost of some complex command lines. It works pretty well for people who prefer desktop news readers to web-based ones.

Feedback is welcome.

> invidious: Alternative YouTube frontend that provides RSS feeds

Youtube natively offers per-channel rss feeds.

They do, kinda.

You have to go looking for it. In my testing only provides the latest few videos, not the entire back catalog. But I have a naive understanding of the RSS protocol I didn't see how to get more because they didn't expose a "next" link for the RSS feed.

The only place I have ever seen a "next" link for an RSS feed is WordPress. Sort of a pagination thing you can do with the URL.

RSS isn't supposed to be an Archive, It's an activity feed. Best practice has providers trimming the XML file to the latest X items.

You can stylize and embed things like a next link in an RSS feed but that should just point you to yet another XML file and it's not part of the standard.

There is RFC 5005, Feed Paging and Archiving, which enables that, but feedreader support is practically nonexistent.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5005

You’re right It’s there but they don’t make it easy to get a feed. I also like having a single feed with new vids from every channel I’m subscribed to on invidious which I don’t think is possible on YouTube

I can see the appeal of having a full feed RSS so you don't subscribe in two places, But I don't login and only use the RSS feeds. I use TT-RSS and just do subfolders for my feeds. If I click the Youtube folder it displays all the youtube feeds in order but I still have the option to drill down per channel.

> I also like having a single feed with new vids from every channel I’m subscribed to on invidious which I don’t think is possible on YouTube

That seems contrary to the idea that your RSS reader should be the one place you control your subscriptions from.

Which is something of a general problem—an on-site list of subscriptions is certainly also useful in ways the reader can’t really replicate in a generic way, yet it’s in the user’s interest to be the only one in control of that list instead of involving the website in it.

I can’t think of a good way to deal with this.

the pupdates are a mess

Shout-out to the Livemarks / Foxish plugins which gives you RSS support on your Bookmarks toolbar. Still nothing better IMO for quickly browsing dozens of headlines across dozens of sites.

Firefox: https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/ Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/foxish-live-rss/nb...

Let's not forget https://hnrss.org for hacker news :)

Anyone know a way to pull email lists (eg mailman) via RSS feeds?

I just use https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

Best of both words. Allows me to go to the article and the comments.

Seems to feed the entire hn submissions firehose, and at least in my reader it doesn't let me click into the linked item from within my feed reader?

hnrss.org does both of those things, lets you subscribe to just the front page, and loads more besides - including replied to your own comments, which is how I was alerted to your posting of this.

"Kill the newsletter!" at https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ is one of my favorite tools that does exactly what you're asking for!

This. Is. Perfect. Thank you!

I have nitter, teddit, and piped setup similarly and it's game changing having it all available through RSS.

> rss-bridge: Can generate feeds for a ton of different sites. I use it for Twitch feeds.

Now that sounds handy. Extensible, too.

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