[HN Gopher] Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors
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       Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors
        
       Author : thirdplace_
       Score  : 60 points
       Date   : 2023-07-14 20:23 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (rss-bridge.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (rss-bridge.org)
        
       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | I've wondered why people have tried all sorts of cumbersome ways
       | to splice metadata onto HTML like RDFa but never tried the
       | obvious approach of basing extraction rules on CSS selectors...
       | Often these work without the cooperation of the target site so
       | long as they use CSS the way it was supposed be used (e.g. not
       | tailwind, bootstrap, etc.)
        
         | kybernetikos wrote:
         | I quite like the microformats approach to this.
         | https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/microforma...
        
       | simonjgreen wrote:
       | This is very similar to how you can scrape data from web with
       | powerquery
        
       | skribanto wrote:
       | Getting 502 Bad Gateway
        
         | kalupa wrote:
         | yea, suffering from success ...
        
       | solardev wrote:
       | It ded.
       | 
       | Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20230714202418/https://rss-
       | bridg...
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       | Sample feed:
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20230308160413/https://rss-bridg...
        
         | crtasm wrote:
         | List of public instances: https://rss-bridge.github.io/rss-
         | bridge/General/Public_Hosts...
         | 
         | edit: but the few I tried did not have the CSS Selector Bridge
         | enabled so go with the original link or archive of it.
        
       | xnx wrote:
       | This is a great tool! Before I learned about nitter, this was my
       | primary way to follow people on Twitter. I love the idea of
       | trying to wrestle unsupported feeds (Twitter, Instagram, etc.)
       | into a standard/open format.
        
       | treyd wrote:
       | I wonder if this would work better / be more expressive with
       | XPATH-style selectors?
        
         | thirdplace_ wrote:
         | rss-bridge also has xpath-style bridge: https://rss-
         | bridge.org/bridge01/#bridge-XPathBridge
        
       | jesusofnazarath wrote:
       | [dead]
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Other services like this: https://www.fivefilters.org/feed-
       | creator/
        
       | jasonlotito wrote:
       | The lack of feed generation is why I so many of the latest blog
       | platforms are non-starters in my book. It boggles my mind.
       | Honestly, if you don't generate a feed of some sort, I really
       | can't take you seriously.
        
       | midasz wrote:
       | Does it work for websites that fetch content async? I've had
       | success with https://morss.it instead (which can also be
       | selfhosted)
        
       | CoBE10 wrote:
       | For me PolitePol is best because if doesn't limit the amount of
       | feeds and the free plan is pretty good: https://politepol.com
        
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