[HN Gopher] Deep dive into finding RSS feeds
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Deep dive into finding RSS feeds
Author : domysee
Score : 49 points
Date : 2024-12-06 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| superkuh wrote:
| I generally try: /rss, /feed, /index.xml, /rss.xml, /feed.xml,
| etc. And at various root or /directory/* locations.
| https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/feed-urls/ is a good article
| with statistics on naming.
|
| I've been adding to my feeds.opml since reddit started dying in
| ~2015 and now I'm up to around ~1700 feeds and mostly independent
| from aggregators; though I still collect new feeds from
| HN/IRC/etc. Mostly I just always make a point to look for them
| whenever I read something cool on the web.
| ulrischa wrote:
| Would be nice if it is implmented in freshrss
| quaintdev wrote:
| I think miniflux can do this. I just give it website address
| and it almost always finds rss feeds
| 1123581321 wrote:
| It'd be neat for readers to seamlessly integrate with a scraper,
| either self-hosted or commercial, if no feed is found. I believe
| Inoreader allows scraping a few sites depending on the plan
| level; most reader services don't.
| HumblyTossed wrote:
| Back when I was young, websites had this icon you could click
| that would take you straight to their RSS feed. You young whipper
| snappers have gone an fucked that up. Actually, I think it was
| Google's fault. When they killed their RSS reader people
| pronounced RSS dead so people just stopped publishing RSS feeds
| or just didn't link to them.
|
| * Yes, I know the article talks about the RSS icon, i'm just
| soapboxing.
| AndrewStephens wrote:
| Even better, for a few months the browsers themselves would
| highlight RSS feeds and allow you subscribe right in the
| browser. It was too good to last.
|
| RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale
| that well by itself. If 2 million people subscribe to your feed
| and try to update it once an hour, that is 48 million requests
| a day just for RSS.
|
| What does work well (and how things have evolved) is to have a
| service that polls RSS on behalf of its users. This was the
| beauty of Google Reader but plenty of replacements exist.
| rodary wrote:
| > Even better, for a few months the browsers themselves would
| highlight RSS feeds and allow you subscribe right in the
| browser. It was too good to last.
|
| Vivaldi browser still does that.
| sodality2 wrote:
| Tried out the feed finder on my blog again and I have another bug
| to report - it seems the URLs on the page can cause a crash
| within the web app! my blog (at matthew.science) uses Zola SSG,
| and it seems the URLs are formatted with a preceding //: '<a
| href="//matthew.science/posts/riscv/">Basics of the RISC-V
| ISA</a>'
|
| This causes the following error: TypeError: URL constructor:
| //matthew.science/posts/riscv/ is not a valid URL.
| jdougan wrote:
| Theoretically, I think that should work. It (At least it used
| to be) specified that //site/some/path should assume the uri
| protocol of the current context. So if it was a link on an http
| page, it should assume http, same with ftp and https etc. It
| should work sorta like how a leading slash assumes the current
| site context.
|
| This was back before the Web became the one true way and is the
| reason it uses 2 slashes, to distinguish protocol local from
| site local.
| camel-cdr wrote:
| This is useful, I set up RSS on my website yesterday.
|
| Turns out the feed finder couldn't find the feeds even though
| I've linked to them using clickable RSS icons.
|
| I didn't know about the autodiscovery feature so I'll add that
| now.
| zenlot wrote:
| Came here through RSS link from miniflux, running on nvidia
| jetson.
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