Feed Me Up Scotty
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feed reader tooling
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Feed Me Up Scotty
RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors
feed-me-up-scotty.vincenttunru.comHow HN took it
10 positive, 25 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 12 critical, out of 48 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 7 for, 8 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 against
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What people liked
Useful simple plumbing tool with good documentation
From 2 comments
I very simple plumbing tools like these.
spicybright on HNWoah this is cool! What you did with the setup documentation and the bit about automation was a nice touch, I wish more projects had this attention to the detail. Very simple,…
0des on HN
Objections
Scraping via CSS selectors is brittle and breaks on site changes
From 2 comments
Nice, but it's essentially scraping? Scraping is brittle. Some design changes and the whole thing breaks. Maintenance nightmare.
ricardo81 on HNNot sure for the downvote reason. Like I say scraping is brittle. I've done hundreds of scraping projects in the past. A recent one was taking 50 shopping sites looking for what…
ricardo81 on HN
Not novel, scraping has existed for decades
From 2 comments
Indeed, but the scraping workaround is brittle. We could make rules for all sites on the web that don't have a feed or API but it's not all that manageable. It also begs the…
ricardo81 on HNYes, if you're determined enough you can scrape anything. Just not sure what the new thing here is.
ricardo81 on HN
Requests
Fix relative links inside feed contents
From 1 comment
FYI, the links inside your feeds don't work, because they are relative, not absolute.
moehm on HN
Add a snippet or rendered preview of the XML
From 1 comment
I wish there's a snippet of what the XML looks like, even better if it's "rendered"...
bellyfullofbac on HN
Questions
How to get the GitHub Pages workflow running
From 1 comment
What do I do to get this working? So far I've forked feeds, edited feeds.toml, checked it out as a branch gh-pages, pushed the branch up to github. I can see the page at…
spacec0wb0y on HN
Alternatives named
RSSHub
From 1 comment
Related: https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub This perhaps has more flexibility and can deal with almost any website.
alanchen on HN
rss.app
From 1 comment
My friend is working on a quite simple feed generator from any website, social media: https://rss.app. Maybe helpful.
ianberdin on HN
Feed Creator (fivefilters)
From 1 comment
Very nice! I work on Feed Creator - https://createfeed.fivefilters.org - which is similar, although unlike yours doesn't use a headless browser, so selecting Javacript-inserted…
k1m on HN
HungryHippo
From 1 comment
It seems that RSS feed generators are a bit like static site generators: it's often thought to be easier to make your own than to learn to use someone else's. Anyway, here's…
DeLopSpot on HN