I'm new to rss, I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to fetch all old articles from a website not just the latest 10 or 20. Is there a way to do this? Or this something that websites control? And if so, does this mean that fetched articles will be deleted after website publishes new ones?

Note: It's working again

All of my YouTube subscriptions are suddenly broken. Did YouTube just change the URL format, or did they break/kill RSS feeds entirely? Anyone know what's going on?

For those who don't know, YouTube used to provide RSS feeds for videos at URLs like:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=%24channelId

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/48831918

I have multiple .opml files (that list rss feeds I subscribe to in xml i.g.) with different contents on different devices. How can I merge them without duplicates? Are there tools for this?

I work in IT (shocking, I know) so I followed a few tech places like HackerNews.

I also really like XKCD so I followed Randall’s comic too.

Feeeed has a “popular” tab but it seems to be inundated with subreddits.

Hey all,

So I've been wanting to start using RSS recently. I've seen a lot of recommendations for using it to help curate what I'm interested in instead of what algorithms want me to engage with. But maybe I'm thinking of it wrong.

My understanding of RSS was that I find one of the many different RSS readers that I like, currently I'm using Akregator on Linux, then start subscribing to individual sites and sources. The idea being that I can go to one place and read everything I'm interested in.

But I can count on one hand, out of the 165 feeds I've subscribed to so far, the number that actually load the full article contents and images. Nearly every single one of them gives me a paragraph and a "Complete this story" or a "View full story here" or some other phrase.

If I load the full page inside the RSS app, I get all the nagware about signing up, give me cookies, just general obtrusive ads, blah blah blah. Obviously it's using an internal web engine and not my actual browser with my ad blockers and VPN extension and stuff. So instead I just double-click the RSS link and it opens in my normal browser and I read it there.

So, that gets down to the crux of my question...at this point, what's the difference between me just bookmarking the sites that I want and then just going there? If RSS only loads a paragraph anyways, what's the point in using it?

Now I do understand that this isn't RSS's fault as a protocol, it's how these sites are choosing to use it. I imagine they are just trying to get people to click to their site for views and whatnot but still...at least how I want to use it, it kinda defeats the purpose of RSS.

Am I missing something or is this something the community has been dealing with for a while now?

In your opinion, what are the professions that do the most monitoring/research on the internet and that would have a great interest in using RSS feeds?

Use thunderbird as a rss feed reader? Or do you dislike thunderbird and prefer others because of certain features?

Meet RSS

Perhaps you’ve heard of RSS. It stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and it allows websites like blogs, newsletters, and news sites to make their content available in “feeds” for outside services called “RSS readers” or “feed readers”. Far from being the new hotness attracting glitzy feature stories in tech media or billions in venture funding, RSS has been around for 25 years.

Google Reader was once the most popular RSS reader, and many (including me) were heartbroken by its shutdown in 2013. A lot of people moved to centralized microblogging services like Twitter and stopped reading blogs. But despite the loss of Reader, RSS continued on, and many contemporary tools do similar — even better — jobs than the decade-old service. In fact, you’ve almost certainly been using RSS without even knowing it, because the entire podcast industry runs on it.

Many, if not most, websites publish an RSS feed. Whereas you can only follow a Twitter user on Twitter or a Substack writer in the Substack app, you can follow any website with an RSS feed in a feed reader. When you open it, all your reading is neatly waiting for you in one place, like a morning newspaper. And RSS is more of a one-way street from a privacy perspective, pushing writing out to you with less of your data flowing back to the publisher.

I’ve been heavily using RSS for over a decade, and it’s a travesty more people aren’t familiar with it. Here’s how to join me in the brave new (old) world of RSS:

Choose an RSS reader

Many good free and paid RSS readers exist, as web-based, desktop, or mobile apps. I personally use and like Inoreader. I pay for a subscription, but it has a generous free tier. I’ve also heard good things about NewsBlur and, for Apple users, NetNewsWire. I no longer recommend Feedly. There are also RSS browser add-ons, like Feeder and SlickRSS.

It seems some lights are on in the YouTube RSS department. Shorts in the feed now link to https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ID rather than the regular video player.

So it is nice that you can filter them, but unfortunately that you get the shitter video player now. But I think overall I'm happy.

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Windows 10

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Started first with Thunderbird (W10):

-No configuration options

-No full text option

-Dropped

Then discovered the Raven Reader:

-Best interface

-No longer maintained

-No full text feature

-Dropped

Next, I found RSSGuard:

-Does Not Provides the "full text" feature for offline reading

-Dropped

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Android

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I started with FocusReader:

-Full text feature, which is a must for me

-Many other features

-Regularly maintained

-Still the best Android option for me for now (I wish any windows RSS Feeder be like this)

Also discovered the RSS Reader feature of a podcast player (PodcastRepublic):

-Always provides the "full text" function which is a must for me

-Not Enough options to configure the RSS Reader or improvement and or add features at all

• Been using it primarily as a podcast player, with the RSS Reader, as a bonus

-I wish the RSS Reader configuration could be improved to accommodate additional settings and new features added

YOUR ideal RSS Readers ? and why?

Like many, I prefer subscribing to RSS feeds instead of being force-fed by an algorithm. However, sometimes I wish I could comment and/or chat with others about the contents of specific articles in the feed.

I know it's possible to post a link to the article in a link aggregator like Lemmy and have a discussion, but that takes effort to post links and not every article in a feed would be submitted. It also doesn't curate the discussion to only the feeds a user is interested in.

So, my idea is that in a feed, tapping/clicking on the article would show comments people have left and allow the reader to make their own comments/replies. The comments could also be available in a read-only state via api or their own RSS feed, so authors could easily embed them.

I did a little searching and couldn't find anything like this. If this seems useful to anybody else, I think I'd like to write it. So... thoughts?

Handy News Reader

free and open-source (FOSS), so you can snag it from F-Droid . It’s loaded with many features

Features:

-full articles at hand

-convenient reading: switching articles by volume buttons or swipe, Tap Zones, remembering the position of reading per article,

-important articles' notification: You will no longer miss anything

-"Read It Later": You can quickly flick through articles

-"Remove When Finished" - once You've finished such an article - it may be automatically removed from the 'Favorites' (='Read It Later') set,

-ready to go off-line

-save the bandwidth: go on-line only for new articles

-gesture-friendly

-the left edge of the screen to adjust text brightness,

-user-friendly: care about Your eyes with a dark theme, adjust text size, color

-neat ideas: non-hyperlinked article headers

-scrolling article pages by 90% of their height can make reading less confusing

-customizable: from Tap Zones' size to hyperlinks' color and underlining & a bunch of details

-advanced features: auto-backup (export/import to/from an .opml format), providing content out of non-RSS websites

https://github.com/yanus171/Handy-News-Reader/releases

https://handynewsreader.blogspot.com/

Right now I use Feeder, but I want to add larger feeds like HackerNews or r/comics and if I do that then my feed gets overwhelmed with those much more frequently updated feeds.

I'd love an (Android) app with the ability to let the other feeds intermingle near the top of the sort with the larger feeds

Kind of a "sort my chronological per feed"

We’re excited to introduce Inoreader Intelligence, a set of AI-powered features designed to help you process information faster and work with content more efficiently!

the blog post

Started with RSS recently, and I've been using Feeder, but UI wasn't vibing with me so I wanted to explore other options

One that stood out was Tiny Tiny RSS, but I noticed that it's self-hosted

Which made me wonder, what are the other feed apps doing? I assumed no back end would be necessary since I can provide the link to the RSS XML

So what kinds of things are the servers doing?

Or am I misinformed and Tiny Tiny RSS is self-hosted because it is doing something beyond the usual feed readers

Current YouTube RSS Feeds leave much to be desired, so we're improving them

Feels like there’s more and more podcasts going on YouTube and some have chapters only there, not in their actual podcast feeds. I made a tiny iOS App that works similar to Castro, only for YouTube videos.

It's free and open source. I'm happy to get any feedback or to hear from people who find it as useful as I do.

You can get it here: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6477287463

Features

• Queue & Inbox triaging (can be custom per channel)
• Custom playback speed per channel
• (pre-select) chapters
• Picture-in-Picture & background audio
• & more

It’s not perfect and definitely not a full podcast player replacement, but it could be useful as an add on in some cases. At the very least people who enjoy Castro might find it useful to have something similar for YouTube videos.

The Vivaldi web browser adds a new level of customization to its RSS feed subscription feature

So, I'm tentative to announce this project, as the server it's running on is a bit of a potato which will probably fall over pretty quick if it gains any traction, but...

Introducing RSS Temple!

If you're interested in a free RSS reader which attempts to mimic some of the more useful features of the big players (Feedly and Google Reader, in particular), including full-text search, hotkey navigation, small footprint interface, and sharing to both Lemmy and Mastodon (among others), I would love if you gave RSS Temple a try.

I've been working on this project for ~7 years now, and I alone cannot find any more bugs or usability issues, so I hope it's ready for the community to see. Any feedback is appreciated!

The code is open at:

https://github.com/murrple-1/rss_temple (server, Python)

https://github.com/murrple-1/rss_temple_ui (landing page and web app, Angular and EleventyJS)

https://github.com/murrple-1/ansible-collection-rss-temple (Ansible scripts to deploy one's own instance)

I am familiar with RSS Bridge, but I recently came across RSSHub, and I'm not sure exactly what it does differently than RSS Bridge. Would someone be able to compare the two, or explain why you would use one over the other?

Is there any universal or newsboat specific way to do this? The RSS feed itself doesn't even hint at it being a short, so probably not.