What are /r/rss' favorite Products & Services?

From 3.5 billion Reddit comments

You can check out www.nooshub.com (disclaimer: I created it...)

It takes all the news in your feeds and finds similar articles. Turns out that important news are covered by all the different news outlets, and these news are then presented as top news. And there is also a special page called "nutshell", where only top news of all your pages are presented.

For example two current top news on the "International News" page would be "Nobel Peace Price" and "Instagram down again", on "Technology" it is "Chrome Attempts to Resurrect RSS" (coincidence), "Nintendo Switch", and also "Instagram down"...

I don't have iOS but if I was trying to do this I would use the free desktop software Calibre to generate an ebook of the RSS. This is one of its basic functions. Then you can open it in any ebook reader you like.

However Calibre is a whole pot of soup to learn. Unless you are the kind of person who like to learn strange software for fun, I'd advise you to exhaust other possibilities first.

Actually you know what, you could try searching through chrome and firefox extensions to see if there is something that will do this in browser. I have an extension called EpubPress - Read the web offline that generates ebooks from websites. It depends how long the blog is whether this would be helpful.

There's nothing magical about it - ultimately you're pulling a file from a server, e.g., https://xkcd.com/atom.xml - you're getting that atom.xml file and it's trivial to log the ip.

e.g., See:

https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_geoip_module.html

So it would be easy for a podcast enthusiast to get the (not precise) locations of his listeners. When I hear a podcaster bragging about so many listeners around the world I get the impression it's paying listeners and info would be from payment information. If you're concerned about it, use a vpn. If you're paranoid about it, idk, fetch all your podcasts after hijacking someone's session at a starbucks parked 5 blocks away with a panel antenna and make sure to use a cheap sbc burner you only use once and can burn after using.

Shameless plug. Try BazQux Reader. It supports Twitter and Instagram directly (as well as FB/G+/VK). So you could read them in fine format (no giant subjects duplicating message text, user avatars, videos and so on). It's paid reader though.

The problem is that Facebook really doesn't want you to access their content in an unsanctioned way (i.e. in a way they can't track you).

So the API is heavily restricted meaning that a developer can't offer this to large amount of people before getting rate limited, leaving just low volume, paid services.

Those that skip the API and just use web scraping get captcha'd to death after a certain threshold, again precluding wide use unless they also spend a lot of effort getting new, unthrottled IPs.

So you have to run the scraper yourself: RSS-Bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

Or use Feedbro: https://nodetics.com/feedbro/ - an RSS reader that runs as a browser extension (for Firefox, Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers) that also supports displaying Facebook pages like RSS feeds. This one doesn't give you an RSS link you can use in other readers, but if you don't have the knowledge to use RSS-Bridge (which does exactly what you're asking for) at least it's something.

I use a self hosted instance of RSSHub Twitter's search operators are also very useful.

I use it follow specific accounts & search terms.

I'm not 100% sure how your idea would work. I'd look into filtering to links posted though.

Seems Google News offers it.

1. Make sure region is set to U.S. on the top.
   
2. Click "Personalize" button on the right.
   
3. Under category list find small link "Advanced". Click it.
   
4. Find search bar which says "Add a local section" (or Ctrl+F "zip")
   
5. After that it will generate news list for u. Find the small link "RSS" on the bottom to get it.
   

Or direct template: http://news.google.com/news?geo=INSERT_ZIPCODE_HERE&output=rss

I always recommend https://www.pipes.digital/ because it has so many options. Might be overkill for you but it is free and helps you learn how to make RSS do what you want. You can look through their examples for something like you’re after and plug-in your own search.

Yes, RSS Guard supports dedupliction across feeds and even across accounts with its article filtering feature. You should take a look at isDuplicateWithAttribute function which allows you tak check if any message with the URL/etc is already stored from any feed/account and reject any subsequent messages.

https://feedbin.com/blog/2018/01/11/feedbin-is-the-best-way-to-read-twitter/

I'm happy with what Feedbin does. I've also used RSS Bridge with Tiny Tiny RSS.

This is that thing.

Many of the good RSS apps on Android are tied to a service. Feedly, Inoreader, etc. Many of the apps that could be used with independent services just die on Android.

If you want to not pay (which is a legitimate thing... no hate here) you can self-host an RSS service, but even then, you need an app, or a service with a web interface that won't break your phone.

I use Feedbin. I don't mind paying. I'd rather not mess around, and I want to use RSS on multiple devices and operating systems. It's simple UI and powerful filters get it done for me, even when I'm on Android.

https://feedbin.com/apps?filter=android

​

iOS tends to be a bigger UI playground.

I think feedbin had a public discussion about their implementation of an image proxy... and I believe source code is available. Maybe a review of the specifics would indicate their expectation.

https://feedbin.com/blog/2018/09/11/private-by-default/

Inoreader

https://www.inoreader.com/blog/2019/11/new-feature-sort-by-magic-and-article-popularity-indicators.html

PS The icons are visible to everyone - the "sort by magic΅ unfortunately requires the pro plan.

I posted one solution using Feed Creator earlier today in the Craigslist subreddit. Might help you too.

Merge Feeds by FiveFilters works for me: http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/index-mergefeeds.php

An alternative is the channel feature from FeedRinse. Bear in mind that the filtering feature is bugged, it occasionally lets all items through, that's why I stopped using it. Merging (channel feature) works just fine though, if that's all you need.

Facebook's algorithm is problematic. Say you follow some pages but it arbitrarily decides some updates are not important and you end up missing them. So what's the point of following things through Facebook if it wont reliably work?

With classic RSS you have the peace of mind that what you see is actually what is out there, complete, and not (significantly) delayed. Which you can then read (or not) at your own pace.

Another problem is that the algorithm is a revenue generator for Facebook, they want page owners to pay if their want their updates to actually reach their whole like list. This should tell you the intention behind this this feature - it's not a benefit to the end user.

>Or how do you work with too much information in your rss feed?

• Pruning your subscription list.
  Every once in a while I do a little cleaning and and unsubscribe from high volume or high noise to signal feeds.
  If 90% of the items you scroll past don't interest you it's time to find another source that focuses on the exact niche you want.
• Use a dedicated "High Volume" folder.
  This way those feeds don't get in the way of reading everything else, you can give them attention only when you have extra free time. Depending on what RSS reader you use it also makes it easier to mark them as read in one click.
• Filter feeds based on a topic/keyword.
  Inoreader has this feature built in but you can also use external service like Feed Rinse and Five Filters. Wordpress based sites create feeds for each tag and author so you can also use those. Some sites have feeds for keyword searches.

I haven't had any success with userscripts or websites, maybe my browser is too old? But I found a workaround to clean the Google Takeout subscriptions.json file using an Invido.us instance. You might have to try a couple different ones because some throw an error while processing many subscriptions. Get the Google Takeout file; register at an inviduos instance (no need to use personal info) and then head to subscriptions>manage subscriptions>import/export and select Import Youtube Subscriptions. Point it to the google json file and submit. After it imports, you can then export as a regular opml/xml file and use anywhere else. You can also nuke your inviduos account before login out if you don't plan to use it again. You can get a single rss url with all the updates or get individual channels, etc. But given these are public instances, they don't update immediately and they often come and go. But if you selfhost, that a different story.

I can't speak to all of your concerns, but for 2&3 you should consider looking at RSS Bridge and Huginn. Properly configured these tools can act as a kind of pocket knife for feeds.

Here's the rss reader I've been working on:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eliza.com.pure_rss

It only has a headlines view for now, the ui needs improvement, and there's no offline reading.

On the flip side - it's in active development, the above issues will improve, it has better support for filters than most options, and eventually it will have an ios version.

If you try it out I'd really appreciate it!

Feeder on f-droid or play store

It's a FOSS, RSS/Atom reader and supports pretty much all common formats. It's great!

I mean, there is an Android client built specifically for NextCloud, right?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.luhmer.owncloudnewsreader

I owe NextCloud a chance, but I haven't given it one. Well, I don't really owe it anything, but I just don't really like the idea of self-hosting. I'd gladly pay for a service, so I don't have to do maintenance. ... but not too much ...

My biggest gripe with Android is that the clients that are/were good seem to not get maintained. Or that they are tied to a particular service.

My biggest gripe with Feedbin is not having tags/labels. Inoreader just posted about how useful they can be on their blog. Right now, I send articles that need that level of curation to another service, and I have to do that manually. I really wish Feedbin could just send items that match a search criteria to another service (or give it a label), but I understand that is complex. I'm using Pinboard, mostly because I already have an account, and it has tagging and read-later support in Fiery Feeds all together.

I suppose I should be grateful that Feedbin uses tags as folders (so an article can be in multiple tags, but they show up as folders in most clients), has saved searches, and will star or mark read articles that match search criteria. It also has read-later support built in, which works with Fiery Feeds.

If I wasn't so stubborn about not self-hosting, I'd self-host Tiny Tiny RSS, and use the Wallabag plugin to auto-tag with rules. And I'd still use Fiery Feeds.

.. one way is to install ...

Kiwi Browser

&

RSS Subscription Extension (by Google)

which is great for rss feed discovery & to subscribe choose from a dropdown of rss readers.

 

But you need to click on the ... hamburger menu to display it.

This is actually a good use case for a free service I'm working on. You just need to import your data in a Google Sheet and create the RSS feed URL.

Here is a short write-up with some details and if you want I can help set it up for you as well.

Yes, using https://ifttt.com you receive an alert in a bunch of ways like email, their app, other web services, etc.

Or if you don't want to use a web service the Feedbro extension supports triggering browser notifications by keyword.

Interesting solution. I first thought it had nothing to do with filtering, but then I found your instructions here: https://www.notion.so/How-to-create-curated-newsletters-automatically-with-Mailbrew-Google-Sheets-and-crssnt-2c233ba6d826454f803ee74ea7c762e1

Great question. I don't know of any, but I did write some thoughts here:

https://www.notion.so/RSSN-RSS-Social-Network-964a8fe7a34b4d128851c2a9b3c20c13

Works fine in ...

https://www.inoreader.com/

see below

https://www.inoreader.com/feed/https%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2Frss%2Fsearch%3Fhl%3Dpt-BR%26gl%3DBR%26ceid%3DBR%253Apt-419%26q%3DDeepMind

Newsboat is a command line based RSS reader! I've never used it but I've heard good things about it! I've heard about it through Bryan Jenks so maybe check his videos and blog posts on it!

Well, next would be cloning/downloading the crssnt source code from Github.

Then you should already be able to run it from your local computer (for testing purposes) with the command firebase emulators:start

<code>https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/get-started#emulate-execution-of-your-functions</code>

&#x200B;

>Will I be able to have my own version run on the internet without any dependence on my local computer?

Sure, once you deploy it will run fully 'in the cloud' if that's what you mean.

Hello."article filters" in RSS Guard allow you to determine if you want accept or reject each article, or perhaps modify it.There is quite extensive documentation with examples.

If you want simple pattern matching filtering, then this:

https://pastebin.com/5s5WkSf1

the https://www.producthunt.com/topics page doesn't work? It was there when I was there earlier, hmm. I even went to a different browser, to see if maybe I was logged in, I don't think I was, but you never know. That link still works for me.

Well, as an example, [[https://www.producthunt.com/topics/web-app]] here's a list. [[https://www.producthunt.com/topics]] I've used rss.app to create them for me personally. Not all of them, just the ones I was interested in.

That site has an advertised RSS feed. You can just put the homepage into most feed readers and they will automatically find the feed.

https://subscene.com/rss/

I would also recommend installing a browser extension that will show an indicator when a site is advertising a feed.

Hi! So with pipes (and similar tools) you basically download the page and then extract the elements you want. Pipes wants css selectors for that, and that you then send all the collected element to a "Build Feed" block.

I created https://www.pipes.digital/pipe/1NjYgr9z for you, you can fork and edit it with a free account. Can't guarantee it will continue to work of course, but on a first look it seemed to work well.

I think you can set a macro in newsboat to an external command/script. Check out this wiki page. I don't know if it can be automated though.

I don't use Twitter RSS feeds but accomplish the same thing using a paid tool called Mailbrew (which is also my main RSS reader app BTW). There I follow a couple of Twitter lists I've set up as well as some aggregations provided by the app (top tweets/links - kind of similar to what lindylearn is doing).

I use something described here https://www.cronycle.com/blog/curate-from-newsletter-subscriptions/ Subscribe all my newsletters into the Feed, and then I can pin, save for later, push to buffer and share individual articles, without filling my Inbox. I can then further convert the pinned articles as an RSS, but I don't have a use-case to make them RSS further.

You could do it with Huginn. Set up a bunch of RSS Agents to pull the ones you listed. Run each event through an event formatting agent to pick out the parts you care about. Run those events through a Data Output Agent configured to emit an RSS feed.

first of all RSS doesn't really work in real time and some servers may blacklist you if you pull too often so at the very least respect their announced refresh rate

the easiest way to aggregate would probably be zapier https://zapier.com/apps/rss/integrations/rss/14142/aggregate-items-from-multiple-rss-feeds-into-a-single-rss-feed but you may not get all the control you need, personally I'd go with simplepie, but that requires at least some coding experience

I see. I think it is super-hard to get people change their social network, as your motivation to put content there depends on how many people will read it.

I had these thoughts previously. I guess the first crowd one would need to reach are current RSS consumers, e.g. Feedly / Inoreader users.

If one would build a free, similar feedreader that those people would start using, then one could slowly introduce social features there. For instance: liking and commenting on RSS items, finding "friends" by connecting to your Facebook / Twitter & subscribing/following them.

Maybe it's possible to simply extend a given (open source) feedreader, then you would already have its users in reach.

This is all an issue I'm still very interested in: how to create truly decentralized social media. If you like, we could have a chat / call on this.

if you want to keep feeder, there are some online services which can do that for you. something like feedrinse or zapier for instance. or you could host your own solution like tt-rss

I don't use a web based. I really like the ticker style readers.

Do you know anything better in that style than this http://www.battware.co.uk/desktopticker.htm ?

Checkout https://www.nooshub.com/pages/1332-neo-news, should be exactly what you are looking for: hot topics are at the top of the feed, you can use your own RSS feeds and configure the algorithm for identifying similar news! Preview currently only available when logged in, but some put the whole article in the RSS feed, then you can read it in the reader without distraction. I am not a fan of fetching full content from a newspaper, as in the long term you cut off the hand that feeds you (“feeds” 🙃)

Forgot to mention - If you like please have a look at "News International" https://www.nooshub.com/pages/7-news-international, that is "how it's meant to be" - multiple related feeds on a page and similar articles grouped together..

If you really just want the separate feeds with all the articles, I admit there are definitely better options..

Inoreader in its pro plan allows you to build filters based on RegEx or simply on character strings present in title and/or description, author tag... The pro plan (around 50$/year) is limited to 30 filters. You also can also build 30 "rules" based on RegEx to trigger actions like autotagging your items.

If you can manage a "to host" solution, Tiny Tiny RSS, lets you build RegEx filters without limitations.

Some services can filter RSS feed and create an outgoing RSS feed you then plug in any RSS reader. For example : https://www.pipes.digital

News Explorer will let you keep unread (and/or even read, if you want) items forever. I didn't see in this thread what OS you use, but if you're an iOS/MacOS person, you should look into it: https://betamagic.nl/products/newsexplorer.html I have been using it for a couple of years, and I keep unread items forever and have had no problems with that. I have a small group of feeds that I keep up on all the time and a large set I peruse at my leisure. The main limitation on this would be whatever room you have either on iCloud or locally, but even with... a LOT (north of 1M) of unread items, we're talking about 35GB.

I have corresponded with the developer a few times when I had an issue with a feed and he was very responsive.

Sorry if this isn't helpful because you use a different OS, I hope you find a client with the feature you are looking for.

I use Feed Demon. You can tell it to prefetch articles as well as specify the update frequency and download directory. One problem is that it doesn't download more than twenty articles at a time so I leave it running.

It means you use the app often.

so i screwed up, it's not auto syncing properly for me either if the app is in the background. it's reported as a bug on FeedMe's GitHub though

it's supposed to be fixed but i don't see anything about it

https://github.com/seazon/FeedMe/issues/54

Auto sync works on my other devices though without any problems (Android 6 and 7) so this has to do with some battery saving feature in Android 9. And I don't know how to fix it

At feeder.co it's part of our Pro plans to either send instant e-mail notifications or daily/weekly/monthly summaries. I can hook you up with a free trial if you're interested in giving it a go.

[feeder.co](feeder.co) has a public dashboard feature. It’s what we used to create our corona dashboard it seems to tick all the boxes for your use case. However the price tag is $115/month (it’s intended for internal enterprise sharing). I’d be happy to talk about it if you’re interested?

Hi !

I tried the free version of Feeder.co and I really liked it especially the feed feature with up to 10 columns -> very nice.

But please.... if you could... don't put any limit on the feed number for the pro version.

Hmm thank you all for the ideas. Very helpful - I played with a bunch of these, blogtrottr was a very close match to what I need, but only it's premium version would handle the instant update part - leaving me to compare it with Feeder.co which ultimately is exactly what I need - a free alternative doesn't seem clearly available, but this is fine - for $60/yr it's cloud based and easy to modify from anywhere. I may play with the IFTTT idea a bit and see what I can accomplish.

I could get the date, the title and the link of each item but not the summary with http://fetchrss.com/. The summary text is just free-floating text in the table td cell, so you can't choose it as an element. The RSS feed still generates ok, so it's worth a look.

That's not what it is doing.
What it offers: Look here for a website you are reading, e.g. Twitter, and create an RSS-feed of someone's user account. Or keyword search: https://docs.rsshub.app/en/

When standard methods like adding /rss or /rss.xml to URL don't work I check this:

1. Right click on site and "view page source"
2. Ctrl+f for "rss"

There are some ways to create custom feeds for sites that don't provide them on their own but I'm not very familiar with those. See https://docs.rsshub.app/en/ for example.

Twitter shut down the old web interface and broke a lot of rss sites. If you want one that still opens to twitter and not a separate site, try rsshub.app or an RSS-Bridge public host - both were working for me as of today.

Try BazQux Reader — it supports both RSS feeds (including those from Google alerts) and social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Telegram). I'm developer so you could ask me if you have any questions related to BazQux.

BazQux Reader shows comments for Reddit (and other blogs that support comment feeds) posts right in the reader and tracks what comments were read.

You could use expanded view mode to automatically show you new comments from feed (good for low volume feeds where you read everything, you can click "ignore" to not see new comments on uninteresting posts). Or you could tag post that you want to monitor and set tag view mode to expanded (good for high volume feeds where you don't read every comment).

BazQux Reader (I'm developer) supports reading of Facebook public pages and it shows videos.

Inoreader may work too.

Both are paid options. BazQux offers free 30 day trial, InoReader seems to offer free trial too.

BazQux Reader has mosaic and magazine view modes.

And you can set view modes separately (e.g. list view for high volume feeds, mosaic for photoblogs, expanded for must read blogs) and then read all your blogs in one stream in mixed view mode.

BazQux Reader has filters which you could apply to feeds so they will show only specific keywords https://blog.bazqux.com/2014/04/filters-and-smart-streams.html For multiple keywords you could use keyword1 OR keyword2 syntax.

Then you could use FeedMe app on Android and it will sync only filtered results. Or better just use website (perhaps added to home screen) since BazQux Reader has very nice mobile web interface (disclaimer: I'm developer, but many people really prefer it to apps)

BazQux Reader supports Telegram channels directly. But it's paid reader.

News+ (which is discontinued, btw) supports BazQux Reader too, although many people prefer mobile web interface (you could add site to home screen and it will work mostly like app). If you need offline you could try FeedMe app which is actively developed.

BazQux Reader (not free, has free trial) could do this with filters: https://blog.bazqux.com/2014/04/filters-and-smart-streams.html

Subscribe to sites you want to monitor, search for keywords you'd like to see, click "New filter" and then "Show found items only".

Or you could create a "Smart stream" -- separate feed with your search results that will update automatically whenever a new article with your keywords is published.

BazQux Reader checks almost everywhere (I'm developer).

There is no time limit on unread articles but there is a limit on total articles per feed. So you can't have more than 500 articles per feed unread or not.

On Android (or iOS) I would recommend to just add site to home screen. It will behave mostly like app (and you could use 3rd party client FeedMe if you need offline; not sure whether it accessible without Play Store).

All other features are here.

BazQux Reader (I'm developer). Paid only, refresh rate does not depend on feed popularity.

It has nice app-like web interface so you could just add it to home screen and use it like app without need for sync. For offline you could use FeedMe app.

Can’t recommend BazQux Reader enough. I’ve been using it for nearly 6 years now. It’s a web app and works brilliantly on desktop and mobile. It recently received a bit of an update which is covered in the latest blog post - BazQux Blog.

With regards to full article reading within the app there is a button on each article which will retrieve the full text. There is also an option to create a feed that auto pulls in the full article. Scroll to “Five Filters Full-Text RSS service” on the blog post.

Finally, the customer support is really good as well. u/vshabanov is the developer and I’m sure he would answer any questions you have.

I agree with TheLantean. Facebook does not want you to access them without tracking.

They have strong rate limits and only allows verified businesses to access their Public Page API. So, I'm afraid, you'll need to pay for this. You could try my BazQux Reader or Inoreader.

I will shamelessly suggest my BazQux Reader, it's paid but fetches feeds fast. If feed is often refreshed it could fetch it every 15-30minutes if it's rarely updated it will fetch less often -- 1-2 hours, or 3+ hours if it's more than a month old.

If you like to use Reddit feeds then both Feedly and Inoreader won't cut since Reddit has quite strong rate limits and free readers with millions of users have too many Reddit feeds to update them in time.

You could try BazQux Reader (disclaimer -- I'm developer). It deals with Reddit using Reddit API and shows embedded videos/slides/anything, keeps items looking in Reddit style and shows comments to items.

Shameless plug: you could try BazQux Reader. It supports all old YouTube feeds (including search and newsubscriptionvideos) and allows subscribing to YouTube searches directly (just paste URL).

But it's a paid reader.

After some digging on this, the service I’ve settled on is https://politepol.com/en/ . I believe it’s free so long as you don’t need your articles to include header images, and fairly intuitive. Good luck!

I'm going to answer in portuguese since op and I are from the same country and I can express myself better. I'll just basically recommend the same services that have been told here many times before, while providing a bit of context.

Os feeds têm de ser providenciados pela página. Há casos em que realmente o link está escondido no código-fonte mas pela minha experiência o browser detecta sempre e dá-te um pequeno ícone na barra de URL. Quando o site não tem mesmo qualquer suporte para RSS, a solução é usar serviços externos. Aqui tens uma variedade deles, desde self-hosting a serviços comerciais. Estes, frequentemente, têm também uma versão grátis mas bastante limitada. Se o teu uso é obter news que são publicadas com pouca frequência, à partida o serviço grátis é suficiente. Existe um desfasamento considerável porque as news só são puxadas a cada X horas (em geral, 2-4x por dia, depende mesmo do serviço).

Os sites que uso e que se mantêm são www.fetchrss.com e o meu preferido www.politepol.com. Em ambos os casos vais ter de "montar" a news: definir título e corpo, pelo menos. O fetchrss permite um fine tuning maior mas é também o mais complicado (estou a assumir que percebas pouco de código, como eu). O Politepol é facílimo e na minha experiência o mais sólido dos dois. Exemplo de feed criada para o primeiro link: https://politepol.com/en/preview/287769 (só dura 14 dias porque o criei sem conta; se te registares, o feed não tem limite de vida, a menos que o removas do leitor e não haja pedidos durante algum tempo). O segundo link é mais complexo mas com o Fetchrss deve de ir lá.

É possível também obter feeds rss para social media (twitter, facebook, inta) mas como já deves ter percebido é necessário contornar algumas coisas usando serviços de terceiros que estão a desaparecer e reaparecer constantemente... E, no caso do facebook, só mesmo páginas públicas.

RSS Guard 3.9.x indeed does not support SOUND notifications. That said, latest development build DOES offer sound notifications as I added the feature very recently.

https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/releases/tag/devbuild

Just use the appimage and navigate to Settings -> Notifications.

RSS Guard (desktop app) supports SOCKS5 proxies and is 100% open-source and free. No tracking, no telemetry and there is even WebEngine-free (Chromium-free) version for ultra privacy. WebEngine-based version contains AdBlock component (which supports ADB+ filters). It supports custom Python "scrapers", it is totally customizable, has plugin-like interface and I am eager to accept any reasonable and well-structured PRs. It runs on Linux too.

https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard

I am the author.

As for the other RSS readers for Linux, there are some self-hosted web-based alternatives (for example FreshRSS or perhaps TT-RSS - which if I am not mistaken - supports proxies too, not sure). There is QuiteRSS which has many similarities with RSS Guard, but it is dead project (no latest development, many bugs), there is Liferea which does not seem to suppor SOCKS5 proxies. There is also Newsboat, which does support SOCKS5, but is terminal-based. :)

Hi u/Quirky-Specific.

I could write a post-processing RSS Guard script for you, which would automatically translate texts of your feed to some other language.

https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/blob/version-4/resources/docs/Documentation.md#websites-scraping

The script would be a Python script which would take RAW feed XML document/data as input and produce the same XML output, but with texts translated.

The resulting script could be used even outside of RSS Guard.

Here you have some python-based scrapers, which I wrote for RSS Guard.

They generally take raw HTML website data as input or download it, then they parse data with regexps or some other html library and produce JSON feed.

Not sure what you mean by multiple "enclosure" tags, because ATOM does support multiple enclosures per message, same for RSS which also does not limit per message enclosures to 1, you can have arbitrary numbers - both formats specify "content/mime" type of enclosures as well.

Well-behaving RSS/ATOM feed reader will parse all "enclosure" elements within a message.

Hello. As for the icon, can you be more specific which icon and where exactly? As for web browser - "use external web browser"? you probably mean "use CUSTOM external web browser" which is unrelated.

The slimmed version of RSS Guard without bundled web browser means that bundled web browser is not even compiled, which results in smaller binary, smaller installation packages. Check dev. build (wait 10 minutes for assets to show, it is compiling RN) and you will see there assets with "nowebengine" in their names -> that is the version without bundled web browser. There is also AppImage file for Linux, which works quite well last time I tried.

BazQux Reader and Feedbin both have no limit on unread articles age. But both have limits on total articles per feed (500 in BazQux Reader and at least 500 in Feedbin)

Perhaps Reeder is syncing too infrequently. Try any online feed reader (which will fetch feed by itself between Reeder syncs) that Reeder could sync.

Or wait a bit. From Reeder FAQ (https://reederapp.com): "Q. Refresh in background doesn't seem to be working. A. It takes a while for iOS to let new applications refresh in background. This can take up to a couple of days."

Newsblur.[free for up to 64 feeds] ... e.g.

Subscribe to https://www.cbr.com/feed/latest-comics-news/

Right-click on the subscription and choose Intelligence trainer and just select Brian Conin from the Authors list

To only read "Brian Conin" articles click the focus button

Feedbro can natively read RSS/Atom/RDF feeds, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Bitchute, VK, Telegram, LinkedIn, Yammer, Slideshare, Pinterest etc.

Just install Feedbro and use "Find Feeds in Current Tab" WebExtension popup action to subscribe when you are on a page you'd like to monitor (note: not all web pages can be monitored).

https://nodetics.com/feedbro

Thanks. That's not a cloud reader, it runs inside your browser. If you're ok with that reportedly Feedbro is a good choice, although I don't understand the business model of Nodetics.

https://nodetics.com/feedbro - when adding the feed, adjust the "Feed entry content" setting to for example: "Get full article body with main image".

Then Feedbro will automatically fetch full-text articles for the feed entries (in case feed provides only short summaries). Disclaimer: doesn't work on all sites but it does work on most sites.

You could install Feedbro in your browser(Chrome / Vivaldi / Firefox) and then use rules to follow your keywords.

Using Rules does involve a learning process; I've just started experimenting with them.

In addition to RSS, Atom and RDF feeds, Feedbro supports aggregating content from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, VK, Yammer, YouTube Channels, YouTube Search, LinkedIn Groups, LinkedIn Job Search, Bitchute, Vimeo, Flickr, Pinterest, Google+, SlideShare Search and Reddit.

https://nodetics.com/feedbro

So far Inoreader isn't forcing me to remove feeds so I kept my account and installed Feedbro for new feeds: https://nodetics.com/feedbro/

Of course, using two readers is less then optimal, but it's something I can live with.

I am not sure but with the PRO version you can save them in Google Drive. For the pricing:

https://www.inoreader.com/pricing

You can create a profile for free and you will see.... I personally use the PRO version and they keep all the feeds even the ones which are 5 years old or i can save them.

I use Feedly, but I have a subscription. This site looks like it would do what you want: https://rss.app/ but you have to have an account, and it's not clear to me whether or not it's completely free. Here is some info from Inoreader on the topic: https://www.inoreader.com/knowledge-base/how-to-create-rss-feeds-from-twitter

The points /u/chickenandliver makes are spot on and something I didn't highlight myself clearly enough. Inoreader is a perfectly functional RSS reader. However, it does so much more and that is what you pay for. Explore the features before you jump in with a paid plan.

Also, Feedly does look more beautiful than Inoreader - with that said, features are a higher priority - the sheer range of customisation in Inoreader is massive.

To answer your questions, I went with the Pro plan as I wanted rules, de-duplication, filters etc. The apps on iPhone and iPad are excellent (can't comment on other platforms) and sync seamlessly with their website portal.

you can have a look on;

www.inoreader.com

you can convert Almost Any Webpage Into RSS Feed with the pro version; maybe it can help.

but it is not at 100% perfect.

Here is an article from Inoreader which will help you to understand:

https://www.inoreader.com/blog/2020/03/how-we-made-our-free-covid-19-alerting-system-and-how-you-can-build-your-own-for-any-topic.html

Depending what I want to do, I set up my search looking for specific articles from my feeds or global search.

Inoreader has this feature. It integrates with your YouTube account so that subscribing/unsubscribing from a channel in YouTube will automatically add/remove its RSS feed from your Inoreader subscriptions list. More: https://www.inoreader.com/blog/2020/04/keep-your-youtube-subscriptions-in-sync-with-inoreader.html

I use newsboat along with w3m to fetch & read all my feeds. Newsboat is a terminal app & I know terminal apps aren't for everyone, but it works perfectly for me & I never have any problems....

>I know Fivefilters has a similar feature, but the end result isn't great as it doesn't include the title of the articles I'm trying to include and it only allows a maximum of 20 URLs at a time, whereas I'd prefer a lot more.

The feature we offer for creating a static feed in Feed Creator is somewhat limited and really intended for a small set of articles. The static feed will contain only item URLs, which aren't that helpful in most scenarios, but we created it so that the feed could then be expanded with something like our Full-Text RSS tool, which will then include titles and content for each item. Both of these solutions however have limits on the number of items they will process in one go, so they're not suitable for generating static feeds with many items I'm afraid.

Here's the Feed Creator output: http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/index.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prnewswire.com%2Fnews%2Fbmo-financial-group%2F&amp;item=a.newsreleaseconsolidatelink&amp;item_title=h3+span&amp;item_desc=p&amp;guid=url

Not sure about android, but there are many both online and self-hosted/offline services to generate feeds for every page.

rss-bridge, RSS Guard, this, and many other apps

Our Feed Creator tool can also generate an RSS feed directly from Craigslist search results. For example:

http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/index.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdenver.craigslist.org%2Fsearch%2Fsss%3Fquery%3Droad%2Bbike%26sort%3Drel&amp;item=.result-info&amp;item_title=h3&amp;item_desc=.result-price&amp;item_date=time+%40datetime

Here's what our Feed Creator can produce for the Associated Press:

http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/index.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapnews.com%2Fhub%2Finternational-news&amp;item=.FeedCard&amp;item_desc=p&amp;item_date=.Timestamp+%40data-source

Here's the Feed Creator output for the second URL:

http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/index.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sdna.gr%2Fteams%2Fpanathinaikos%2Fmpasket&amp;item=.default-teaser__article&amp;item_title=h3