The RSS feed for websites missing it
Thats it. First sentence on link. Generates an rss feed from a youtube channel or from a soundcloud user, etc
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helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 months agoI have seen this before. I have no idea what it is and there doesn’t seem to be an explanation anywhere at all.
infeeeee@lemm.ee 4 months ago
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Right but, why do I need to self-host this?
poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
How else are you going to use it? Ok they have an hosted instance, but that’s not great for privacy and will break as soon as it gets somewhat popular as the sites usually have scraping protections.
infeeeee@lemm.ee 4 months ago
You don’t have to self host it if you scroll down there is a list of public instances: rss-bridge.github.io/…/Public_Hosts.html
Reason to self host, some websites don’t like rss bridge because it’s a kind of adblock from their point of view, and they actively block the ip addresses of these instances. If you selfhost it, you can use these sites, because a single user instance won’t generate as much traffic than 1000 users, so they won’t notice your instance
pukeko@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Ok, let’s say you selfhost RSS Bridge at myselfhost.net:1234. Let’s say you want to follow a youtube channel, @fancyyoutuber, via RSS. Plug the channel into rss-bridge, and it outputs an RSS feed at myselfhost.net:1234/feed/youtube/fancyyoutuber/atom.xml (I totally made that link up). You plug that into your RSS reader of choice as the feed source, and, boom, the youtube channel is in your reader.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 months ago
But I can do that without this software
pukeko@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Ok. This makes it trivial to do so since youtube RSS feeds are eithet nonexistent or unreliable.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 months ago
They’re neither of those things. I use them every day already.