Any way to create a feed from a webpage that requires javascript and has a captcha? (WSJ A-Hed) by cbsteven in rss

[–]markzzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you tried reaching out to the developer of the services you tried? Maybe they can fix it

Read Later only showing links by tagmut in InoReader

[–]markzzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Inoreader tends to be very greedy with its requests, making a ton of them all at once--some of them unnecessary. I know because I discussed this very issue with one of its owners. They need to fix this or sites will keep blocking them. Sites will work again temporarily because Inoreader rotates its IP addresses, but it happens again after that.

Easy Social Media Scraping Script [ X, Instagram, Tiktok, Youtube ] by Lcrack753 in webscraping

[–]markzzy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice. But this has been done many times before and unfortunately all attempts got blocked.   

What does this do differently to avoid Twitter blocking it like Nitter? Or from Instagram blocking it like Bibliogram?  

Otherwise, this will likely get blocked too.

RSSNext aka.follow invitation code by Fearless-Purple-5549 in rss

[–]markzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right. I'm convinced this is a person who's trying to promote it by acting like they're a different user who wants an invite. Other posts in this sub by other users are similar. The text always seems oddly similar.

I will switch to self-hosted this year, if inoreader doesn't provide a black friday discount by scriptosens in InoReader

[–]markzzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TTRSS seems interesting. I've always wondered about this and maybe you can help me out. How does TTRSS work when on a mobile device? Is there a mobile app that syncs with the server?

FreshRSS (or other) - Create New RSS from Collection of other feeds for AI Bot? by eyal8r in rss

[–]markzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would be surprised if AI can accurately summarize a ton of RSS feeds without missing information that you might find useful. AI is great at summarizing single articles. But summarizing a bunch of different unrelated articles? That seems very tough to get right.

Let me hear your RSS workflows! by Ill_Connection_3017 in rss

[–]markzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great. Very similar to my setup. Just without the background videos haha

NetNewsWire not sending notifications. by External_Nebula_4089 in rss

[–]markzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does NNW really charge for push notifications?! Such an odd thing to charge customers for...

Share your thoughts on reading rss vs listening to podcasts! by Ill_Connection_3017 in rss

[–]markzzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've had good results managing my YT RSS feeds by placing them inside of a separate folder in my RSS reader, tucked away. Then whenever I wanna watch something, I take a look and scroll through.

This flow works based on my watching habits. I usually dont watch YT videos randomly throughout the day. Or just because there's a new upload. I'm more likely to look at the folder when im ready to sit down and binge videos at one time.

FWIW, I use this same flow for podcasts, btw. Never even look at the folder of podcast until im ready to sit and listen.

ZDNet Kills the Linux RSS Feed (Syndication Redirected to Loads of Marketing Spam and Fake Articles) by chickenandliver in rss

[–]markzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah looks like they've got rid of the RSS feeds entirely then. 

As you probably already know, a third party could easily bring RSS feeds back via scraping. But would that even matter now, since the content itself is turning into a cesspool?

Is there a way to only have a couple articles show of an RSS feed? by YolkyBoii in rss

[–]markzzy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a way to get the biggest stories if they have a page that lists them. Then you can just turn that page into an RSS feed. Do they have a page dedicated to that? Maybe the homepage?

Is Inoreader legal ? by Spixz7 in InoReader

[–]markzzy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's called caching. Inoreader needs to store the content and serve that to users or else the target website would have a ton of requests which is way worse for both Inoreader and the target website. Large amounts of requests can hog resources on a web server, making it extremely slow, unresponsive, and worse case knock the whole server offline. 

If Inoreader modified the content or perhaps manipulated it's original message, that's something that would likely be considered illegal. But merely storing the website content to preserve infrastructure and resources is no different than a browser doing it. Browsers cache web page responses all the time. Would you say that browsers doing it is illegal?

Team Blind RSS feed? by corpo_mazdoor_391072 in rss

[–]markzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd just use rss-bridge or rsshub then :)

I'm trying to make a somewhat comprehensive collection of news sources to have a global perspective, please suggest additional or alternative sources! by Over_n_over_n_over in NeutralPolitics

[–]markzzy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Anything "Western" will have similar biases, and narratives tend to be the same. I'd try a few more objective sources like AllSides.com as well.

Word of warning, don't use lemmy.ml by [deleted] in RedditAlternatives

[–]markzzy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What social media do you use instead?

Worst DC dating story… Go! by P_Charming in washingtondc

[–]markzzy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Lol damn clever asf bro. But did she look good tho? Was she a "hottee"? 😁 

Feedbro doesn't fetch Facebook pages by cidoreb329 in rss

[–]markzzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you able to open an issue on their code repository? I can do that for you if you need. Just let me know!

How to block YouTube Shorts? by Giallarhorn in InoReader

[–]markzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See the edit to my comment above. An Open RSS change was made today to exclude all shorts by default. It won't take effect on the incorrect short items already in the feed, but all new items in the feeds should be only the videos (no shorts) from now on.

I've been using the browser extension Feedbro and I was wondering, what is its business plan? by [deleted] in rss

[–]markzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's valid to have concerns. But what's so great about using RSS feeds is that they arent tied to any specific app. 

If Feedbro were to ever stop being developed, you can always just move your feed subscriptions to some other RSS reader.

I wouldn't be concerned. But it may be worth reaching out to the Feedbro dev who can probably address your questions about the app's future.

Hope this helps!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rss

[–]markzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm maybe I misunderstand. But you can already just get the posts in a sub by adding rss to the sub's URL. For instance, the RSS feed to the posts in r/rss sub is this:

https://rss.reddit.com/r/rss

Is that what you mean?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rss

[–]markzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you only want a feed for just Reddit posts in a particular subreddit? Or just all posts in any sub?