Feed Me Up, Scotty – Custom Rss Feed Generation Using CSS Selectors

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The story presents 'Feed me up, Scotty', a tool for generating custom RSS feeds using CSS selectors, and the discussion highlights its potential uses and limitations, including handling pages behind logins and private content.

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upcoming-sesame

3 months ago

I've been using it to create an RSS feed of all the real estate companies websites in my area to get a competitive edge when new properties are being published.

Works great

wiether

3 months ago

FYI some feed aggregators have their own solution to subscribe to sites without feeds.

The one on FreshRSS works great: https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/11_website_scra...

drewrbaker

3 months ago

I really want something like this that will work for pages behind a login. Would love it for my bank and credit card transactions all in one place, without having to use a 3rd party data mining service.

rsaz

3 months ago

Love the logo, very smart. I wonder if this would be useful for people with hand-coded websites to easily provide an RSS feed. Right now I'm actually maintaining one manually, so I might look into setting this up.

vindin

3 months ago

Love the powerful simplicity, nice work

pavel_lishin

3 months ago

I need (well, want) to generate an RSS feed of the various Facebook groups I'm subscribed to, but the problem is that most of them are private, so I think I'll either need to figure out whether I can do this via their APIs, or whether I'll have to start scraping using browser automation.

mbanerjeepalmer

3 months ago

This looks neat. Will try it out and report back.

Added to my list of converters: https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/1ntvtb2/rss_converter/

b3ing

3 months ago

So any page can turn into an rss feed

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