Jan-Lukas Else

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Follow websites without RSS using the XPath RSS-Bridge

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I currently use RSS-Bridge to follow Telegram channels and read new messages in Miniflux. RSS-Bridge is a really cool project that tries to provide RSS (or ATOM, JSON, HTML…) feeds for sites that don’t do that directly.

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RSS by email

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Today I learned about RSS by email, a service that let’s you subscribe to RSS feeds by email.

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“Why I still use RSS”

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Marc reminds why RSS is still a great solution, especially during this difficult times.

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Things I noticed and a thank you!

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Since migrating my blog to the new CMS, I carefully watch the BunnyCDN logs to see if there are some errors or 404s somewhere. It’s looking good so far. Two days ago, I found an issue with the routing of paths that included an encoded character (such as ü or ä), but I found an easy workaround for this. Another thing I noticed by looking at the logs is the number of requests to the feeds on this website.

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Making RSS more visible again with a /feeds page

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Marcus Herrmann suggests using a /feeds page on your blog to list all the available (RSS) feeds to follow you.

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Platforms

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I built myself a TikTokToJsonFeed tool a month ago to follow some profiles, because I don’t want to install the app or create myself an account there. That tool uses a JavaScript library called tiktok-scraper. Unfortunately TikTok changed some things in the UI or unofficial API and now the scraper is broken. This and the fact that platforms like TikTok or Instagram (and many more) block IPs when they detect scrapers is actually a big warning sign. ⚠️ Such platforms don’t want to do anything but keep users on them, show them ads and make the big bucks.

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Please consider full content feeds

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Kev Quirk wrote a great article about why having “full post RSS feeds” is a good idea. It’s mainly because then people can use a feed reader, customize it to their personal preferences (font, contrast and other accessibility features) and read the content in their preferred way.

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How to read RSS in 2020

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I often talk about “RSS feeds” and that it’s my favorite way to follow content sources (news, blogs, YouTube channels) on the internet. Laura Kalbag wrote about how to read RSS in 2020 in which she explains the basics and benefits about RSS.

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Friends must be free to choose whatever software and service they want

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This rant is great!

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Is Having an RSS Feed Just Giving Content Away for Free?

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Chris Coyier is thinking in an article on CSS-Tricks about RSS:

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