RSS-Bridge

Originally published on 2021-09-12.

Generate Atom or RSS feeds

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In the spirit of building my own platform I created an instance of RSS-Bridge and wrote about it here as part of the archive’s record.

What is RSS-Bridge?

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RSS-Bridge is free and open source software for generating Atom or RSS feeds from websites which don’t have one. RSS-Bridge is not a feed reader or feed aggregator, but a tool to generate feeds that are consumed by feed readers and feed aggregators. The RSS-Bridge project aims at sites that:

• don’t provide public accessible Atom or RSS feeds
• force their users to subscribe to e-mail notifications
• force their users to use their own proprietary APIs
• require their users to come back on a regular basis in order to check for new content

RSS-Bridge will generate feeds based on “bridges” that are developed for any site. Those bridges will collect data and extract all necessary informatin which is then converted into various feed formats like Atom or RSS. The project strives to reconnect the Web and the contributors are very passionate about their cause.

Resources

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For further information on how I setup RSS-Bridge consult these resources:

• RSS-Bridge project’s github
• Landchad.net’s guide: Setting up RSS Bridge
• Reconnecting the Web with RSS-Bridge