I have used FreshRSS before but I was always annoyed that some sites don’t provide RSS feeds and that even if they provide feeds they don’t provide the whole content through it and only a preview.
What do you recommend for the perfect RSS setup? What are you using? Which app are you using to read them?
I have seen this before. I have no idea what it is and there doesn’t seem to be an explanation anywhere at all.
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.
But I can do that without this software
Ok. This makes it trivial to do so since youtube RSS feeds are eithet nonexistent or unreliable.
They’re neither of those things. I use them every day already.
Congrats! My native youtube RSS feeds are mostly 404 or access forbidden, depending on the day, as are many others’.
Thats it. First sentence on link. Generates an rss feed from a youtube channel or from a soundcloud user, etc
Right but, why do I need to self-host this?
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.
You don’t have to self host it if you scroll down there is a list of public instances: https://rss-bridge.github.io/rss-bridge/General/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