I use it for news aggregation with Nextcloud news. Also for podcasts and PeerTube channels. Anyone using RSS for other things?
I use RSS to watch YouTube videos. I collect the ULRs of the videos I want to watch in a text file using my feed reader (Newsboat). In the evening a script transfers the file to my TV computer and fetches the videos with yt-dlp.
To play the videos I use another script, which plays and then trashes the video files in a loop.
Pros: no ads, no buffering videos during playback, plays videos without interaction (like TV), can collect video URLs over day, don’t have to bother with YouTube’s user interface, cookies etc.
I like that idea! Any chance you would be able to share the script or the general workflow?
I just wrote down simplified versions of my scripts. Then I clicked the wrong button to exit the markdown preview and now it’s all gone. I’ll have to drink a beer now, sorry. If you have any specific questions, I’ll answer them gladly.
Parent’s is more complicated, but this simple script may be a good place to start. In this case, I follow a channel that posts new music videos for discovery. This automatically downloads (just the audio) using yt-dlp to a local directory. It could easily be modified to download the video (just change the -f flag). I run this with cron once a day.
https://gist.github.com/line72/ceef5402881d6d3ae732e7b7c9cbf01b
I self-host FreshRSS and use it for:
- Blogs
- News-Sites
- Piped (YouTube) channels
- GitHub releases
FreshRSS here, too. Tech, State and local news all nicely sorted where I can firehose it or just see small sections.
+1 for FreshRSS. It’s excellent and has been very easy to host for years.
I use this lightweight reader by the same dev who makes Bookstack. Just for news though. I use Audiobookshelf for podcasts.
What news do you add to it?
Nothing special, just WaPo, NPR, NYT, etc. I just prefer aggregating all those sites instead of going to them individually when I some that kind of news.
Thanks for explaining!
I subscribe to:
- Blogs I find interesting
- Blogs of personal friends
- Projects’ blogs and announcements
- Changes to codebase I need to closely monitor (e.g. things I host)
- Videos, mostly on YouTube, but also my PeerTube feed
- Web comics
Blogs, news sites, YouTube channels of a few favorite music artists, web comics, etc. FreshRss is my favorite.
I have never used RSS until literally this week lol. I added the AWS health RSS. I have no idea how it works. Like, I get the idea but not how to practically use it.
Instead of going to blogs, YouTube, podcast etc. you subscribe to them and feetch news from them via RSS in a web or local client. IMHO the way things should work 🙂
I’ve never thought of using it for video subscriptions. Great idea to have everything all in once place.
Yes. I use it on my phone. I use AntennaPod for pod casts, and Flym for textual news feeds. Antenna pod in particular is really nice. I finding having this sort of content on a mobile device best.
Blogs, local news sources, weather sources. Some gov.uk reports. Although I’ve tried several clients I keep falling back to Thunderbird and Aggregator (simple Android client).
I use freshrss. It is my primary source of information. Here are some of the things I follow:
- Various Local News Sources
- Local City Council Blog
- Various National/International News Sources
- Various Blogs
- Comics (SMBC, xkcd, …)
- Music Review Sites/Blogs
- Various Record Label feeds (I run a small distributor)
- YouTube Channels :: This is so much better than going to youtube
- New Releases/ChangeLogs of various OSS projects I follow and host
- Various Planet (Gnome/Gnu/Debian/…) Aggregators
- Google Alerts
- Lemmy Communities
- Reddit Communities (We’ll see where these go)
- HomeLab/Cron :: Instead of dealing with emails, I generate RSS feeds from my cron scripts/home lab notifications
- Email Subscriptions :: I take some email notification (like new releases on bandcamp) and convert them to RSS
I use Feedly after Google reader died. Pretty much only use it for webcomics.
@privsecfoss Newsboat and feedly
I use RSS through Readwise Reader though I’ve used Newsblur in the past. I really wish Newsblur was redesigned to get a more modern interface…
My use is not foss because I didn’t find something that fits my needs better than Inoreader. There is the android app which works fine and also a very nice web interface that I can use at work because without thumbnails it looks like a ‘boring’ list of stuff.
Never used Inoreader, but recently switched to Newsblur which is open source (app installable via F-Droid) and selfhostable. If you don’t want to self host they have a freemium model to use their hosted service, couldn’t tell you what free vs paid gets you but I haven’t bumped into any limits yet. You can also log in to their site to browse via web browser.
So far the app looks better than other open source readers I’ve tried and thumbnails generally load so the lists are a bit livelier.
I don’t. Google reader died, and all of the blogs put themselves on social media.
The walled garden is almost complete.
