I use it for news aggregation with Nextcloud news. Also for podcasts and PeerTube channels. Anyone using RSS for other things?
- apoisel ( @apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de ) 15•1 year ago
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.
- BadlyHunt ( @BadlyHunt@discuss.tchncs.de ) 6•1 year ago
I like that idea! Any chance you would be able to share the script or the general workflow?
- apoisel ( @apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de ) 6•1 year ago
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.
- fitgse ( @fitgse@sh.itjust.works ) 2•1 year ago
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
- sibloure ( @sibloure@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Ahh these are some smart ideas. I’m going to be looking into a similar setup now.
- slaecker ( @slaecker@lemmy.world ) 13•1 year ago
I self-host FreshRSS and use it for:
- Blogs
- News-Sites
- Piped (YouTube) channels
- GitHub releases
- TwinTurbo ( @TwinTurbo@lemmy.world ) 4•1 year ago
+1 for FreshRSS. It’s excellent and has been very easy to host for years.
- Leo ( @leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ) 3•1 year ago
FreshRSS here, too. Tech, State and local news all nicely sorted where I can firehose it or just see small sections.
- Aurailious ( @Aurailious@beehaw.org ) 8•1 year ago
I use this lightweight reader by the same dev who makes Bookstack. Just for news though. I use Audiobookshelf for podcasts.
- ComradeMiao ( @ComradeMiao@lemmy.world ) 4•1 year ago
What news do you add to it?
- Aurailious ( @Aurailious@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
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.
- ComradeMiao ( @ComradeMiao@lemmy.world ) 3•1 year ago
Thanks for explaining!
- McSinyx ( @cnx@slrpnk.net ) 7•1 year ago
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
- fitgse ( @fitgse@sh.itjust.works ) 5•1 year ago
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
- The saucest tof ( @TofuSauce@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
how do you do the last one with email subscription ? i’d love to have squff like the tldr newsletter as rss
I don’t. Google reader died, and all of the blogs put themselves on social media.
The walled garden is almost complete.
- Someology ( @Someology@lemmy.world ) 4•1 year ago
Blogs, news sites, YouTube channels of a few favorite music artists, web comics, etc. FreshRss is my favorite.
- flatbield ( @furrowsofar@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
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.
- bet ( @bet@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
after Google shut down Reader, I took my OPML (list of subscriptions), and switched to a FOSS local RSS reader; import my OPML and carry on. I’ve switched software occasionally; right now I’m happy with Feeder (from f-droid).
Getting my news is something I care about too much to entrust to someone’s server; I’m happy with it purely local.
- fouc ( @fouc@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
I’ve been using RSS since before Google Reader was a thing. It’s a fantastic way to monitor new papers in journals as almost all journals have been providing a feed since forever. I could go with a self-hosted option but I just ended up using Inoreader although I will probably migrate again. They used to have some entry level plans (they call it supporter plan) at some €20/yr but it looks like they are no longer available for new users.
- sibloure ( @sibloure@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
I’ve never thought of using it for video subscriptions. Great idea to have everything all in once place.
- ComradeMiao ( @ComradeMiao@lemmy.world ) 3•1 year ago
For qbittorrent for sites I know I will want their stuff.
- Ticktok ( @Ticktok@lemmy.one ) 3•1 year ago
I use Feedly after Google reader died. Pretty much only use it for webcomics.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) 3•1 year ago
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 🙂
- proycon ( @proycon@lemmy.world ) English3•1 year ago
I use newsboat for all my RSS needs, which is pretty much my main entry point for a lot of things:
- News sites
- Various blogs
- Youtube channels (I unsubscribed from everything on my YouTube account, hardly ever login, and only use RSS to follow the channels I want)
- Podcasts
- I used to have some subreddits in there too, but those were ritually deleted after June 12th of course
- fitgse ( @fitgse@sh.itjust.works ) English4•1 year ago
Youtube channels (I unsubscribed from everything on my YouTube account, hardly ever login, and only use RSS to follow the channels I want)
This is the way to do it. I can’t stand youtube’s interface and its recommendations, auto play, and other anti-features frustrate me. I find that on youtube, when I go look at a channel, I often can’t figure out which video is the most recent, and really struggle to see figure out what I’ve watched and what I haven’t.
Using RSS let’s me see when there is a new video posted just from the channels I am interested in. I don’t have to go hunting. FreshRSS will watch it through youtube-nocookie.com, but I often find using yt-dlp is better experience, especially for anything longer than 5 minutes.