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.
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.
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’.