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minus-squareEugene V. Debs' GhostlinkfedilinkEnglish13•4 months agoI think it would be hard to re-invent RSS for money, it’s part of why it’s so simple. RSS as a service makes sense for backend, not front end where most of the money would be made. And killing RSS is… Kinda here? It’s difficult to get a RSS feed on most websites, unless you can scrape it or find someone who’s done it for you. Man I should use RSS more…
minus-squareMose13linkfedilinkEnglish6•4 months agoI get that the idea of rss is sort of a universal protocol for publishing articles, which is really cool, but damnit if you make me parse XML in 2025. As a developer, I would be ok if they modernized RSS feeds. Something like this
minus-square@interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish3•4 months agoIs there a project to quickly scrape and rssify and website?
I think it would be hard to re-invent RSS for money, it’s part of why it’s so simple.
RSS as a service makes sense for backend, not front end where most of the money would be made.
And killing RSS is… Kinda here? It’s difficult to get a RSS feed on most websites, unless you can scrape it or find someone who’s done it for you.
Man I should use RSS more…
I get that the idea of rss is sort of a universal protocol for publishing articles, which is really cool, but damnit if you make me parse XML in 2025. As a developer, I would be ok if they modernized RSS feeds.
Something like this
JSON!
Is there a project to quickly scrape and rssify and website?