For those self-hosting RSS feeds... what options do you have when the source doesn't have an RSS feed? - eviltoast

With Twitter being worse than ever, I can no longer pull local news and municipal events through Nitter’s RSS feature.

Since so many groups have stopped using RSS to deliver news, and have put all their eggs in the social media basket, it leaves a void that can’t be replaced by signing up to a dozen newsletters.

Do you guys have any other solutions for maybe scraping websites to generate RSS feeds or something like that?

I’m using FresshRSS. It has web scraping, but seems to require a lot of manual syntax entry, and seems to error out regardless.

  • Jozzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Don’t know if this will achieve what you want, but I selfhost ChangeDetection.io to check if webpages have been updated, then subscribe to changedetection’s RSS feed with FreshRSS.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Interesting option! I don’t think it will suit my needs for this particular request, but I do have other uses for it =) Thank you for the suggestion.