gábor ugray
Under-the-radar late night launch: RSS Parrot is live! It talks like Mastodon, but it doesn't walk like Mastodon. BUT! It will relay any RSS feed straight into your timeline.
Turn Mastodon into your very own feed reader. Follow anything that has an RSS feed and get a toot about new posts.
How? Mention @birb with the address you want to follow.
More details at https://rss-parrot.net. Boost for visibility :)
Claire Barnes
@kellogh I just rediscovered RSS & apart from feeds which are by design or for me read-only, I'm finding it invaluable to (a) keep track of my must-read people (& click through if I wish to read or join a Fediverse conversation), (b) to index my own posts on Mastodon so that I can relocate them without endless scrolling! (My instance does not yet have search options - & the RSS reader is fast.) @twilliability
#RSS #Elasticsearch #OpenWeb
Tim Kellogg
@twilliability It's pretty cool. I think it's potentially the start of a big trend https://timkellogg.me/blog/2024/01/03/birb (that has an RSS feed too :blobfox:)
gábor ugray
Wow! The repsonse to RSS Parrot in the first day has been overwhelming ✨ Thank you all for the enthusiasm and the overwhelmingly positive messages!
Plus, the birb survived the day 🦜🦜🦜 :)
I started a "Changes" section where I wrote up what's happened since the launch: https://rss-parrot.net/web/changes#2024-01-03
I'll be slightly more hands-off in the next few days. May the feeds be strong with you! 🧘♀️
Tim Chambers
@twilliability @birb Do you (or could you) support Podcast RSS too? So one could follow any Podcast here?
Tim Chambers
@twilliability @birb Not sure - there might be some podcast specific RSS elements that need to be supported… we could try any of these feeds: https://rss.feedspot.com/podcast_rss_feeds/
gábor ugray
@tchambers @birb Hmmmm, I didn't explicitly test those, but they should work out of the box? Do you have an example link where you're not getting what you expect?
Tim Chambers
@twilliability @negative12dollarbill Agreed - that is the functionality.
gábor ugray
@negative12dollarbill @tchambers It seems straightforward to extract the link to the audio from <enclosure>.
What behavior would you expect when clicking it? I can't think much beyond "it will start streaming in your Mastodon client, or browser".
Negative12DollarBill
@tchambers @twilliability @birb
The key element in a podcast RSS feed is <enclosure>
gábor ugray
Just released an update (details at https://rss-parrot.net/web/changes).
- Birb now accepts DMs
- No more ' entities for apostrophes etc.
- Birb can reply if you're on a secure server ("authorized_fetch"). If you received no reply earlier, this hopefully fixes it.
- Audio link included for podcast episodes
Enjoy :)
S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸
@smallcircles @twilliability wonderful!!!
small circle 🕊 in calmness
@stevenbodzin @twilliability @birb
Nice indeed! I will queue this for https://delightful.club/delightful-activitypub-development
I see the sources live at https://github.com/gugray/rss-parrot
S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸
@twilliability @birb this is amazing! Viva RSS!!
The thing that has been driving me crazy about RSS lately is that Feed Rinse, the circa 2000 RSS filter, has been having server issues and is letting tremendous quantities of previously filtered posts through into my feed. I want a effective and up-to-date feed filter. Do you know of any?
clacke
Taha Ahmed
@twilliability @birb Very cool! Any plans to share the source code (or perhaps I missed it)?
clacke
@warrows github.com/gugray/rss-parrot
It posts a reply to the person who requested a feed, a public reply, so that's stored on any server that follows the service account.
warrows
@twilliability is it closed source, will it stay so? Is it free, will it stay so? What data does it collect? Obviously websites addresses and RSS Flux, does it keep a link to the profile making the request?
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