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24 alternatives to Extract an RSS feed from almost anything
Howdy! RSSfeedASAP scratches my own itch. I run a regional podcasting directory which gets dozens of messy submission for podcasts. Often they don't even include an xml file and me being a good samaritan I sometimes do the manual work and find it myself. I got tired of that manual work and decided to build a microapp. RSSfeedASAP is this app and I decided to release it in case someone else finds any use in it.
RSSfeedASAP extracts RSS feeds from websites and online content that don't provide direct feed links. Built for podcast directories, content aggregators, and anyone needing to convert web content into RSS format, it… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Extract an RSS feed from almost anything launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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RSS feeds for arbitrary websites, using CSS selectors.
2021 · feed-me-up-scotty.vincenttunru.com · its alternatives →
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Generate a website for your podcast from your RSS feed
2022 · transistor.fm · its alternatives →
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I developed a small tool to find RSS feeds for websites. You can try it out here: https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder In >90% of cases the standard way of checking meta tags is enough to find the feeds. But my goal for this tool is that it finds feeds regardless if they're linked somewhere or not. That if this feed finder doesn't find a feed, no feed exists. It's a big goal and admittedly not there yet, but it does a few things that are a step in that direction. * Checks meta tags of parent pages (sometimes the article itself doesn't have the meta tag, but the main…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Partially inspired by recent discussions on HN and other places. I've made a single-focus site to introduce your friends/colleagues/neighbours/family to RSS and web feeds. https://www.youneedfeeds.com/ The site is meant to give the elevator pitch for feeds, show a newbie what feeds are and how to use them, set them up with a reader, and give them some nice starter content if they want it. So much tastemaking and newsmaking power is concentrated in the hands of Facebook/Reddit/Twitter, but I'm convinced it's because much of the general populace doesn't…
2018 · its alternatives →
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Create a shareable podcast playlist with an RSS feed 🎧
2016 · podcast.app · its alternatives →
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Hi all! Excited to share rss2newsletter after completing dev work for the initial release. The idea for this project came out of necessity, as I wanted to share my articles via email newsletter. I was looking for a super minimal, lightweight, and open source solution, and when none existed, I decided to create one. For any sizable number of email recipients, a popular platform like Mailchimp will easily cost you hundreds or even thousands per month in per-contact fees. rss2newsletter, on the other hand, allows you to use Amazon SES, so you can reach your audience at pennies on the dollar.…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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RSS Brain▲139I wrote an RSS reader called RSS Brain recently. The motivate is the current RSS readers either don't sort articles by priority, which makes it hard to read posts from HackerNews and Reddit, or sort it with some "smart" algorithm which I don't trust. I also like the Google News feature that can show related story from different source, but the sources are not configurable and the algorithm is not transparent either. So with RSS Brain, I implemented these features: * Recommend related articles from the feeds of your choice. It's backed by ElasticSearch and the algorithm is described on RSS…
2022 · rssbrain.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve been using RSS readers for decades, but they’ve started feeling more and more like a chore. Something about the inbox/to-do list design, counts of unread items, managing teams and complex filtering rules... I realized they add to my stress level instead of reducing it. I’ve also come to rely on social media for discovery – hearing about new ideas, tools, papers, people, etc., but I’m so tired of the ads, spam, addictiveness, and toxicity. Apricot is my attempt to distill the best of both worlds. It’s a web app where users subscribe to feeds like an RSS reader then see new items as…
2023 · app.theapricot.io · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I built a tool a few years ago called RSS Lookup(https://www.rsslookup.com/) and recently made a few UI and feed detection updates to it. It's free, and allows you to paste any website URL and it automatically searches for feeds via meta tags, fallback paths, and hardcoded feeds for some popular sites. It's also open-source(https://github.com/mratmeyer/rsslookup), has no ads, and doesn't track any URLs(uses Cloudflare Turnstile for abuse and Plausible for analytics). Max
2025 · rsslookup.com · its alternatives →
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Feedibus▲91A modern RSS newsreader, powered by machine learning
2021 · feedibus.app · its alternatives →
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2020 · weloverss.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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2010 · dambr.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! While working on a project that involves frequently parsing a lot of feeds, I needed a fast JavaScript-based parser to extract specific fields from feed namespaces. Existing Node packages were either too slow or merged all feed formats, losing namespace information. So I decided to write it myself and created this NPM package with a simple API. Feedsmith supports all feed formats and many popular namespaces, including: Podcast, Media, iTunes, Dublin Core, and more. It can also parse and generate OPML files. I am currently adding support for more namespaces and feed generation for RSS,…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I've been working on this new open-source project called [name-redacted]. It is a simple and powerful RSS reader for the web with a modern UI, PWA support, and a built-in article reader. Visit it at [link-redacted] View our GitHub repo at [link-redacted]
2024 · its alternatives →
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Parse RSS, Atom and JSON feeds in Go. Contribute to mmcdole/gofeed development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · rsspusher.eu01.aws.af.cm · its alternatives →
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FeedPress▲13RSS analytics and podcast hosting for bloggers & podcasters
2015 · app.feedpress.com · its alternatives →
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