I use it for news aggregation with Nextcloud news. Also for podcasts and PeerTube channels. Anyone using RSS for other things?
I use RSS to watch YouTube videos. I collect the ULRs of the videos I want to watch in a text file using my feed reader (Newsboat). In the evening a script transfers the file to my TV computer and fetches the videos with yt-dlp.
To play the videos I use another script, which plays and then trashes the video files in a loop.
Pros: no ads, no buffering videos during playback, plays videos without interaction (like TV), can collect video URLs over day, don’t have to bother with YouTube’s user interface, cookies etc.
I like that idea! Any chance you would be able to share the script or the general workflow?
I just wrote down simplified versions of my scripts. Then I clicked the wrong button to exit the markdown preview and now it’s all gone. I’ll have to drink a beer now, sorry. If you have any specific questions, I’ll answer them gladly.
Parent’s is more complicated, but this simple script may be a good place to start. In this case, I follow a channel that posts new music videos for discovery. This automatically downloads (just the audio) using yt-dlp to a local directory. It could easily be modified to download the video (just change the -f flag). I run this with cron once a day.
https://gist.github.com/line72/ceef5402881d6d3ae732e7b7c9cbf01b
I self-host FreshRSS and use it for:
- Blogs
- News-Sites
- Piped (YouTube) channels
- GitHub releases
FreshRSS here, too. Tech, State and local news all nicely sorted where I can firehose it or just see small sections.
+1 for FreshRSS. It’s excellent and has been very easy to host for years.
I use this lightweight reader by the same dev who makes Bookstack. Just for news though. I use Audiobookshelf for podcasts.
What news do you add to it?
Nothing special, just WaPo, NPR, NYT, etc. I just prefer aggregating all those sites instead of going to them individually when I some that kind of news.
Thanks for explaining!
Blogs, news sites, YouTube channels of a few favorite music artists, web comics, etc.
I subscribe to:
- Blogs I find interesting
- Blogs of personal friends
- Projects’ blogs and announcements
- Changes to codebase I need to closely monitor (e.g. things I host)
- Videos, mostly on YouTube, but also my PeerTube feed
- Web comics
Yes. I use it on my phone. I use AntennaPod for pod casts, and Flym for textual news feeds. Antenna pod in particular is really nice. I finding having this sort of content on a mobile device best.
I use Feedly after Google reader died. Pretty much only use it for webcomics.
I don’t. Google reader died, and all of the blogs put themselves on social media.
The walled garden is almost complete.
Nothing unusual with my feed - news, tech, science, environment. What I may do differently is I set up a filter on Mastodon so any of my feeds are only seen in rss. I really don’t need to see a Wired article 6 times.
For qbittorrent for sites I know I will want their stuff.
I use newsboat for all my RSS needs, which is pretty much my main entry point for a lot of things:
- News sites
- Various blogs
- Youtube channels
- Podcasts
- I used to have some subreddits in there too, but those were ritually deleted after June 12th of course
Youtube channels (I unsubscribed from everything on my YouTube account, hardly ever login, and only use RSS to follow the channels I want)
This is the way to do it. I can’t stand youtube’s interface and its recommendations, auto play, and other anti-features frustrate me. I find that on youtube, when I go look at a channel, I often can’t figure out which video is the most recent, and really struggle to see figure out what I’ve watched and what I haven’t.
Using RSS let’s me see when there is a new video posted just from the channels I am interested in. I don’t have to go hunting. FreshRSS will watch it through youtube-nocookie.com, but I often find using yt-dlp is better experience, especially for anything longer than 5 minutes.
Would you mind sharing some of your favorite blogs and webcomics?
tinytinyrss
@privsecfoss Newsboat and feedly
Blogs, local news sources, weather sources. Some gov.uk reports. Although I’ve tried several clients I keep falling back to Thunderbird and Aggregator (simple Android client).