Upvote RSS - Generate RSS feeds from social aggregation websites like Reddit, Lemmy, and Hacker News (github.com)
from johnny5w@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 04:26
https://lemmy.world/post/25418292

Upvote RSS is a self-hosted project I’ve been working on that generates RSS feeds from social aggregation websites like Lemmy, Reddit, and Hacker News. You can subscribe to Lemmy communities, subreddits, and Hacker News while filtering to only the top posts. It will embed Reddit post media (videos, images, galleries), and you can optionally include parsed article content, AI-generated summaries, top comments, and more. Here are some of the features:

Here’s the GitHub link if you’d like to give it a spin:

github.com/johnwarne/upvote-rss

And the preview website (not all options are available here):

www.upvote-rss.com

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neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 11 Feb 05:41 next collapse

Lemmy supports community RSS feeds natively; no need for a third party service to do it for you.

Here’s the RSS feed for the Selfhosted@lemmy.world community: https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/selfhosted.xml

Sparkega@sh.itjust.works on 11 Feb 07:13 next collapse

I recently learned this as well. Thanks, Fediverse!

xodoh74984@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 09:20 next collapse

Reddit natively supports RSS feeds as well. The major feature here is comment support IMO.

[deleted] on 11 Feb 15:11 next collapse

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fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com on 12 Feb 13:42 collapse

This is for the feed. OPs project is for “top”, leveraging the up vote alg.

johnny5w@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 15:45 next collapse

Each of the platforms supported by this project exposes their own RSS feeds. Which is great!

My main motivation for creating this is that I prefer to interact with social aggregation websites in a low-volume way, so I let Upvote RSS surface only the most popular posts for those communities in my RSS reader of choice. I usually use the averagePostsPerDay filter so I can expect a certain amount of posts in my feeds per day; for popular communities that have hundreds of posts per day (news or whatever) I’ll set it to something like 3 so that I see only the top 3 most upvoted posts per day.

On top of the score filtering, this project includes much more in the RSS than comes by default from these platforms:

  • Embedded post media: videos, galleries, images
  • Parsers to extract and embed article content and add featured images when the link is to a webpage
  • AI article summaries based on the parsed webpage content
  • Estimated reading time, score, and permalinks to the original post
  • Top comments (this is one of the features I find most useful)
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com on 12 Feb 13:43 collapse

Yea other commenters don’t seem to be making that “top” connection. This project is fantastic, thanks!

johnny5w@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 15:54 collapse

Appreciate it! In hindsight I should have put info about the top posts part of this in the title. I think most people don’t read past the titles of posts.

krash@lemmy.ml on 11 Feb 20:46 next collapse

This is really cool. Happy that you included the comments, as I find them often quite insightful. Look forward to spin this up and try it.

Edit: I know this is really hard to design and implement, but is it possible to bring in certain amount of child comments as-well? E.g., past a certain vote threshold or only X child comments deep. This might be a requirement that want to “move” the social media platform into the RSS feeder, but I want to entertain the idea.

johnny5w@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 21:22 collapse

Thanks! I think the child comments idea is pretty doable. I’ll add it to the pile of things I’d like to add :)

krash@lemmy.ml on 11 Feb 23:06 collapse

Awesome <3

If you need feedback, testing etc. on this feature, I’m happy to help. Just pm me and I’ll give you my github account.

Mora@pawb.social on 11 Feb 22:29 next collapse

That is awesome. Was thinking about building a service which sends me the top X entries of a subreddit each week, but this is even better!

johnny5w@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 23:34 collapse

Thanks! Hope it works out for your use case.

hempster@lemm.ee on 12 Feb 04:17 collapse

For HN, I use hnrss.github.io

johnny5w@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 16:00 collapse

Good shout,I love hnrss. I used it (and similar projects) for several years before creating my own solution that would also include parsed article content, summaries, and comments into the RSS feed itself, as well as limiting the feed to a specified number of posts per day. There’s a bit of overlap between projects, but each has things the other does not. I invite you to try this one to see if it might suit your needs.