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314 points edverma2 | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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suslik ◴[29 Aug 25 06:09 UTC] No.45060751[source]▶
Does anyone know if there is a self-hosted rss tool which exposes the data over API? I am interested in processing feeds programmatically but ideally would prefer not to bother with writing the update / subscription / parsing logic myself.
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righthand ◴[29 Aug 25 06:15 UTC] No.45060787[source]▶
You may be interested in tools that parse XML, I'm sure there are libraries for parsing RSS/Atom specifically. I'm not sure what you're asking exactly. You want a tool that will read RSS feeds then reformat the data to a different (JSON?) format or something and have an API endpoint return that converted format? But then for what purpose of transforming the XML(an already suitable format)?
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1. suslik ◴[29 Aug 25 06:46 UTC] No.45060984[source]▶
Yeah, perhaps I did not explain myself correctly (or, to be precise, explained myself incorrectly - I should not comment right after waking up). I want a tool that would take as input one or more RSS feeds and emits an aggregated RSS which I can then open in an RSS reader. I would then do certain things with the RSS entries (for instance, for some academic journals only the header of the article is emitted, so I can attach the full text or even an AI summary to it).