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Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed

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148 points mustaphah | 4 comments | 19 Sep 25 21:14 UTC | HN request time: 1.841s | source
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crazygringo ◴[19 Sep 25 23:07 UTC] No.45307858[source]▶
I love this.

Has anyone tested to see if it works with Blogtrottr which will email you whenever there's a new item in an RSS feed?

Just since this doesn't seem like it even includes a date field in the RSS? And of course no guid. So I'm wondering how compatible it winds up being.

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1. kevincox ◴[19 Sep 25 23:17 UTC] No.45307940[source]▶
Dates shouldn't matter. The feed has ID elements which is what identify entries. Atom has no guid element. So I would expect this to work with any reader.
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2. edoceo ◴[20 Sep 25 04:24 UTC] No.45310347[source]▶
I wish they had concrete, accurate id and created_at. IIRC these attributes are fixed in AT.
3. crazygringo ◴[20 Sep 25 11:37 UTC] No.45312430[source]▶
But is this producing ID elements? And if so, based on what, since they don't seem to be coming from any CSS selectors? That's my question.
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4. kevincox ◴[20 Sep 25 11:41 UTC] No.45312458[source]▶
It seems to use the link as the ID based on clicking a few examples on the site. An ok option for this type of thing.