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Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed

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148 points mustaphah | 3 comments | 19 Sep 25 21:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.7s | source
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kschaul ◴[19 Sep 25 22:20 UTC] No.45307422[source]▶
Glad you’re find the tool interesting! A short blog post behind it: https://kschaul.com/post/2023/04/16/feedmaker-quickly-genera...

And the GitHub url (hopefully easy to host your own instance): https://github.com/kevinschaul/feedmaker

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1. mustaphah ◴[19 Sep 25 23:33 UTC] No.45308068[source]▶
Looks like you're hosting this on fly.io - PAYG model. You could probably host this for free on Cloudflare Workers; 100k requests/day on the free tier; static content (the homepage) is free & unlimited.

Edit: The catch is the 10ms CPU cap per request - you'd need a super lean implementation. Django's too heavy for that.

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2. 0cf8612b2e1e ◴[20 Sep 25 00:09 UTC] No.45308349[source]▶
Python alone is many milliseconds to start. Unless they give you some allowances for interpreter overhead.
3. mustaphah ◴[20 Sep 25 00:29 UTC] No.45308495[source]▶
Well, someone already did with JS: https://github.com/ProfessorManhattan/rss-worker