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I consume most content via RSS. It certainly doesn’t feel dead to me.

There are ways to get Facebook, Instagram and Twitter content into RSS too if that’s what you need.



I am interested in getting these three as rss feeds, not that I use them very much, much getting them into a reader would help others very much.

a quick search shows some things saying public pages can be made RSS, but nothing like a bot that can suck in what your wall or whatever would be and push it into a feed that can be read otherwise.

Here's to hoping the twitter open api thing and the few stories about portable data and standard export for social etc come true.

Or maybe I need to dig deeper, but my gut feeling is/was - finding a way to pull these feeds would lead to the method being killed off by these walled gardens at some point so don't bother. I'd love to be wrong on this.


I use twitrss.me 's Perl code (https://github.com/ciderpunx/twitrssme) to generate custom RSS feeds of twitter users and twitter searches locally which my native feed reader (QuiteRSS) then displays.

I run a long bash file with lines like,

perl twitter_user_to_rss.pl NASAJPL > ~/limbo/www/rss/NASAJPL.xml

perl twitter_search_to_rss_wtf.pl "electrostatic sail" > ~/limbo/www/rss/electrostatic-sail.xml


I use RSS Bridge. You can host it yourself, which is probably better, or use a public instance.

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/blob/master/README....




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