DIYgod's comments

On: Show HN: Feedsmith — Fast parser & generator for RSS, Atom, OPML feed namespaces

[DIYgod]

Great job! I'm the creator of RSSHub (https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub) and Folo (https://github.com/RSSNext/Folo), I previously used rss-parser and encountered some issues, feedsmith has features that interest me, I'll give it a try!

[macieklamberski → DIYgod]

I was in the same situation — using rss-parser, but eventually faced with some issues.

It also turned out, its performance is not that good. In benchmarks, it's 4-5x slower. In my case, switching to Feedsmith almost doubled the overall parsing speed. This is including the fetching of feeds, which is the main bottleneck.

PS. Great projects, I know and follow both. :)

On: Show HN: Fountain of RSS – 30k active feeds and code for sourcing more

[DIYgod]

Great work, but in fact, you can get countless RSS feeds through [RSSHub](https://docs.rsshub.app/).

[tfederman → DIYgod]

That looks like a crowdsourced project for turning arbitrary sites into RSS which is very cool, but I don't see a way to get a large RSS data set out of it. And with about 5000 sources (I think) it's not as large as what I was hoping for, but it could be a good complementary source.

On: Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

[DIYgod]

I was dissatisfied with the available RSS readers, so I wrote my own called Follow https://follow.is . It addresses several key issues I faced:

- Optimized display for images, videos, audio, and notifications

- Specialized optimization for RSSHub, allowing subscriptions to thousands of websites that don't offer RSS, such as X, Instagram, and Telegram

- AI-powered translation, summaries, and a daily important news summary

[guerra → DIYgod]

Are you the maintainer of it? Amazing :) switched to it few months ago

On: Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds?

[DIYgod]

I can still use RSSHub to subscribe: https://rsshub.app/youtube/channel/UClOGLGPOqlAiLmOvXW5lKbw

It also supports more features: https://docs.rsshub.app/routes/social-media#youtube

[renegat0x0 → DIYgod]

In some other threads people write that invidious also may have problems. Eventually any bot can have problems when reading RSS feeds. Maybe the ones with API key will not have problems. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/1aduw8j/did_youtube_ki...

Google issue tracker: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/322736318?pli=1

Status: Won't Fix (Infeasible)

Unfortunately, there's nothing we could do here if it's the anti abuse mechanism that prevented the call to happen.

Also, this tracker isn't meant for that RSS issues. This issue tracker is mainly for Youtube APIs described in the link below:

[JamesNay → DIYgod]

... and you need an api key, if you want to run that service yourself