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by mattbk1 1771 days ago
In a perfect world, all of those would work in an RSS reader.
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mastazi 1771 days ago
Yes, true. I wish Spotify artists/playlists or Youtube channels etc. had RSS.

So, the next idea would be a service that scrapes contents and builds an RSS feed.

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HKH2 1771 days ago
YouTube does have RSS.
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mastazi 1770 days ago
Thank you for pointing that out! I didn't know that until today. I also discovered that you can get RSS feeds from Reddit and a few other services (see my other comment in sibling sub thread)[1]. So, it sounds like I might be using RSS more.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28111810

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benrapscallion 1771 days ago
NewsBlur can do this for YouTube videos.
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mastazi 1771 days ago
Right! I was curious about how they do it and found out that Youtube actually has RSS feeds! At least according to this and a few other pages I've found https://danielmiessler.com/blog/rss-feed-youtube-channel/

Also, I can see that for other services like Twitter, there are indeed third party providers that can create feeds https://rss.app/blog/how-to-create-twitter-rss-feeds

Also Reddit subreddits and users: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss

For podcasts, just don't use Spotify and instead get the RSS feed of the podcast you like

So, yeah I'm now thinking of going to my RSS reader (which I currently only use for news) and adding all sorts of stuff.

Thank you for posting your comment :-)

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benrapscallion 1770 days ago
For reddit, you can also look at inline-reddit.com NewsBlur and a couple other RSS feed readers have built-in Twitter clients. You can also use rss bridge to get Instagram in your RSS feeds.
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mastazi 1770 days ago
Thank you! This is all very useful info!
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hopesthoughts 1768 days ago
They do. Well in a good RSS reader, anyway.
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