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Show HN: Fountain of RSS – 30k active feeds and code for sourcing more (github.com)
2 points by tfederman 433 days ago
Recently I was searching for a very large collection of RSS feeds and didn't have luck finding an existing one.

I decided to see if they could be sourced reliably at any volume from the meta tags of a stream of links, which are easy to find. Long story short, that did work very well. I used the Bluesky firehose as the stream of links.

The repo has a script that narrows the firehose down to just a "fountain" of RSS feeds and their metadata. There's also a .tsv with about 30,000 entries I got from running the script on and off over a few days.

https://github.com/tfederman/fountain-of-rss/

p.s. What's good in the RSS tool/reader scene in 2025?
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toomuchtodo 433 days ago
Please consider pushing these into the Internet Archived on some cadence, compressed. Great work!

https://help.archive.org/help/collections-a-basic-guide/

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DIYgod 433 days ago
Great work, but in fact, you can get countless RSS feeds through [RSSHub](https://docs.rsshub.app/).
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tfederman 432 days ago
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.
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