For HN, I use https://hnrss.github.io/
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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Good shout,I love hnrss. I used it (and similar projects) for several years before creating my own solution that would also include parsed article content, summaries, and comments into the RSS feed itself, as well as limiting the feed to a specified number of posts per day. There's a bit of overlap between projects, but each has things the other does not. I invite you to try this one to see if it might suit your needs.
Lemmy supports community RSS feeds natively; no need for a third party service to do it for you.
Here's the RSS feed for the [email protected] community: https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/selfhosted.xml
This is for the feed. OPs project is for "top", leveraging the up vote alg.
Reddit natively supports RSS feeds as well. The major feature here is comment support IMO.
I recently learned this as well. Thanks, Fediverse!
That is awesome. Was thinking about building a service which sends me the top X entries of a subreddit each week, but this is even better!
Thanks! Hope it works out for your use case.
This is really cool. Happy that you included the comments, as I find them often quite insightful. Look forward to spin this up and try it.
Edit: I know this is really hard to design and implement, but is it possible to bring in certain amount of child comments as-well? E.g., past a certain vote threshold or only X child comments deep. This might be a requirement that want to "move" the social media platform into the RSS feeder, but I want to entertain the idea.
Thanks! I think the child comments idea is pretty doable. I'll add it to the pile of things I'd like to add :)
Awesome <3
If you need feedback, testing etc. on this feature, I'm happy to help. Just pm me and I'll give you my github account.
Each of the platforms supported by this project exposes their own RSS feeds. Which is great!
My main motivation for creating this is that I prefer to interact with social aggregation websites in a low-volume way, so I let Upvote RSS surface only the most popular posts for those communities in my RSS reader of choice. I usually use the averagePostsPerDay filter so I can expect a certain amount of posts in my feeds per day; for popular communities that have hundreds of posts per day (news or whatever) I'll set it to something like 3 so that I see only the top 3 most upvoted posts per day.
On top of the score filtering, this project includes much more in the RSS than comes by default from these platforms:
- Embedded post media: videos, galleries, images
- Parsers to extract and embed article content and add featured images when the link is to a webpage
- AI article summaries based on the parsed webpage content
- Estimated reading time, score, and permalinks to the original post
- Top comments (this is one of the features I find most useful)
Yea other commenters don't seem to be making that "top" connection. This project is fantastic, thanks!
Appreciate it! In hindsight I should have put info about the top posts part of this in the title. I think most people don't read past the titles of posts.