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A classic Internetgeist cartoon of a dog wearing a very fine hat, sitting before a table in a room that is completely engulfed in flames. In the first panel he is wordless, reflecting on the stark reality of his situation. In the second frame, his speech bubble has been edited to read "i should build my own rss reader".
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Jonathan Lamothe
Jonathan Lamothe
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@henry ✷ I've thought about it, but there are soooooo many variations on the protocol. It turns out that Really Simple Syndication is not actually that simple.
@henry ✷
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silverwizard
silverwizard
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@Jonathan Lamothe @henry ✷ Yeah - but there's like 4 required items - it's trivial to just support those. You can also take some of the really simple ones which generate you a boring html and then style it yourself and make a wrapper incredibly trivially.
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EndlessMason
EndlessMason
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@silverwizard
Just getting the if-modified-since and ratelimiting right can be a pita, especially when you're scheduling (say) fetching rss feeds from a pile of sources on youtube and they have an aggressive global rate limit

@me @henry

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Darcy Casselman
Darcy Casselman
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@silverwizard @me Sure, but there's a lot of broken-ass RSS/Atom out there. Is it hard to make it fault tolerant enough to get what you need? Probably not. Is this really what I want to spend my limited time on earth futzing with? No, it turns out.
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Darcy Casselman
Darcy Casselman
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@silverwizard @me For me, it was writing a central podcast server that could continue to listen to my podcast from a variety of devices. Which is something I'm pretty sure still doesn't exist. But it turns out I can just use my phone and it's fine.
@Jonathan Lamothe @silverwizard
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silverwizard
silverwizard
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@Darcy Casselman @Jonathan Lamothe Oh hey! I did that! What did you use?
I have a little nightly script that deletes the items not in my MPC playlist, then use castget to grab all my feeds, and then it takes everything not in the MPC playlist and then adds it to the end of the MPC playlist, then there's an icecast server to listen to it from everywhere! MPC is running in consume mode, so when a podcast episode ends, it gets removed from the playlist.
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Darcy Casselman
Darcy Casselman
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@silverwizard @me I was writing it from scratch in python. Which was my first mistake. Also, this was a decade ago.
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silverwizard
silverwizard
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@Darcy Casselman @Jonathan Lamothe When in doubt, cron and shell. It's all glue!

podcasts$ cat nightly.sh                                                                                                                                                                      
#!/bin/ksh
MPD_HOST='REDACTED@podcasts.obscuritus.ca'
cd /home/silverwizard/Podcasts
/home/silverwizard/remove.sh
/usr/local/bin/castget
/home/silverwizard/add.sh
podcasts$ 
podcasts$ cat add.sh                                                                                                                                                                          
#!/bin/sh
cd /home/silverwizard
/usr/local/bin/mpc update --wait
IFS='
'
for file in `./prune`
do
        echo "Adding " $file
        echo $file | /usr/local/bin/mpc add
done
podcasts$ cat remove.sh                                                                                                                                                                       
#!/bin/sh
cd /home/silverwizard
IFS='
'
for file in `./prune`
do
        rm -v Podcasts/$file
done
podcasts$ cat prune                                                                                                                                                                           
#!/bin/ksh
ls /home/silverwizard/Podcasts | sort > /home/silverwizard/current
mpc -f %file% playlist|sort | diff /home/silverwizard/current -|grep "[ogg|mp3|m4a|opus]"|grep "^<"|sed -e "s/^< //"
podcasts$
@Jonathan Lamothe @Darcy Casselman

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