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Feeder already does this. Foe example, try inputting just "theverge.com" and Feeder will find the feed. It works if the site has included metadata where the feed is located. |
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Yes, the existing capability is good. But I think it would be nice if it does this even when the metadata is not included. There are many such cases, including those with no links e.g. (x) or those which have the RSS feed linked somewhere but not the metadata e.g. (x). If the idea sounds sensible I can try to work on it. |
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As a website owner that provides RSS feeds, I would not want an app going through all sorts of non-existent paths on my domain looking for rss feeds that arent there. It's a unnecessary use of a server's resources and can lead to the requests being blocked. If this is implemented, I'd be very careful, that it doesn't do more harm than good. |
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indeed. I've heard from more than one website owner about too many requests. people should learn to use established metadata conventions if they want users to find the feed |
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All right, thank you for explaining. I am surprised that just ~5 requests to different paths on a website would be registered as suspicious. I can open 5 different tabs of a website easily while exploring it. I guess it is different because it comes from an app rather than a browser? Or is it because the paths are not (necessarily) real pages on the domain? |
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One website owner contacted me after feeder made 2! requests too quickly to the server. |
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It would be nice if I could enter the URL of a website and be given the option to subscribe to its RSS feed, even if it is served at a subpage. Sometimes the RSS feed is not explicitly linked anywhere on a page and it's a pain to search for it manually.
The app just needs to search a few common URL suffixes such as /feed.xml, /feed, /rss...
An example implementation is this website whose source code is available here, I believe the logic is here.
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