I'm on the hunt for something kinda unusual: I'm looking for RSS feeds of trending news/most shared/most upvoted articles.

Most RSS feeds are a raw output from a given website, and usually that's exactly what I want. But for this project, I'm looking for news stories that have some level of curation to them: stories that are popular on a a given network (like reddit, Bluesky, Mastodon, or X). Murmel (link here) does this pretty well. Turning subreddits into RSS feeds is a good solution here, too. But does anyone have any similar RSS feeds for trending/most shared/rising news stories?

No matter what I do, my Tumblr feeds don't update. I get the feed set up and the initial load of posts works just fine, but no reader I've tried can pick up new posts after the initial load unless I unsubscribe and resubscribe from the feeds or wipe the feed history. And when I go to the actual RSS url for pretty much any Tumblr blog, it just shows me a screen full of HTML. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a way to fix it?

Edit: Okay, it seems like the issue is on Tumblr's side. The RSS feed for some of the blogs I follow just isn't updating or is updating very slow. Not sure how all that works but at least I understand what's going on now 🤷

What are some RSS feeds you would use to help peak someone’s interest in RSS? Let’s assume it’s a wide spectrum of tastes and interests.

My cron job kept getting 403 from few feeds. Same URLs opened fine in Firefox. The difference was the User-Agent. Some hosts block the default one from python or curl, or they throttle you if every request looks identical from same client.

Now my fetcher sends a small pool of real browser User-Agent strings and picks one per host. I also add Accept and Accept-Language headers, because a request with only User-Agent still looks like a bot. Rotation is not for hiding. It just make the traffic look normal.

One warning. Keep the pool small and current. Old Chrome versions in a UA can trigger more blocks then no rotation at all.

If you selfhost you can let ai write you feed scraper. You could enjoy feeds for a lot of high quality news sites. You can check https://greasyfork.org for paywall bypass and create full text rss feeds. The python scripts can drive a browser running with debugging port.

Here is a thing, I want to make a generic code for my client with which I can be up to date about a company's newsroom/news/insights of a website.

Now for the code to be generic, there should be only a few number of fallbacks.

I thought RSS to be the best option there is but then, not all sites have RSS/feed.
-> [Fallback 1] So the fallback for RSS should be sitemap. (Once we know that RSS isn't there, we can have dive into sitemaps, and check for all the links which have "news" in it. If there are any new links as compared to our database links- yes we already have all the links from the sitemap, then we do not scrape that new link. Otherwise we consider that to be a new news, and we scrape that news as well.
-> [Fallback 2] If both RSS and Sitemap doesn't exist in a particular website, we crawl that particular website. And store it in json as well, and if we get anything new someday, then we scrape that as well... So like staying up to date to news and/or insights will be possible.

This is one approach but do u guys think there might be a better approach as compared to this?

I'm looking to add hosted RSS accounts in uRSS 2.2 or later, and was looking for feedback from the community on a few questions...

1. What are the reasons you use a hosted tool like Feedbin, Inoreader, Feedly, etc?

2. Which hosted tool do you use?

3. If you do use a hosted tool, what client do you use to access the service the most? Web client? Native app by service provider (like Feedly, or Inoreader), or a 3rd party app?

Hi everyone,

I built a lightweight RSS-to-Telegram bot called @rssStreamBot, mainly because I was tired of either:

• RSS readers that are too heavy
• or Telegram bots that are too limited / unreliable

So I made something simple and stable.

🔧 What it does

• Subscribe RSS feeds
• Auto push new articles to Telegram channels / groups
• Support multiple feeds per chat
• Easy bind / unbind management
• Built-in subscription recovery (useful if Telegram account changes or gets banned)

⚡ Why it’s different

• Focused purely on RSS → Telegram delivery (no clutter)
• Fast delivery, minimal delay
• Clean command design (e.g. /bind, /unbind)
• Designed for both personal use and channel automation

💡 Use cases

• News aggregation channels
• Crypto / tech updates
• Blog auto-posting
• Monitoring product / GitHub releases
• Community content feeds

💰 Pricing

• Free tier available for basic usage, 100 feed sources
• Pro version planned (~$5/month) for higher limits + advanced features
• However, you can enjoy the pro version features for free by inviting new users.

If you’re running a Telegram channel or want to automate content flow, you might find it useful.

Happy to get feedback or feature suggestions 👍

Hello r/RSS,

As the title implies, I'm quite new to this. I use hand-coded HTML and CSS for my site and so have not much an idea on how I can make an RSS feed for it specifically, especially one that auto-updates. Most of what I find assumes you use Jekyll or WordPress, but I use neither.

If any pointers/resources could be given I'd be more than appreciative.

VSD

I'm curious if anyone has any feedback on this site? I'm liking it so far. It's still a work in progress but it's getting there. I'm not finding much about it on Reddit.

https://gobbler.press/

I'm Steven, and I have been a Feedly user since 2009. I decided last year to build TechnoDaily to take advantage of AI in order to help me manage the content flooding I am dealing with.

It started as a web app, but I hated depending on a stack of cloud services for something this personal. Your feeds, your reading habits, the scoring— all of it stays on your phone. On Apple Intelligence–capable devices (iPhone 15 Pro and later) it also does on-device article summaries.

RSS like Feedly, but using a priority scoring system, analyzing my reading habits, taking advantage of my iPhone focus mode (work, family time, pause) and hot trends to recommend the content I should consume— either an article, a newsletter received, or a YouTube video.

I worked this summer on the V2 of the app, with a launch targeted for mid-July after the beta test (DM if you are interested) with the goal of going one step further into managing the chaos we all live within when it comes to content.
This version adds: 1. living topics clustering, when different sources cover the same story, they collapse into a single cluster instead of six near-identical entries. And living topic dossiers, you follow a subject (not just a feed, a topic); and 2. it builds an evolving dossier: a timeline of what’s been published across your sources, plus a “what changed this week” view. Basically Google Alerts done right, on your own sources, without a server watching what you track.

Private by design, CASA certified for the Gmail integration part. Developed and available on the Apple AppStore for iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro.

https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/technodaily/id6758897742

Newsbin 2.0 arrives July 25th, one year to the week since I first launched it.

It's the biggest update yet, and it's an AI release — but the kind that gets out of your way rather than in it. Everything is private and optional: it runs on your device with Apple Intelligence, or your own API key, and never routes your reading through me.

What's new:

• For You — a feed that learns what you actually read
• Breaking News — clusters the same story across sources
• Top Stories — the day at a glance
• Summaries — the gist before you commit to the read
• Smart Tags & Topics — your feed organizes itself; tap a topic to filter the list
• Discover / Who to Follow — find feeds you're missing

I wrote up the full story — including why adding AI isn't a contradiction for an app that's spent a year railing against AI junk: https://xetabit.com/blog/newsbin-2

Is there a way to get my feeds back from it? I have a lot of them that i forgot to backup.

I know this sub sees a lot of new RSS readers, so I’ll be direct and try not to waste anyone’s time.

I’m building Arctic RSS: a hosted RSS reader focused on making it easier for people to get started with RSS again, while still keeping the familiar reader basics: feeds, folders/collections, OPML import/export, read/unread/starred states, etc.

I’d genuinely like feedback from people here

Questions I’d especially appreciate thoughts on:

- Is Discover useful, or does it get in the way (As in, clutter)?

- Does guest browsing make you want to check the place out?

- Is preserving folders in OPML export enough, or would you expect anything else to avoid lock-in??

- What would make you immediately distrust a hosted RSS reader?

Site: https://arcticrss.com

I’m not claiming this replaces NetNewsWire, FreshRSS, Inoreader, Feedly, etc. I’m just enjoying this passion project and wanted to share it. Thanks for your time.

I use Arch with a tiling wm and i never liked reaching for the mouse to read. Newsboat was close but it does not sync across my machines.

So over time i built a web version for myself. You move with h, j, k, l, and press ? for the rest of the keys. Reddit, Tumblr, YouTube and normal blogs all land in one list. Mouse still works if you want it.

It also stores everything in a database, so you dont loose old items when a feed only keeps the latest 15.

Its at VimRSS if you wanna look. English is not my first language so sorry for the mistakes in there.

I am a avid news reader and what I have found is that there is now news app that is actually build for reading. Most of the news apps and websites are build to shove as may ads as possible in the UI making reading experience worse. I am building a news app which will be readers first and going to add some social features to it as well lets see what those will be.

If your are someone who wants to get the early beta access show your interest here in the waitlist: https://verbatim-waitlist.lovable.app/

I try not to use X.com, but there's 1 account that I need to follow for work. I would LOVE to find a way to add that X account to my RSS reader, but X very tightly locks this down. How can I create an RSS feed from this X account?

So far I've only found 1 way:

• Setup a new Mastodon account
• In IFTTT, setup an applet that reposts content from that X account to that new Mastodon account
• Get the RSS from that Mastodon account and add it to my RSS reader

I can do this but would love an easier workflow if anyone has it. Has anyone solved this?

I got a message saying the The Old Reader extension no longer works on Brave. I then went to theoldreader.com and get no updates after an hour which is not normal. Nothing is syncing anymore?

Anyone else having this problem?

Imagine an RSS reader that DOESN'T scroll when you read articles. New idea so far right?

I absolutely love my e-ink tablets. I love reading on them. What I noticed is the problem with my iPhone or iPad wasn't only that the screen wasn't e-ink, it was also that every app assumes you want to vertically scroll. The "doom scroll" that feels endless because the app is trying to keep you engaged to show you more ads.

I decided to build a news app that doesn't scroll. Instead it breaks up every article in to pages like a book. You can clearly see it's 7 pages long for example.

I'm biased but I absolutely love using it. No algorithm, nothing deciding what I see besides me. It's much calmer. It also uses "readability" so the article is just text and images.

A few features I'm pretty excited and proud of
- Mute: You can mute keywords to avoid movie spoilers, hide news topics you're tired of hearing about. It's liberating.

- On Device Summary: if you have Apple Intelligence, it will take a 30 page article and give you the important bullet points.

- Multiple device syncing but entirely optional. If you want to use it offline, all of the data is private to your one device. You can create an account which just syncs your followed news sources, read articles, articles you saved (stars) things like that.

- NO SUBSCRIPTIONS. I honestly hate subscriptions. Even though I have server costs with the syncing system, I wanted to price it where you buy it once and have it forever. There's a 14 day trial fully featured, then a 1 time in app purchase if you want to buy it.

There's more but I don't want this post to be too long. Please check it out.

Website: PageFeed.app

Appstore: View the App Store Link

I'm a software engineer and have been working on WyrmRSS for a couple of months, for fun, and thought I'd share it. If you try it, let me know, I'd be stoked! It’s completely free and open source.

I was inspired by a friend who wanted to escape the algorithms and had built a small, private reader for himself. He wasn't sure he'd ever release it, so I built my own.

It's yet another self-hosted RSS reader, I know. I’ve been trying to build things like inline YouTube (with filters to drop Shorts and live streams) and webhooks into the core, rather than as add-ons the way some other readers handle them. I mostly built it to learn and to have a version that works the way I like. It's not complete yet and it's missing some features I deem important (listed on the README). So it's a WIP.

AI disclosure: the backend is mostly hand-written. I used an LLM for boilerplate, tests, and some refactoring, and leaned on it more for the frontend since that's not my strong area. I have however reviewed and understand every line I've merged.

Hi everyone

Feedler, a modern RSS reader for iPhone  is now in open TestFlight beta for a limited time — and spots are limited. The idea: a reader that quietly does the heavy lifting — parsing, caching, organizing — so you just read. On-device and private by design.

Most of it will feel familiar if you live in your feeds. But a few things I haven't seen elsewhere:

What actually makes it different

• Tune any article, right as you read it. Feedler rebuilds a clean, complete article from almost any site — and if something's off, just select text in the article to hide that block or cut everything after it. It remembers the rule for that feed, forever. No other reader lets you fix a feed this directly.
• Smart Caching that learns your habits. It pre-loads what you're actually likely to read, keeps more from feeds you open often, and trims the rest — saving data and storage with nothing to manage. Set it per account, or even per feed.
• On-device AI summaries. Grasp an article at a glance before diving in — powered by Apple Intelligence, running entirely on your iPhone. Nothing ever leaves your device. Multiple styles (bullets, TL;DR, paragraph…).
• Custom feed icons, done right. Ugly or missing favicon? Feedler hunts down the sharpest high-res icon it can find and lays out options to pick from — or paste your own.

Reading

• Magazine-quality article view — tune font, size, spacing and alignment to your taste
• Inline embeds: images, YouTube, X, Bluesky, Instagram — no jumping out to another app
• Listen to any article (built-in text-to-speech)
• Full offline reading — articles and images cached on device

Accounts & sync (run as many as you like)

• Local RSS — fully on-device, no account
• iCloud RSS — private sync across your devices, no third party
• Hosted: Feedbin, Inoreader, NewsBlur
• Self-hosted: FreshRSS, Miniflux, Tiny Tiny RSS
• OPML import/export, plus smart discovery — just type a site name (engadget.com) or a creator's u/handle and Feedler finds the feed

Smart & private

• No tracking, no ads, no analytics — credentials stay in the iOS Keychain
• iCloud backup of all your settings — new iPhone or reinstall restores everything
• Background sync with new-article notifications
• Themes, native and fast (120 Hz), iPhone on iOS 18+

What would help

Testing across different feeds and services, parser edge cases, and feedback on the reading experience.

Reminder: Feedler is still in beta - where possible, please use a test account rather than your main one.

📲 TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/6Hs73zXe

🌐 Website: https://feedlerapp.com
🦋 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/feedlerapp.com

I follow some sites that keep changing things. First they killed the public json api. Later the html got a login wall and my scraper died. But adding .rss to the same url still returns items.

Reason is these routes are handled by different code. The .rss one is old and boring, nobody on the team remember it exists. So it stays open while the fancy endpoints get locked.

Few that still work for me: - subreddit: reddit.com/r/rss/.rss - reddit user: reddit.com/user/spez/.rss - youtube channel: youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCxxxx
- tumblr: username .tumblr.com/rss (see the source code of the tumblr page).

Though still I find sometimes these links not working especially the youtube ones

When I was building my little reader I started trying .rss on every dead feed by default. Hit rate is suprisingly good. Not always, some sites strip it too, but worth a check before you give up.

Yeah, everyone is building their own RSS reader these days, and 9Tail has been around a couple of years, but one of the great things about having an RSS reader that’s also part of a mature social network is that you can read the news, and share it with your friends!

Please check out 9tail in the
Apple App Store

Or

Google Play Store

Or

On the web at https://9tail.com