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The RSS feed for websites missing it
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[Feature request] WebSub support #2395

Closed triatic closed 2 years ago

triatic commented 2 years ago

WebSub is a protocol that notifies RSS feed readers as soon as a new article is published on an RSS feed, without having to wait for the newsreader to poll the server on the scheduled interval. WebSub is a W3C Recommendation: https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/

Is there any scope for including WebSub into RSS bridge?

em92 commented 2 years ago

notifies RSS feed readers as soon as a new article is published on an RSS feed

In this case, RSS-Bridge instance must (1) know, which feeds are "websubed". To know this, RSS-Bridge must store somewhere those feeds. Currently the only thing it stores - cache related stuff.

After it finds out "websubed" feeds, instance must (2) periodically (for example, after cache times out) refetch upstream content.

At least 2 things to implement.

Is there any scope for including WebSub into RSS bridge?

IMHO, no. But it is discussible.

triatic commented 2 years ago

It's certainly not a trivial feature to implement and requires a "cost benefit analysis". One for discussion as you say.

triatic commented 2 years ago

On reflection I agree with @em92 and will close the issue.