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fossar / selfoss

multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application
https://selfoss.aditu.de
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I cannot add a website rss #1395

Closed teragoodness closed 1 year ago

teragoodness commented 1 year ago

I am having issues adding the Dextrava website RSS feed on Selfoss. How can I go about it?

jtojnar commented 1 year ago

You would click the Settings button (cloud with arrow icon), then Add source button on the top of the page. Select RSS Feed as the Type, and then paste the feed URL to the URL feed:

Flow of adding a feed

Or are you having some specific issue?

desbest commented 1 year ago

You don't need to know what the specific RSS feed URL is, for any specific website in question, as nowadays that is embedded into the metadata (or meta tag) of the web page that you visit.

Just copy the URL of the website you're currently visiting, from the address bar, into your RSS reader of choice. The RSS reader should automatically fetch the corresponding RSS feed URL from the web page's URL.

It'll probably look for something like this.

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Feed for petefreitag.com" href="/rss/" />

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom Feed for petefreitag.com" href="/rss/" />

For example, the website Dextrava, they should have already included such HTML code in their web page output source. If you press Ctrl + U while the website is open, you should find code like the above".

jtojnar commented 1 year ago

Closing due to lack of response. Please reopen if the issue persists.