OPML import

[erlend-sh]

OPML is a widely used standard used for exporting/importing RSS, i.e. subscription feeds for blogs or podcasts.

Part of what Weird does is reclamation of our personal data from other sources out of our control.

I can link weird up to my Mastodon and Bluesky accounts and keep a locally stored record of all my posts, in case I wake up to a discontinued cloud service.

We wanna do that kind of data importing for a whole bunch of different sources. One obvious import source is OPML.

I consume a lot of rss articles and podcasts, so I’d like to start putting that information into Weird. Weird will eventually let me mash my OPML data together with a bunch of other people, so we can discover new learning resources amongst ourselves in a discovery network.

Podcast import

I want to:

1. Import an OMPL file to a new page on my personal Weird page
2. The imported data should be turned into individual Links, one for each podcast show.

In a future iteration we will connect this data with global indexes like PodcastIndex and ListenNotes.

Erlend’s podcasts OPML

I would’ve uploaded the actual OPML file but github didn’t let me. ``` ```

Feed-reader import

I want to:

1. Import an OMPL file to a new page on my personal Weird page
2. The imported data should be turned into individual Links, one for each blog feed.

The result would be a blogroll.

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References

• https://github.com/scripting/opmlPackage
• https://github.com/imdj/opml-editor
• https://github.com/ralexander-phi/rss-blogroll-network
• https://www.manton.org/2024/03/11/recommendations-and-blogrolls.html