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samuelclay / NewsBlur

NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.
http://www.newsblur.com
MIT License
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Feature Request: Gemini Support #1407

Closed ecliptik closed 3 years ago

ecliptik commented 3 years ago

This is a request to add support for the Gemini Protocol, which is a newer Internet protocol more lightweight than http and require TLS.

Gemini sites have the ability to serve an XML feed similar to RSS, and the request is for Newsblur to understand gemini:// and read in a feed similar to an http:// site.

An example feed is here: gemini://rawtext.club/~ecliptik/_posts/feed.xml

samuelclay commented 3 years ago

This is a neat project. Between gopher and http but so far it's pretty tiny. I'm going to punt on this and honestly if you want NewsBlur to support a new protocol, make the change upstream in the feedparser repo.

kholbekj commented 2 weeks ago

Just want to comment here (as I also thought this would be a great feature), that feedparser rejected such an idea https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser/issues/266 based on the fact that this is doable with existing dependencies. I'm not deep enough in this to make a contribution, but just in case you ever reconsider :)