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OPML representation #14

Open vincode-io opened 1 year ago

vincode-io commented 1 year ago

It would be great if this list were published as an OPML file. That way users could import them into their RSS reader and decide which ones they want to keep.

This would also enable me to add it to Feed Compass. Feed Compass is an open source application that allows users to preview blogs and then subscribe to them in their RSS reader if they like the blog.

uxai commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestion, I do believe this is similar to issue #10. I will definitely look into this as well, its the first time I've heard of OPML, so it will be an interesting topic for me to look into :)

vincode-io commented 1 year ago

OPML is the standard for cataloging RSS feeds. It is used by almost all RSS readers to import and export your feed subscriptions. This allows the users to import and export their feeds to back them up or to move to a new RSS reader.

If you produced an OPML file, users could import that into their RSS reader of choice to sample and review the blogs. The ones they like, they can keep. The ones they don't, they can delete.

If you have access to a Mac, I have written a program, Feed Curator, to make it easy to maintain an OPML file. You don't even need to know the URL of the blog's RSS feed. You just need to enter the home page of the blog and the app does the rest.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/16448027/225421437-0504460c-c4a1-4c02-960b-97d9bd54da5b.mov

There might be something similar for Windows or Linux. I don't know. Even if you have to build the OPML file in a text editor, it isn't that hard.

Once you have your OPML file, you just commit it to your Git repo like any other file. Then in your README.md, you link to the raw version of the file.