FYI for the past few days I’ve been trialling OpenRSS.org as a twitter-to-RSS bridge. Seems to work well. I would happily donate to this free service but they make it hard to even find how to donate, so I guess they must be doing fine.
https://openrss.org/
Seems it’s able to convert a lot of other sites to RSS also.
awesome project! openrss.org seems to be from
https://github.com/markcellus
he may not have capacity to tie in with newblur, but it’s worth asking, @samuelclay
https://openrss.org/contact
Yes it works well. However, it’s not the fastest twitter-to-RSS bridge.
I’ve more recently switched to using nitter, via the main public instance at nitter.net and it’s faster (the “Story” and “Original” views to work as intended, and are way snappier than loading those views direct from twitter). So, in total, using nitter as the twitter-to-RSS bridge is a solution that is actually superior to the now-broken twitter-to-RSS bridge that was built-in to NewsBlur.
So @samuelclay , what would be superb is if there was a facility to bulk-change the URL’s of feeds matching a certain Regex. That would make switching between nitter instances a breeze. In addition to newsblur automatically transforming newly added twitter feeds to a corresponding nitter URL, that is.
Two questions: is there a bulk way to export who I follow on Twitter to set up nitter feeds?
Or, on a different thought, could we all individually get hobbyist API keys for Twitter and configure them in NewBlur. (Obviously, some development would be required there.)
is there a bulk way to export who I follow on Twitter to set up nitter feeds?
Not presently. @samuelclay (or anyone with the programming chops) could modify newsblur to provide a facility for bulk-transforming the “Site Settings” for each twitter feed in a user’s account over to nitter URL’s.
In the meantime, to use nitter as your twitter-to-RSS bridge in newsblur, you can manually go into the “Site Settings” for each twitter feed you have already configured in Newsblur (which won’t be currently working) and change it yourself.
The process is straightforward. You change your existing “Site Settings” for each twitter feed as per the following example pattern:
RSS/XML URL: Change https://twitter.com/AlessioUrban to https://nitter.net/AlessioUrban/rss
Website URL: Change https://nitter.net/AlessioUrban to https://nitter.net/AlessioUrban
Done!
could we all individually get hobbyist API keys for Twitter and configure them in NewBlur. (Obviously, some development would be required there.)
I’d rather protest the change by twitter by circumventing it.
That said, I just tried switching a few more twitter feeds I follow in Newsblur over to using nitter.net RSS feeds, and Newblur is choking with the error “There was a problem trying to add this site. Please try a different URL.”
…However, the URL is definitely correct (checked the URL via my browser and it returned the RSS feed)
@samuelclay any idea what the dealio might be?
Update: As timing would have, Newsblur went down just before I tried to switch a few more twitter follows over to nitter. So that is probably why the latest batch failed to convert
FWIW, I downloaded an OPML file for my Newsblur account (contains all of the feed URLs), used a text editor to search and replace the twitter URLs, trimmed the OPML file to contain only the changed feeds, then imported the file back into Newsblur. That took much less time than manually changing even a handful of feeds via newsblur’s interface.