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I'm trying to build up my feed using rss, but some sites just don't have it or doesn't let me filter through it as thoroughly as I want to.

I found this website, rss.app, that seems to be the solution to these problems, but I never really heard of this site before. Is there anything I should know about it?

I'm asking because the site requires you to make an account there to use it which asks for your name and email address and I don't want some random company spamming my email.

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[-] ryan213@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago

Isn't it a paid service? I think you get 7 days free trial.

[-] prototype_g2@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Yup. Its seems like it.

Funny how any mention of it being a paid service is only at the bottom of the page.

Does anyone know of any alternatives?

[-] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

RSS-Bridge is awesome
https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
There are public instances, but I think you could even self host it.
https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/ (A public instance)

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I'm hesitant to recommend but https://fed.brid.gy/ makes feeds from websites that may or may not have RSS feeds. It works well with Tumblr for example.

[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Tumblr blogs all have feeds.

[-] ryan213@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I set it up to test it out and then I got an email saying I only had 3 days left. LOL

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago

There are a few browser extensions that can detect RSS feeds, which can help when they're not advertised openly

Past that, this add-on was decent:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/feedbroreader/

If you're into self hosting:

https://freshrss.org/

[-] stinky@redlemmy.com -3 points 6 days ago

idk

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