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If you host a feed reader (or just use one a lot), Morss is amazing (morss.it)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Got the suggestion from a comment yesterday (I'll link when I find it) and I'd been using FreshRSS on it's own for a long time. Morss is a godsend for feeds that like to give you only the headline. It's also especially awesome for the Hackernews and Lobsters feeds because it will expand the posted links for you which I appreciate a great deal. Hosting it takes like 3 seconds and it's so worth it.

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[–] Someology 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

FreshRSS already has web scraping abilities, and can grab the entire story for truncated feeds almost all of the time, if you add the css container class to the settings for the feed. What does Morss do beyond this?

EDIT After looking, it seems as if it does save the step of looking to see what the CSS class is. But I don't like the fact that all my RSS feeds then go through and are dependent on one single third party. Seems to somewhat defeat the point of self hosting. I'll just stick with FreshRSS alone.

EDIT AGAIN I see now that it is open source, but I still don't see value beyond what FreshRSS can already do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for this. I've been digging into RSS after I exited Reddit was considering self hosting because most of the services I found don't do what I want. What client do you use with your FreshRSS instance for Android?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same setup as above and on android I use FeedMe. The Freshrss web app is also very good. ReadYou is still being developed but worth keeping an eye on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the reply. I got FreshRSS setup yesterday and found FeedMe as well. Seems to be working well and it has enough options for the interface to keep me happy. The list view is similar enough to my old Reddit Sync browsing experience that my muscle memory doesn't have to work too hard.

[–] Someology 1 points 1 year ago

I'm glad you're liking it! It's been years since I tried FeedMe. Maybe it's time I gave it another look.

[–] Someology 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To be honest, I've tried a few apps, but I tend to just use it through Firefox. Here is a screenshot on Android, in Firefox, with the Theme Mapco By: Thomas Guesnon:

[–] techgearwhips 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have FreshRSS setup and running good. The only thing I can't figure out is how to scrape with xpath for websites that don't have rss. As I don't know how to code in Python or whatever language you need to know for xPath. I get nothing from Google regarding this. Is there a write-up somewhere for this? Any help would be appreciated.