This post (RSS Beehive Yourself) follows-on from this evening’s talk entitled ‘Flipping the System’. Attached are a number of resources to help you find RSS links for your favourite websites. In addition, a big thanks to Sarah Plumley for giving me this opportunity to speak, and for those who don’t know, I was recently a guess on Sarah’s podcast.
I have divided this article into sections which are listed below:
How A RSS News Aggregator Works
Fluent Reader – RSS News Aggregator
Resource Materials
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How A RSS News Aggregator Works
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Consider each one of these pears to be a piece of content which a creator has produced. It might be a blog, a podcast, a video or even a cartoon image. Furthermore, they are ready for you to pick up, for free, and enjoy. You don’t need to eat them quickly – savour them – they are from the tree of knowledge!
One means of gaining access to the content is to go the box and collect the windfalls, perhaps book-marking the webpage. But you are busy and forget to check into the website, and you are missing-out on all those new and unbruised windfall pears.
So you don’t miss out, you employ a minion who lives in a RSS News Aggregator. You give him the directions to the box of windfalls and tell him to go forth into the metaverse and seek out new pears.
Later, a new pear drops into the box of windfalls, and the minion diligently puts it into his ruck-stack and heads home.
So one Sunday morning you are overjoyed to find a new episode.
Fluent Reader – News Aggregator
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Fluent Reader is a piece of open source software which is available on all platforms, that is to say Mac, PC, Android, iPhone. It is available from most places where you would get apps.
You can find Fluent Reader by following the links below:
On downloading the Fluent Reader you should see a screen similar to this. You need to find the cog icon and then click on it. (See image above)
This will take you to a new page where the first tab is titled ‘Source’.
Later on I will be showing you how to find a feed address, but let’s assume you have one.
On this new page (tab with ‘Source’) – paste the feed link into the box and press Add. (See image above)
Press the arrow to return back to the first page. (See image above)
Hey presto! You have Plumley Pod episodes.
The ‘Is It WP’ tool
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The ‘Is It WP’ tool will help you discover whether a website runs on WordPress. Please note that WP is the two-letter acronym for WordPress. In addition, this tool will tell you whether the site runs on Squarespace. Once you know whether a site runs on WordPress or Squarespace, you can choose the right RSS template (see the next section).
So, all you have to do is go to the ‘Is It WP’ website, put the url of the website you are investigating into the ‘analyze website’ box, and then press the button. Thereafter, you will get a yay or a nay as to whether the site runs on WordPress, or if it runs on Squarespace instead.
RSS Templates
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Below, in bold, are templates for creating RSS links for a particular platform.
Furthermore, I have created tables which contain RSS links to some of my favourite websites.
- To utilise the RSS links in these tables do the following:
- Right click on the ‘RSS link’, this generates a drop-down menu;
- Then choose ‘copy link address ‘ (i.e. URLs);
- Place the link into your News Aggregator (eg. Fluent Reader).
https://name.substack.com/feed
https://wordpress_website_name/feed
| Beehive Yourself! | RSS link |
https://website_name?format=rss
| Bob Moran – Bob’s Cartoons | RSS link |
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=THE_CHANNEL_ID_HERE
- Go to the home page of the YouTube channel you want the rss feed for, copy the web address.
- Then go to commentpicker dot com and paste in the YouTube channel URL into the box.
- Next, press the ‘Get YouTube Channel Id’ button to find the channel id.
- Add this to the YouTube RSS template and place the URL into your news aggregator.
| Beehive Yourself! – YouTube Channel | RSS link |
Go to your favourite Odysee channel. Click on the three dots and choose ‘copy RSS URL’.
If You Need More Help…
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If you are unable to find a RSS link, please leave a message in the comments box below. Moreover, please ensure you leave an url address (Example: https://the_webpage_you_need_help_with_dot_com) of the webpage you are trying to find a RSS link for. Beehive Yourself will endeavour to find you a RSS feed link.