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I used reader.google.com in the past, but it was shut down and I got reminded that it was a free service someone else was hosting. Then I used feedly, but it was not optimal. Tiny Tiny RSS (ttrss) seems like the best solution for me. https://tt-rss.org/ - Tiny Tiny RSS

Until 2021, I simply used a clone of the ttrss git repo, and updated that clone every now and then. Since 2021, the official/documented way of running ttrss is via containers.

Just a reminder, so I can restore the feeds if the database fails.

podcast
  Chaosradio             | https://chaosradio.ccc.de/chaosradio-complete.rss
  Fanboys                | https://www.fanboys.fm/episodes.mp3.rss
  Forschergeist          | https://forschergeist.de/feed/m4a/
  Mikroökonomen          | https://mikrooekonomen.podigee.io/feed/aac
  Mission Energiewende   | https://feedpress.me/detektorfm_mission-energiewende
  Retronauts             | http://retronauts.libsyn.com/rss
  Retrozirkel            | http://retrozirkel.de/feed/mp3/
  バイリンガルニュース       | https://bilingualnews.libsyn.com/rss
normal
  ccc media feed         | https://media.ccc.de/updates.rdf
  Der Postillon          | http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/rkEL
  Dilbert Daily Strip    | rss-bridge/?action=display&bridge=Dilbert&format=Atom
  Engadget 日本           | https://japanese.engadget.com/rss.xml
  Fefes Blog             | https://blog.fefe.de/rss.xml
  fluxcoil.net           | https://fluxcoil.net/feed.php
  GamingOnLinux          | https://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php
  GIGAZINE               | https://gigazine.net/news/rss_2.0/
  Jojos illustrierter Blog | http://blog.beetlebum.de/feed
  Legends of Localization  | https://legendsoflocalization.com/feed/
  Pro-Linux News           | http://www.pro-linux.de/NB3/rss/2/3/rss20_aktuell.xml
  Red Hat Blog: Ch. Horn   | https://www.redhat.com/en/rss/blog-author/23711
  Spoon & Tamago           | http://feeds.feedburner.com/SpoonTamago
  tagesschau.de            | http://www.tagesschau.de/xml/rss2
  There and back again     | https://www.preining.info/blog/feed
  Tiny Tiny RSS: Forum     | http://tt-rss.org/forum/rss.php
  xkcd.com                 | http://xkcd.com/rss.xml
  世論 What Japan Think    | https://feedproxy.google.com/WhatJapanThinks

• Japanese feeds collection: https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/rss/list

Many pages are not as social as they should be, they are not offering feeds. ttrss can directly read feeds, but for example twitter needs extra care. I use 2 solutions for it:

• rss-bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge : The bridge collection also provides interfaces for example for dilbert.com .
  • pro: provides pictures directly in the generated feed
  • con: can follow only one single person at a time. So I clutter my ttrss interface with 10 rss-bridge-twitter feeds, instead of one which includes all these single persons.
  • con: although I am following these persons, they can not see that
• twitterfeed.php from Russell Beattie russ@russellbeattie.com. It requires creation of a twitter token, but once setup, it is providing a feed of everybody I am following in twitter.
  • pro: one feed for everybody I follow in twitter. So I can just click 'follow' on twitter.com, and it appears here in this feed. Also the people I follow see that I am following.
  • con: no pictures.
• changedetection.io Self hosted, watches pages. link
  • not using it right now, as the RSS feed does not contain the actual change. So when I monitor a big page, I get notified 'it changed', but not hinted what.
• rsshub Self hosted, for watching pages: https://docs.rsshub.app/en/
• own scripts: The German/Japanese association in Japan offers no feed, and the page where they announce new events is small - but the contents are broken and meant for visually be read, but not parsed by a machine. I gave up trying to write an own rss-brigde bridge and now fetch with 'lynx -dump http://www.jdg.or.jp/koushin/whatsnew_j.html' the visual interpretation daily, and monitor for changes with 'diff'. Also feed generator ( http://createfeed.fivefilters.org ) looks not to bad trying to generate a feed from the page.

Normally, I just update the ttrss code via 'git pull origin', and schema updates are then recognized. For a friend, the schema update takes so long that it runs into a timeout. How to execute the schema update manually?

The single incremental schema updates are in this directory for Postgres:
$ ls -rt ttrss/schema/versions/pgsql/
[..]
137.sql
138.sql
139.sql

So if one is already on schema 138, one can access 
the ttrss-db and then execute the code from 139.sql.
$ su - postgres
[postgres]$ psql ttrss
<code from 139.sql>

Alternatively, “php update.php –schema-update” should work.

https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/ttrss-docker-compose/src/branch/static-dockerhub/README.md

apt -y install git docker-compose
cd /opt
git clone https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/ttrss-docker-compose.git ttrss-docker
cd ttrss-docker
git checkout static-dockerhub

cp .env-dist .env
vi .env
# TTRSS_SELF_URL_PATH=http://buster:8280/tt-rss
# HTTP_PORT=8280
# TTRSS_SESSION_COOKIE_LIFETIME=2592000
docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d

Then use a browser to access http://buster:8280, admin/password.

# first, in the ttrss webinterface go to preferences/feeds and
# create an OPML export.  With that, you can restore your feeds
# later if something goes wrong.
cd /opt/soft/ttrss/ttrss-docker
git pull origin
docker-compose stop
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
# login again

For me, I was adding feeds over years, and when postgresql updates went wrong, I was unsure which feeds I had subscribed to before. Since then I use this script which exports the current feeds from the database.

PGPASSWORD=dbpassword psql -d databasename -U dbuser \
  -h 127.0.0.1 \
  -c 'select title,feed_url from ttrss_feeds order by title;' \
  >/home/chris/ttrss_feeds.sql

My browser session with ttrss works just one day, then I am logged out. Configure this in config.php to extend the session:

  define('SESSION_COOKIE_LIFETIME', 8640000);

• Can I fetch and display content directly from ttrss? FeedIron can do that.
• Mediathekviewweb rss checker. To search for “Midnight”: https://mediathekviewweb.de/feed?query=%23Midnight