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What is it?
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
Which version should I use?
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.
My feeds
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
What if a page does not offer a feed?
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.
Can I do schema updates manually?
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.
Ttrss on Debian Buster install, docker based
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.
Ttrss update, docker based
# 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
Notes/hints
How can I do an automatic backup of my feeds list?
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
Automatic logout
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);
notes
- 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