RSS to Pinboard
September 10, 2020 10:35 AM Subscribe
Most of my IFTTT applets are sending RSS feeds to Pinboard - making a private bookmark for each rss entry. How would you do this without using IFTTT?
These are pretty infrequent feeds, but I would like the bookmark to show up within a day or so. I'd prefer to run this myself as opposed to relying on another cloud service.
These are pretty infrequent feeds, but I would like the bookmark to show up within a day or so. I'd prefer to run this myself as opposed to relying on another cloud service.
Are you looking for something you could build yourself, or something off-the-shelf?
Also, are you looking at doing this within an existing RSS reader?
Since you mention it being self-run vs. cloud-hosted, Pinboard's API is pretty straightforward, I'd combine that with an RSS library like Python's Feedparser (or another language if you have a preference, naturally).
You'd want to have some local persistence to go "Have I seen this entry before? No? Send it on", and beyond that have it run on a timer/cron job so it picks up once a day, and Bob's your uncle.
This'd be about a day or so's work for an experienced developer, or a bit more time but still within the realm of a hobbyist project if you've got a basic understanding of programming I'd say.
posted by CrystalDave at 11:27 AM on September 10, 2020
Also, are you looking at doing this within an existing RSS reader?
Since you mention it being self-run vs. cloud-hosted, Pinboard's API is pretty straightforward, I'd combine that with an RSS library like Python's Feedparser (or another language if you have a preference, naturally).
You'd want to have some local persistence to go "Have I seen this entry before? No? Send it on", and beyond that have it run on a timer/cron job so it picks up once a day, and Bob's your uncle.
This'd be about a day or so's work for an experienced developer, or a bit more time but still within the realm of a hobbyist project if you've got a basic understanding of programming I'd say.
posted by CrystalDave at 11:27 AM on September 10, 2020
Mod note: Final update from the OP:
This blog post (https://jackevansevo.github.io/posts/struggles-of-building-an-rss-feed-reader/) pointed me in the direction of Miniflux (https://miniflux.app/), which is a bare bones rss reader that can be self hosted. You can also pay $15 a year to use their servers. It has direct pinboard interaction!posted by loup (staff) at 10:00 AM on October 10, 2022 [1 favorite]
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(Oops, only now seen you don’t want to use another service, sorry.)
posted by fabius at 11:24 AM on September 10, 2020