RSS Bridge

A tool that can generate 03-notes/it-perso/RSS feeds for websites that don't have one :

mais tous les RSS ne sont pas égaux, gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2024-12-31-google-news-rss-sucks.gmi

Here is how most RSS feeds work:
RSS item ➡️ request direct link to article

Here is how Yahoo's RSS feeds worked:
RSS item ➡️ request yahoo.com URL ➡️ 302 redirect to actual news article.

But here is how Google News's RSS feeds "work":

RSS item ➡️ google.com URL ➡️ HTML response, which downloads 1.2 MB of HTML content, plus another 400 KB of CSS and JS content. It then runs this obfuscated JavaScript to make HTTP calls to hidden, undocumented APIs, which send back an obfuscated payload that the JavaScript then decrypts and redirect you to the final page.

In short, [[Google]] News's RSS feeds require you to use a modern JavaScript-enabled web browser to resolve the RSS items to the actual news story

This. Is. Fucking. Insane.