Eamon Mason
Scott Hanselman ๐ธ๐ฝ๐๐ฎSo many years we fought with the Twitter API. I love that if you want an RSS of someone's Mastodon feed, you just add .rss at the end of their URL. Open Web, my friends. https://hachyderm.io/@shanselman.rss
squillace@shanselman wait, WUT
@squillace and json too!
Abraham Samma@shanselman @squillace I'm gobsmacked.
Georg311@shanselman One of the greatest features <3
Martin Juhasz
Jeff Smith@martinjuhasz @shanselman whiz-bang!
Bullwong@martinjuhasz @shanselman That's just profile stuff though, isn't it? I didn't see any posts.
ednl ๐ช๐บ@bullwong @martinjuhasz @shanselman Yes. The .rss version includes posts as expected, the .json version is just profile page info and no posts.
Stark@martinjuhasz @shanselman I hate that I love json so much
Marcus Fruit@Stark9837 @martinjuhasz @shanselman
#JSON feed is available via API Endpoint: `GET /api/v1/accounts/:id/statuses`
The mastodon user id can only be obtained via API; here is a quick way to find it.: https://prouser123.me/mastodon-userid-lookup/
Gavin@martinjuhasz @shanselman
Posts are found via the outbox, along with a boots and other things: https://hachyderm.io/users/shanselman/outbox?page=true
Posts are found via the outbox, along with a boots and other things: https://hachyderm.io/users/shanselman/outbox?page=true
Dan Ciruli@shanselman subscribed
Ian Bull ๐จ๐ฆ@shanselman Didn't Elon claim he wanted more transparency? It seems we're getting a more open web thanks to him; maybe just not the way he planned it.
endeavorance ๐๏ธ@shanselman and getting a json feed of someoneโs posts is super easy too! The public post API endpoint doesnโt require auth. How it should be!
@endeavorance @shanselman is part of privacy. If you can browse #twitter without an account, why do I need #api access. They should provide their own limiting and spam filters to protect their services from malicious users.
Karl Baron@endeavorance @shanselman Yeah it's great, I added a quick script to my website to scrape my feed for posts with a hashtag in them to auto generate a blog of threads, no API keys no nothing just grab some JSON and you're off, just a fantastic experience!
Andy Baio@shanselman Twitter had RSS feeds for every user's timelines like this for years! They removed it in 2013. ๐
Nebyoolae@andybaio @shanselman itโs a lot harder to monetize RSS
takeo@shanselman and feedbin just added some support for it too, which is pretty cool! https://feedbin.com/blog/2023/01/05/mastodon-and-microposts/ really neat to see where the resurgence in all this stuff leads
Aleลก Vojรกฤek@shanselman What RSS reader do you use? While a go I stopped using RSS, and now when it is more offen usefull I want to try some greate experience with this beast.
Dr. Dan Killam@VojacekAles @shanselman for Android I use Feeder. For desktop I use the Feedbro Firefox addon
Frank Licea@shanselman headaches with the firehouse API? Blah ptsd
Shane Pinnell@shanselman this is a great feature, possible in part thanks to the underpinning RubyOnRails framework.
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@shanselman wow! It works!
Rebecca Hedreen@shanselman It works for hashtags, too.
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Eilene@shanselman thanks for that.... some days on here I feel like I need a coding bootcamp just to communicate.
Negative12DollarBill@shanselman Great feature. This works with any Reddit URL, I don't know if you knew that?
Kingsley Uyi Idehen@shanselman,
Yep!
Add โ.jsonโ and you have an #ActivityStream rendition.
Each Activty Stream is a navigable #Web of #Data that represents your personal #DataSpace within the #Fediverse ๐
Jeff Moe@shanselman TIL. Good to remember who helped bring us RSS too!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Yandry Quiรฑonez@shanselman omg thatโs amazing!
marktaylor@shanselman Very cool!
Anthony Baker@shanselman Damn straight! And itโs absolutely delightful. ๐
Mike Bifulco@shanselman Iโm curious what youโre using it for!
Dave Lane 
๐ณ๐ฟ@shanselman it's a great open standard feature, you're not wrong. As is the JSON option.
Zorro Notorious MEB ๐ก@shanselman Twitter had RSS feeds originally; Twitter stopped serving them up at some point as a cost-cutting move.
Thommy@AlgoCompSynth @shanselman I was so mad about that? I used to auto-import tweets into my blog that way too.
@thomasjwebb @shanselman It turns out that at Twitter scale, even in the 2010 era, serving up XML was costing too much and I don't think people were actually browsing the RSS feeds.
Fauzruk@AlgoCompSynth @thomasjwebb @shanselman I don't really buy the cost cutting aspect to be honest.
They are a for profit company so they need to be able to provide some #KPI like monthly active users, etc. So they'd rather force you to access their platform to access their content and advertisement where they can control the experience.
It was probably underused as well so no real risk of a backlash for them.
They are a for profit company so they need to be able to provide some #KPI like monthly active users, etc. So they'd rather force you to access their platform to access their content and advertisement where they can control the experience.
It was probably underused as well so no real risk of a backlash for them.
Paul van Gulick!?? Well, one lives and one learns :-D
To check this out, I just installed akregator and added your .rss and voila! Nice.
Pรคr Bjรถrklund@shanselman @aeva which means outlook is a perfectly fine mastodon client ๐
Matthew Bennett@shanselman Also works for the posts & replies page.
fishybird@shanselman WOW #TIL of the month lol
@shanselman are #rss readers only readers, or could an #rssreader possibly add the #mastodon #api to allow for interactions like #comments #boosts and #favorites?
Charles RoperI have set up a redirect on my own domain so, if I change instance, I can update my redirect and my links/feeds won't break.
Examples:
https://roper.im/@charles.json
https://roper.im/@charles/109444677604230405
Redirects can be added easily using Cloudflare or cPanel, or any other way you can create standard redirects.
Charles Roper (@[email protected])
4.21K Posts, 272 Following, 1.03K Followers ยท 40-something mediocre man with obligatory beard. Doing digital since โ85. For the last two decades I have worked with non-profits focused on biodiversity, the natural environment, and education, with a bit of hospitality and tourism thrown in, too. Twelve of those years were at an environmental record centre helping make biodiversity data more useful and accessible for everyone. Also worked as a graphic designer and builder of web sites. Fuller bio on website, if interested. #COYS ๐ค ๐ป
Zafiris@shanselman RSS is so underrated
Christos Matskas โ
@shanselman seems like Mastodon learned from Twitterโs mistakes with a more dev-friendly setup. Open web FTW
@shanselman @joshuatopolsky gonna add them to my Google ig page.
J. Scott Coatsworth@shanselman SRSLY? That's so cool. :)
death_au@shanselman
It's just a pity that post permalinks suck...
Oh, and a local instance RSS feed would be cool, too.
It's just a pity that post permalinks suck...
Oh, and a local instance RSS feed would be cool, too.
Claire Barnes@shanselman Thanks for this amazingly helpful info! RSS in Thunderbird enables me to see original content only, without the clutter of boosts - and provides convenient indexing with URLs for individual posts too. Gamechanging!
Mathew J. Schwartz@shanselman #TIL โ thank you!
Hans Dickel@shanselman game changer for me. Thanks for the 411!