@davew hello, I saw your post on rss.network. I would say I am extremely interested. I have been getting so tired of the modern web/social media that I started building a project called RSS-THE-PLANET where I am converting my social media 1by1 into rss feeds.
So far it has mastodon and YouTube, but I want to try Instagram soon.
Anyway, excited to see what you are working on.
@zhhz I told you in our interview, most apps are just shitty web browsers converting JSON into lists of stuff. I thought I should put my money where my mouth is... so this was the result. I just convert the JSON to RSS by myself and then it works in any RSS reader.
Now my mastodon and youtube and news reading app is NetNewsWire or Reeder... and its pretty fucking epic.
@jeff That’s so cool! I was wondering that Reeder already supports adding a single YouTube channel or Mastodon, but no! Your solution can get all the subscriptions in a single RSS feed!
Definitely looking forward to it working with Instagram. Didn’t even know they had API for this
@zhhz It doesn't, I would hopefully be able to pretend to be their web app. But if not, I would have to pretend to be their iPhone app which might be pretty difficult reverse engineering.
Ultimately though, Instagram accounts are public (if they are not private), so even if it doesn't work in an authenticated way, I could just go the unauthenticated route.
With Mastodon and Youtube, these feeds are fully authenticated... and yes, the API keys used are read-only to prevent any misuse.
@jeff Yeah…I’m pretty sure their app endpoint has SSL pinning but last time I wanted to do something with their feed I also tried their web app
I also wonder how sites like imginn.com made their service work
Jeffrey Bergier
Ayo^