reeywhaar / want-my-rss

RSS features for Firefox

WANT MY RSS

An extension for Firefox that restores some of RSS functionality which Firefox abandoned. Functionality includes:

• Show indicator in the url bar if feed link available
• Show preview page with rss feed
• Subscribe button
• Keyboard navigation with ←|j for previous and →|k for next article

Add Feed Reader

If you want to add feed reader of your choice, see following link

Also you can add your preferred reader in extension's preferences.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Fill issues, make prs!

Changelog

0.27

Spring clean for the May queen

• Updated dependencies

0.26

You don't clutch no straw

• Added lazy loading for articles

0.25

What colors

• Fixed bar icon presentation

0.24

New Windows

• Fixed middle click on popup link
• Shadow replaced with border on item in dark mode

0.23

Long Time Run

• Updated packages
• Subscribe button now can be activated by enter button

0.22

Pixel Pixie

• Updated bar icon to make it play nicely with firefox style

0.21

In the search of path

• Updated code dependencies
• Link to rss are now searched in entire document #49

0.20

Return of Hi-Fi

• Updated code dependencies
• Fixed charset extraction
• Added %r interpolation placeholder

0.19

Roman the Technician

• technical release

0.18

Yellow brickroad quality

• fix rss content with relative urls

0.17

Stig comes to rescue

• fix unescaped subscription url (by https://github.com/StigNygaard)

0.16

Alan Hewston is critical

• fix Nooshub subscribe url

0.16

Alan Hewston is critical

• fix Nooshub subscribe url

0.15

Lorenzo can't believe it's not butterfly

• Add additional headers preventing feed caching
• Nooshub added

0.14

Ivan's Localized harpsichord

• Fix "Invalid Date" in non En/Us Firefox
• CommaFeed added

0.13

Solomon's Key features

• option to open feed links in new tab
• fix hover color of subscribe button in dark mode
• fix wrong url (not properly encoded) of popup.html
• intercept rss 1.0 feeds

0.12

CSS issues of Balton Brando

• restored bottom item link color
• wider item shadow in dark mode

0.11

• added link to media
• increased color difference of visited and unvisited links

0.10

• added G2Reader and Feedbin
• added options page which includes ability to define custom feed reader and reset options
• option to open hyperlinks to feeds in extension's viewer directly
• migrated to TypeScript (helped to spot some errors)

0.9

• add "summary" tag to content lookup tags.
• fix parsing feeds without <?xml header
• registered ext+rss protocol handler. Feeds may be opened by typing something like ext+rss:http://example.com/feed.rss in an url bar.

0.8

• show original url in extension's popup
• loose xml parsing from first occurance of <?xml

0.7

• added BazQux

0.6

• added Netvibes
• fix subscribe button icon click

0.5

• JSON feeds support
• Data escaping (:
• Slight design modifications

0.4

• Additional prev/next keyboard navigation with ←/→ arrow keys
• Better keyboard navigation

0.3

• Article sorting
• Better error handling
• Show time relative feature
• Bug fixes
• Minor style changes

0.2

• "Feed not found" message
• Better picking of feeds
• Line with article link at bottom
• <enclosure> tag handling
• j/k navigation for previous/next article
• subscribe button

0.1

• Initial version with basic notification and displaying capabilities

Credits

Extension uses PT Sans font

want-my-rss's Issues

Release notes in the extension and at AMO

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/want-my-rss/versions/0.18/updateinfo/ was OK.

I see 0.19...0.20 however:

1. the extension lacks a Release notes tab
2. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/want-my-rss/versions/0.19/updateinfo/ and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/want-my-rss/versions/0.20/updateinfo/ are empty.

feature request : is it possible to fix the speed of all podcasts

I play the podcasts with speed 1.5x so I would like to know if it's possible ot have the feature of fixing this value for all podcasts on the page of the addon, ie this
moz-extension://a722144b-a46d-4408-9f43-7755c0ba77d0/show.html?url=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.rss

No links at youtube channels

Extension only gives links to channels with /user/example , but not with /channel/* in the url.

XML files with RSS data

Hi, thanks for the add-on, I really do want my rss... ;)

I would like to suggest atom files and XML files with RSS-style data, such as found in

https://www.moxa.com/RSS/Security_advisory.xml

and

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/rss/advisories.atom

Thanks!

More obvious marking of visited links?

The color difference between unvisited and visited links is not as dramatic as the browser's default colors, so it could be tricky for some users to scan down and open only the pages they have not viewed before. Something to consider for the future as you start getting theming requests.

misses feed links?

ex: ghacks.net/category/firefox/
there's 3 feeds in the head that are not detected

Stale cache - https://audioboom.com/channels/4908905.rss

I seem to be getting stale cache on some feed. I noticed it on this feed just now. Pressing F5 fixed it. I don't know how well Firefox builtin RSS used to work with this, because I didn't use any audioboom.com feed before.

Visiting it now (after F5, but not using F5), Firefox developer tools shows a HTTP 200 response with Cache-Control: max-age=900, public. So I'm not sure what's going on :-(. I will try to capture more information the next time I see it.

I searched the web, but couldn't find any results about other open-source software having a specific difficulty with audioboom.com.

Displaying RSS feed correctly after clicking on a RSS link in a Web page

Hi,

It would be deeply helpful if the extension could display correctly a feed when ones click on a hyperlink in a web page pointing to a RSS feed, like, say, the ones we find in the New York Times RSS page !

Serge

XML encoding is ignored [bug]

If RSS feed has other encoding that utf-8, want-my-rss ignores it.

Example: https://lleo.me/dnevnik/rss.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1251'?>

...

It is displayed like this:

100% CPU usage on some pages, no preview generated

Describe the bug
Recently the extension, upon selecting a feed from dropdown, started freezing the browser (100% cpu, can't do anything and one has to force-close the browser

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to https://www.biobiochile.cl/
2. Click on want-my-rss icon in the addressbar and select detected feed
3. Browser freezes

Expected behavior
I should see a preview of the RSS feed

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: macOS Catalina 10.15.7
• Browser Firefox
• Version 81.0.1 (64-bit)

"This listing is not intended for this platform. Browse add-ons for Firefox on desktop" at addons.mozilla.org

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/want-my-rss/

This listing is not intended for this platform. Browse add-ons for Firefox on desktop.

Copy link problem

If I click on RSS icon on this page for example, then appear in popup the title "Recent Commits to want-my-rss:master", if I want to copy quickly the RSS link in context menu > "Copy Link location" the clipboard result is:
moz-extension://2825c5ae-5048-4be4-a5b9-2edc35e303dc/show.html?url=https://github.com/Reeywhaar/want-my-rss/commits/master.atom
but it should be:
https://github.com/Reeywhaar/want-my-rss/commits/master.atom
The problem is present on any RSS web page.

Hotkeys navigation

j/k buttons should be used for previous/next item

Feedbin+Twitter Support

Feedbin turned itself into a beautiful Twitter reader. It would be awesome to be able to subscribe to a twitter account just like I would any other blog by clicking your addon!

Here's what the integration looks like https://feedbin.com/blog/2018/01/11/feedbin-is-the-best-way-to-read-twitter/

I started a tweet thread about this here: https://twitter.com/CaptainCalliope/status/1240538299439202304

Issue with non UTF-8 feeds

I noticed the charset used could be wrong when the RSS flux isn't UTF-8...
Even with the "Content-Type: application/rss+xml; charset=iso-8859-1" in the HTTP headers, and "" at the beginning of the feed.

Example feed: http://furrtek.free.fr/rss.php

JSON feeds support

Additional Feed Information

Hi, great plugin!

If you're looking for more ideas, it would be cool to have a line at the top of the feed preview showing the volume of posts, something like "4 posts in the last week", or "12 posts in the last day". That's something I care a lot about when deciding to subscribe or not.

Thanks!

Add a 'copy to clipboard' botton

It would be really very convenient to have a button 'add to clipboard' in the case of using external rss reader

thank you

Icon for dark theme

Option to add self-hosted feed reader

#6 (comment)
Add option page where user can add feed readers itself.

"Subscribe to page" icon

The "Subscribe to page" icon appears as a dot in Firefox' address bar.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/T7BoFOt.png

Subscribe button broken

Subscribe button has stopped working:

ReferenceError: can't access lexical declaration `providersDiv' before initialization subscribeButton.js:38:13
    init moz-extension://97df79c0-b2f5-4c98-bd6f-d5fc65438372/js/subscribeButton.js:38
    (Asynchrone : EventListener.handleEvent)
    init moz-extension://97df79c0-b2f5-4c98-bd6f-d5fc65438372/js/subscribeButton.js:37
    SubscribeButton moz-extension://97df79c0-b2f5-4c98-bd6f-d5fc65438372/js/subscribeButton.js:6
    main moz-extension://97df79c0-b2f5-4c98-bd6f-d5fc65438372/js/show.js:402
    AsyncFunctionNext self-hosted:693
    (Asynchrone : async)
    <anonyme> moz-extension://97df79c0-b2f5-4c98-bd6f-d5fc65438372/js/show.js:436
    InnerModuleEvaluation self-hosted:1572
    evaluation self-hosted:1543

It was recently working fine; don't know what has changed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Remove some provided feed readers

Hi and thanks for this addon,

Do you think it would be useful to allow users to remove some (or all) of the feed readers provided by default ? They could be listed in preference pane in the same way that personal readers, so we could remove the ones we don't want to use.

Any thought about it ?

Implement article lazy loading

Some websites have very heavy articles so it better to render article one by one and only when it enters the view.

Feeds examples:
http://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/zxfb/rss.xml from #61
https://www.biobiochile.cl/ from #38

Fix rel="alternate" filtering

Finding rss links by querying link[rel='alternate'] is not enough, which can be seen for example at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/time

Invalid Date

All feeds show Invalid Date.
Example: http://feeds.reuters.com/news/artsculture

YouTube: no feed offered even though the page provides a link

YouTube provides the <link rel="alternate" type="rss+xml" href="..." /> in the body of the document, not in the head.
The add-on only searches the head:

want-my-rss/ts/page.ts

Line 4 in 4d6dd24

const data = Array.from(document.head.querySelectorAll(

I assume searching the whole document instead of the document.head may work around this.

Posting feed to some feedreaders ignores parameters on feed (It seems feed url needs escaping)

When posting a feed to a feedly or Inoreader, parameters of the feed are ignored.
For example parameters are used in a lot of Flickr's newsfeeds, like for my photostream at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stignygaard/
which have the newsfeed
https://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=10259776@N00&lang=en-us&format=atom

But when subscribing it to feedly or inoreader via WantMyRSS, the url seems to parsed as just https://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne which is "Uploads from everyone" instead of the expected "Uploads from Stig Nygaard". Currently for ionoreader the following subscription url is created:

https://www.inoreader.com/feed/https://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=10259776@N00&lang=en-us&format=atom

It seems the feed-part needs to be escaped. It works this way on inoreader:

https://www.inoreader.com/feed/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fservices%2Ffeeds%2Fphotos_public.gne%3Fid%3D10259776%40N00%26lang%3Den-us%26format%3Datom

Feature request: link to download podcast file?

My use for the old RSS support was to download podcasts. I tried 0.10 of this extension, but I don't think it lets me do that. I see an <audio> player for the podcast, but I can't see any way to download the podcast file (MP3).

Thanks for creating this extension, whether or not you implement my requested feature :-).

support for domains that don't advertise feeds (without feed detection)

wow, this is a very nice extension! but (and there's always a "but", tight?) it doesn't support feeds for some very popular websites, such as YouTube, BitChute, Vimeo

feeds for all of these platforms can be built statically by reformatting the URL - please see...

How to access RSS feeds for websites that don’t advertise one

http://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/zxfb/rss.xml doesn't work

http://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/zxfb/rss.xml doesn't work

missed feed: podcast

activistpost.com - WMR detects 3 feeds, misses the 4th:

https://www.activistpost.com/feed/podcast

also if you would, let me know if the rules file idea might be something you want to consider

thanks!

Subscribe button in place

Make the "Subscribe" button accessible when only pressing "tab" key

the only way to subscribe to a page is using the mouse and click the subscribe button. the subscribe button should be focusable by using only keyboard inputs for people not able to use mice.

https://csdb.dk/rss/ doesn't work fine

If I open https://csdb.dk/rss/latestreleases.php I have a blank page (see the 1st attachment); in rare case it works!
Also Want-My-RSS doesn't recognise RSS links inside his RSS page. Example:
if I open https://csdb.dk/rss/ it work fine, but if then I click on a RSS link (like https://csdb.dk/rss/latestreleases.php or another link inside the RSS page) it open the RSS link like a normal site (see the 2nd attachment).

[QUESTION] A userContent.css for hiding specific authors?

Hi, no issue, only a question,

Could the developer or anyone of us provide the code which would allow to hide a Want My RSS item for a specific author?

The idea is : IF .item__author=XXX THEN hide .item

Added to, i.e. such a userContentCSS as:

/* WANT MY RSS @AMO */
@-moz-document url-prefix("moz-extension://[UUID]/show.html")
{
body {max-width: 75rem !important;}
}

Thanks!

No RSS intercepted

To http://www.freshremix.ru/ pages no RSS is show because I get this error:

Error while parsing feed
http://www.freshremix.ru/house/rss.xml

(1694699) extensions conflict: loss of tabs with Want My RSS and Simple Tab Groups added to Firefox 86.0

Spun off from Drive4ik/simple-tab-groups#779 (comment)

If a group with more than one tab is opened into a new window whilst Want My RSS is enabled:

• tabs that are not loaded are lost when the window closes.

2021-02-20.16.33.Want.My.RSS.mp4

Relative links

Hi,
Thank you for this WebExtension, it works great.

I have one issue though:
The base URL for relative links inside the RSS feed should be the RSS feed URL, not moz-extension://6bc84008-a33c-4e78-833e-d6ae00ba21be

Regards

Feature: Disabled for localhost

While this plugin is quite nice for everyday on the net, I am not sure it has any meaning for localhost addresses which probably means we are in 'Dev' mode :-)
Maybe an option to disable it for addresses: localhost:/ or 127.0.0.1:/

Thanks

Option to open in standalone app

Is it possible to add the option to subscribe to the feed via a local rss feed (such as QuiteRSS)?

Typo in title on GitHub

I think "RSS featutes for Firefox" is meant to be "RSS features for Firefox".

Add feed reader

If you want to add provider to the button below

You can provide the following details:

Name

e.g My Feed Reader

Icon URL

e.g https://myfeedreader.example/favicon.png

Subscription Link with %s as a feed placeholder

e.g https://myfeedreader.example/subscribe?url=%s

... Or make Pull Request

Just add icon to /ext/providers-icons/ and edit /ts/feedReaders.ts accordingly