Can we add "feed" function on Discourse?

[xiasummer]

There are multi feed subscription websites. I’m wondering whether we can add feed on discourse. Like show the feed contents on the Discourse, or let Discourse be feeded.

[wesochuck (Wes Osborn)]

You might want to look at:

Display a Discourse RSS feed in Discord

This is a guide that explains how to display RSS feeds from your Discourse forum to your Discord server. You need a Discord Bot. You can use a hosted bot with an RSS cog and add it to your server or install a self-hosted bot and configure it. For this guide, we’ll use Red-DiscordBot because it is self-hosted. You can install it on your server. It’s very easy to maintain, highly customizable, and actively maintained. Setting up the bot Follow this tutorial to install and configure Red. C…

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

It might not be immediately clear from the other answer that I think all you want to know is that you can just add RSS to any URL that makes sense.

https://meta.discourse.org/c/feature.rss

[xiasummer]

So? Not working you mean?

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

If what you want to do is get an RSS feed of a Discourse category, then you need only add .rss to that URL (which you can see by clicking the URL).

If what you want is to embed some other site’s rss feed into Discourse, my answer is no help.

[cpradio]

There was once this topic, but I haven’t a clue what ever came out of it

[PAID] RSS Feed Poster (raised to $300...please help!)

What would you like done? Would like to have plugin created to allow for an RSS feed to create a post. This would be very similar to what is already built into VBulletin. There are really two main requirements: An RSS feed gets assigned a username, and posts when updated. For instance, if pulling a feed from “Blog A”, it’ll be posted by user “User A”. A regex way for editing the title/post, so we can use regular expression to modify what is being posted. With this, you can for example…

[elijah (Eli the Bearded)]

Good point.

@LeoMcA what became of your RSS plugin? I don’t see it on your github page.

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@elijah

I don’t see it on your github page.

Oh, but I do! I found discourse-rss-poster, last updated Dec 3, 2016.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

View source to find the proper RSS feed discovery tags, which is what RSS readers actually do… don’t just randomly slap .rss on the end of URLs, no matter what @pfaffman says

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS feed of &#39;Can we add &quot;feed&quot; function on Discourse?&#39;" href="https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-add-feed-function-on-discourse/57987.rss" />

[LeoMcA (Leo McArdle)]

@elijah

@LeoMcA com’è andata a finire con il tuo plugin RSS? Non lo vedo sulla tua pagina GitHub.

È ancora lì ↓

@pfaffman

Ah, sì, lo trovo! Ho trovato discourse-rss-poster, aggiornato l’ultima volta il 3 dicembre 2016.

Però sì, non l’ho guardato da un po’. Potrebbe essere completamente rotto. So che ci sono alcune segnalazioni di bug in giro che non ho ancora avuto tempo di affrontare. Quando troverò il tempo, finalmente pubblicherò il plugin in Customization > Plugin.

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So che chiedere se una funzionalità sarebbe benvenuta nel core perché non ho davvero tempo di mantenerla come plugin è un trucco, ma @team, una funzionalità «post da feed RSS» sarebbe benvenuta nel core? Sembra essere una richiesta abbastanza frequente ed è una funzionalità presente in altri software per forum.

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

@LeoMcA

would a “post from rss feed” feature be welcome in core?

When it comes to nice-to-haves we usually leave it up to our customers to decide. If one or two customers asked for this plugin, we might consider adopting it as an officially supported plugin. Only if a whole lot of people ask for it would be consider building it into core.

One thing it has going for it is that it’s a “seeding tool” to easily get some content/discussions started on your forum; we like seeding tools, because growing a community from scratch is hard, and we strongly prefer this type of method over slightly more dubious approaches like posting with fake users.

p.s. Don’t be shy about asking for to do extra development! I know charging money for basic maintenance & upkeep is a bit awkward, but unfortunately this will happen frequently so long as plugin developers need to keep up with the fast moving target that is Discourse beta/tests-passed. One great new option for support these days is https://opencollective.com/

You gently tell users to support you there if they’d like to expedite development.