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RSS-Bridge

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Velocity0.0

Generates RSS feeds for sites that do not provide one

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RSS-Bridge resurfaces after a year with a date tag and a Bluesky fix, but no release notes.

rssweb scrapingself-hostedphpcommunity maintained
◆Current state
RSS-Bridge generates feeds for sites that dropped theirs, and its releases are batches of community fixes to individual site bridges plus a few new ones. The last documented release was 2025-08-05. A new 2026-09-30 tag has appeared whose only visible change is a Bluesky bridge null-handling fix, with no published notes alongside it.
◆Where it's heading
The core is stable PHP and the work lives in the roughly 400 site-specific scrapers, which break whenever a target site changes markup or adds bot protection. Releases have slowed from every few months to once a year, so maintenance is continuing on master faster than it is being packaged.
◆Prediction
Unclear from the feed whether 2026-09-30 will get a written release; if it does, expect the usual mix of bridge repairs and bot-protection workarounds.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2mo ago

    RSS-Bridge 2026-09-30 tag with a Bluesky bridge fix

    A date tag surfacing after a year of quiet, with a Bluesky bridge fix for starter packs as its only visible change and no release notes. It shows the project is still maintained, not that anything changed for most installs.

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  2. 1y ago

    Routine batch: new bridges plus bot-protection and parser repairs

    The most recent release and a clean sample of the steady state: two new bridges added, a bot-protection bypass for Idealo, and parser repairs for sites that changed layout. The mix of new coverage and decay repair is what every RSS-Bridge release looks like.

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  3. 1y ago

    Bridge repairs, subcategory support, default 1-day cache TTL

    Another routine batch, with one change that touches every install rather than one bridge: a default cache TTL of one day. The rest is the usual repair work, including a broken VK bridge semi-disabled rather than fixed.

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  4. 1y ago

    Re-tag release to correct the version shown in Configuration

    Issued three weeks after the previous release mainly to carry the correct version tag in the Configuration page — the notes describe the earlier omission as a visual bug. A few bridge fixes ride along.

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  5. 1y ago

    All bridges now enabled by default

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    The default flips from a curated handful of enabled bridges to everything on, which is the change that turns RSS-Bridge from a tool you configure into a service you expose. The token auth and cache work in surrounding releases only make sense read against this.

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  6. 2y ago

    URL token authentication and cache administration tooling

    Password-protection via a required URL token arrives here, along with tools for manually administering the configured cache. In hindsight this is the groundwork for the all-bridges-on default that followed — a public instance needs a door before you open every window.

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