XPath for finding new items: tfs-comic js-comic']įinds each comic on the page.The “Daily Dose” gets published to The Far Side‘s homepage each day. I threw together a quick PHP program to act as a proxy (if you don’t have this, you’ll have to click-through to read each comic), then configured my FreshRSS feed as follows: The big problem is that the image server on The Far Side website tries to prevent hotlinking by checking the Referer: header on requests, so we need a proxy to spoof that. It turns out that FreshRSS’s XPath Scraping is almost enough to achieve exactly what I want. I demonstrated the use of this to subscribe to my friend Beverley‘s blog, but this week I figured it was time to have a go at retiring my middleware and subscribing directly to The Far Side from FreshRSS.

If you’re looking for a more-general instruction on using XPath scraping in FreshRSS, this isn’t it.The release of version 1.20.0 of my favourite RSS reader FreshRSS provided a new mechanism for subscribing to content from sites that didn’t provide feeds: XPath scraping.

The Far Side doesn’t have an RSS feed, so I implemented a proxy/middleware to bridge the two. A few yeras ago, I wanted to subscribe to The Far Side‘s “Daily Dose” via my RSS reader.

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