RSS-Bridge

RSS-Bridge is a PHP web application that generates web feeds for websites that do not provide RSS or Atom. It offers hundreds of site-specific “bridges” and generic scraping bridges to turn pages, profiles, and listings into feeds your reader can subscribe to.

Key Features

• Large catalog of site-specific bridges for news, social platforms, media sites, and more
• Generic bridges to create feeds using CSS selectors or XPath for unsupported websites
• Multiple output formats including RSS and Atom (and JSON feed in many cases)
• Feed filtering and transformation (for example: merge feeds, reduce noise, keyword filtering)
• Caching to reduce load and improve performance, with selectable backends (file, SQLite, Memcached)
• Optional instance protection via token or HTTP Basic Authentication

Use Cases

• Follow updates from websites and services that do not publish RSS/Atom feeds
• Create custom feeds for specific sections, searches, users, or tags on supported sites
• Aggregate and filter multiple feeds into a single curated feed for a reader or dashboard

Limitations and Considerations

• Bridges can break when target websites change their layout, markup, or anti-bot measures
• Scraping-based bridges may require tuning timeouts and caching to stay reliable at scale

RSS-Bridge is a pragmatic solution for restoring feed-based workflows when official feeds are missing or insufficient. It is best suited for users who rely on RSS and want flexibility through a broad bridge ecosystem and configurable caching and filtering.