Thread by @luca

I love feeds and the people I follow on Twitter.

To make it easier to add the websites of the accounts I follow to @feedly, I wrote a little tool that looks for feeds in your URLs and puts them in an OPML file.

Try it with your followings: opml.glitch.me

1. Login with your Twitter account
2. Keep the tab open until the download starts*
3. Import the OPML-file with your favorite feed reader
4. Enjoy unfiltered content

* It takes a lot of time, because the tool has to visit every website to search for the feed.

Bonus step: Unfollow feeds that publish too much content you aren't interested in.

Choose the "Twitter Followings" category and sort by stories per month.

So many inactive feeds.

Why am I tweeting this instead of writing a blog post?

This article by @SimonHurtz for @SZ_Digital prompted me to finally create that tool.

https://twitter.com/SimonHurtz/status/1029244833548914688

Working on v2 which should be less error prone. No OPML download yet, but you can look at all the websites and feeds of your followings in the browser: opml-socket.glitch.me #RSS

Version 2 is now live at opml.glitch.me.

Export website feeds of up to 2 000 Twitter accounts. Now with Feedly follow buttons for selective subscribing.

Just found a bug with the generated OPML, because websites use weird RSS-links. Will try to fix it tomorrow.

Fixed the bug by removing all query strings.

Of the 1 466 accounts I follow, 1 105 have a working URL in their URL field. Of those 620 got a discoverable feed. I was able to import 584 to my feed reader.

Fixed some things.
- Multiple feeds. If a website has more than one feed, they will show all up now.
- Comments feeds. If the url contains "comment" they get their own label/folder.
- Titles. Titles and https addresses are saved as defined in the OPML spec.

Needs input: How to handle feeds that are the same thing but in different formats. Many websites got an RSS and Atom feed.