unpretty: i’m just gonna post all the ways

[dragonlady7]

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unpretty:

i’m just gonna post all the ways i’ve found so far to get RSS Links They Don’t Want You To Know About from social media sites, because people keep Leaving Tumblr Forever in favor of sites that i’m not going to use

(if you don’t have an rss reader yet just make a feedly account, it takes about one whole minute, if you decide to use a different reader later you can export your whole list, it’s fine)

i’m gonna use strikethrough to indicate the text you need to replace and also include examples of feeds that seem to work

A General Rule

on almost any website look for the icon that looks like this

that’s the button that means ‘the rss feed is here’

Tumblr

just add /rss to the end of literally any blog’s url, including tags

i.e. unpretty.tumblr.com/rss or unpretty.tumblr.com/tagged/original/rss

now you can Leave Tumblr Forever and still follow blogs until such a time as tumblr implodes in earnest

Dreamwidth

use
username.dreamwidth.org/data/rss

i.e. gallusrostromegalus.dreamwidth.org/data/rss

WordPress

if it’s hosted on WordPress.com, just add /feed to the end of the url

if it’s self-hosted (i think around 20% of people who have their own website use wordpress to host it, i know i do bc it’s easy as sin) also just add /feed to the end the url

i.e. en.blog.wordpress.com/feed or kittyunpretty.com/feed

ArtStation

use username.artstation.com/rss

i.e. beccahallstedt.artstation.com/rss

Mastodon

just add .rss to the end of someone’s profile url

i.e. cybre.space/@kittyunpretty.rss

deviantART

use
backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=gallery%3Ausername

i.e.
backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=gallery%3Aarvalis

YouTube

this one’s a goddamn pain in the dick because you need to find the channel id first

in general youtube channels have a nonsense url like youtube.com/channel/abunchofbullshit

you have to take that last bit and plug it into youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=abunchofbullshit

i.e. youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCbpMy0Fg74eXXkvxJrtEn3w

Tapas

this is mostly handy for webcomics that were hosting on tumblr and crossposting, i think? i don’t know how tapas works for creators tbqh. anyway they’ve actually got a button at the top when you go to the comic page.

the one between ‘add to library’ and the paper airplane will give you the rss feed

LINE Webtoons

ditto wrt tumblr-hosted webcomics, and also having a button

the button to the left of the one that says +subscribe will get you the rss feed

Twitter & Instagram

these are the only two sites i’m including that don’t have native rss support, just because so goddamn many people have literally no other web presence at all for some reason

twitter used to have rss feeds but killed them, and i don’t think instagram ever had them. you have to use workarounds for these, and a lot of them end up getting killed, like TwitRSS.me. fetchrss seems to work okay but it costs money. if you pay for inoreader they’ve got built-in support for following twitter accounts but that’s not a practical solution for most people.

right now i use rsshub.app/platform/user/username

i.e. rsshub.app/twitter/user/dasharez0ne

… but the instagram one doesn’t actually seem to work, like, most of the time. i don’t know if i’ve found one that works ever. if you’re jumping ship there please consider doing the world the enormous goddamn favor of just making a free wordpress.com account and cross-posting all your instas with ifttt or something, rather than being totally at the mercy of mark zuckerberg

I shoved all the text behind a cut: your best bet, while Tumblr still works, is to click the link up at the top to take you to the post on Tumblr, because the crossposting process stripped out all the images and links and fixing it is beyond me at this juncture-- but there's some information in the comments on this post!

Comments

[conuly]

Sometimes the URL trick is to add /feed or /xml instead of /rss. I don't know why.

FYI to anybody reading, you can use DW as a feedreader too. Go to http://www.dreamwidth.org/feeds and paste the RSS URL into the box, then follow the instructions.

[dragonlady7]

I was just thinking, this post is useless as crossposted because all the images and links are stripped out! I don't know how to fix it but i might just point to your comment.

[conuly]

If you know basic HTML you could edit it to re-include the images and links. That's just two tags you have to remember - a href for links and img src for images.

But that looks like a lot of editing.

[dragonlady7]

yeah, and i'd have to either reupload all the links, or hotlink them to tumblr, and i just don't think it's that useful here.
I'm ok at HTML but not very good at anything more complicated, which is why I am absolutely helpless to edit the IFTTT thing I set up to crosspost my Tumblr to my Dreamwidth. The only way for me to fix it is to manually edit every entry once it crossposts, which clearly takes me some time. And the only way for me to stop it is to just stop posting on Tumblr, which is what I figure I'll eventually do.