Comment by sphars

Comment by sphars a day ago

9 replies

Been meaning to post this but if you're interested, I set up a RSS feed for the daily Far Side comic[0]. It's a simple scraper that runs daily on GitHub actions and creates an entry for the 2-5 comics and captions of the day. Source code is on GitHub.[1]

I'll have to look into this new section of the website and see about adding that to the feed.

[0]: https://sphars.github.io/rss-feeds/feeds/the_far_side/feed.x...

[1]: https://github.com/sphars/rss-feeds

nativeit 2 hours ago

Thanks for this! I have moved 90%+ of my daily media consumption to FreshRSS, and despite the up-front effort, it's been well worth it. I find that a very simple, chronological, purely opt-in approach has improved my mental health, and left me fulfilled without the need for endless algorithmically generated content feeds, which frequently left me anxious and procrastinating.

Vinnl 11 hours ago

Semi-related: a plug of my project that allows you to set up exactly that for any website using CSS selectors. https://feed-me-up-scotty.vincenttunru.com/

  • sphars 10 hours ago

    This looks great, I'll have to check it out. I remember with the Far Side website I had to use Selenium for the browser because of some JavaScript on the page vs using something like BeautifulSoup. Does yours handle that?

brookst 15 hours ago

Wow. Thanks for making me buy a color e-ink display.

  • thebruce87m 9 hours ago

    Which one did you buy?

    • brookst 6 hours ago

      Bought the waveshare spectra 6 13.3”, will be a little project to connect to a spare rpi and pull down this RSS feed.

      • sphars 4 hours ago

        I'll be curious how you'll do this, having a daily Far Side like the daily paper calendar is a good idea. The only possible issue with my RSS feed is that I lump all the daily comics into one entry. So you could get 2-5 images per day/entry. Essentially what you see on the front page of thefarside.com. I'm not completely sold on my method, so open to suggestions (see above post for the GitHub)

jimniels 16 hours ago

My first thought on finding this: needs an rss feed! TY