![]() The truth is, RSS and related feed formats are just more versatile than anything in wide usage that has attempted to replace it. (Is it any wonder that vinyl album sales just hit a 25-year peak last year?) One only has to look at the success of online feed reader site Feedly to understand that there's still definitely a market for RSS readers. The target audience for a technology might change a bit, and the tools people use to consume the technology might change, too.īut RSS is no more gone than email, JavaScript, SQL databases, the command line, or any number of other technologies that various people told me more than a decade ago had numbered days. But old technologies never really die just because new technologies come along, particularly if the new technology does not perfectly replicate all of the use cases of the old one. When Google Reader was discontinued four years ago, many "technology experts" called it the end of RSS feeds.Īnd it's true that for some people, social media and other aggregation tools are filling a need that feed readers for RSS, Atom, and other syndication formats once served. If you ever wanted to build a web-base feed reader without you having to code one from scratch, above are six free open source PHP script that can help you get a web-base feed reader up and running alongside their respective features and server requirement. It requires PHP version 5.3 or newer and PostgreSQL or MySQL (InnoDB is required, MyISAM will not work). Shared hosting account may work but is not supported. You will need a dedicated web hosting account or access to a server running generic modern LAMP stack or compatible. Tiny Tiny RSS is an open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible. ![]() It is a lightweight PHP script, mobile friendly (Android, iOS, iPad) with supports for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sqlite databases. Selfoss is a multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application. Gregarius is a Web-based RSS/RDF/ATOM news aggregator featuring OPML import/export, XHTML/CSS output and an AJAX-based item tagging system. It uses OPML import/export for easy sharing of subscriptions between news readers.įeatures of Rnews include: supports database table prefixes to accommodate web hosts that provide only one database supports secure login, user addition, and password change on SSL-capable servers marking articles as favorites to easily find them later and protect from deletion feed scoring based on your viewing statistics and lots more. Rnews is free, open-source PHP script with Atom and RSS feed formats support. It requires an access to a server running PHP 4.3.2 or later with the PCRE and XML extensions available, as well as MySQL. It keeps track of what items you’ve read, and can mark the items as read so they won’t be shown again. The minimum requirements needed to successfully run Lilina are: PHP 5.2 or higher, PHP’s XML extension, PHP’s PCRE extension and PHP’s JSON extension.Ī feed aggregator script powered by SimplePie. You can import feed as OPML, the standard for feed sharing. It uses no database and supports both RSS and Atom feed. ![]() Lilina is a PHP open source feed news aggregator script powered by SimplePie. If you are looking to build your own web-based feed reader, here are a list of PHP script to get one up and running for you. To keep yourself abreast on latest update coming from the list of websites you’ve subscribed to, you need a feed reader, which can either be a mobile application, PC software or a website, to fetch and display the contents. ![]() There are basically two feed format: RSS which is an acronym for “Really Simple Syndication” and ATOM in which the initial is the more popular of the two. It has become the internet best way of subscribing and getting update from our favorite websites. It is a way to easily distribute a list of headlines, update notices, and sometimes content to a wide number of people. A (web) feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. ![]()
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