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│ ├─rssr personal setup ├─> rssr ├─added .onion service ├─site optimisations ├─bfpprint ├─black metal songs of choice ├─tabler already proving its worth ├─tabler ├─new rss feed ├─learning c: or how I stopped using c++ ├─mail server setup at mail.jimscorner.co.uk! └─first post
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rssr

Really Simple Syndication Replicator (rssr) pronounced [’aire es es aire’] is an rss feed generator for content not officially supporting rss.

The program source can be found on GitHub.

Current supported content

  • TikTok user video uploads

Usage

usage: rssr [-h] [-c config] [-e] [-t title] [-l link] [-d description] outputfile

positional arguments:
  outputfile

options:
  -h, --help      show this help message and exit
  -e              checks outputfile exists and only overwrites with new entries
  -c config       path to config file (default is ./rssr.conf)
  -t title        set title for rss feed, overrides config
  -l link         sets link for rss feed, overrides config
  -d description  sets description for rss feed, overrides config

Example

rssr -e -c tiktok_<username>.conf tiktok_<username>.xml

tiktok_officialvarg.conf

[rss]
title 		= TikTok feed of @<username>
link  		= https://jimscorner.co.uk/feeds/tiktok_<username>.xml
description = An rssr generated rss feed for the TikTok user @<username>

[TikTok]
secUid = MS4wLjABAAAAzXa4i_wZ8O3DdHEsw-sKLizL7VlFfiNvZ9IHI5_U94CB6JNedAdyJWKEd2bmODPM

secUid is REQUIRED for a TikTok user, and it is unique to every user, the way to obtain it is to look at a TikTok user’s GET ‘api/post/item_list’ request, and grabbing it from the GET parameters. (Currently looking at for a less involved method of obtaining this.)

Background

I started watching @officialvarg TikTok videos and wanted to be notified when he uploaded new content, not having a TikTok account and not wanting to create on I decided I wanted a way to integrate notifications into my already existing rss, but TikTok provides no official rss feed support from their website. So I started making this program to utilise TikTok’s POST request’s to get the relevant data and compile it into a usable rss.xml, which I then can self-host for my rss-clients to connect to (see feeds.)

Whilst TikTok user videos are currently the only supported unofficial content and main motivation for making rssr, I’ve left it open for implementations of other types of content.