An RSS feed for Paul Graham's essays.
This project was created because Aaron Swart's RSS feed on Paul Graham's website stopped working. And because I wanted the full text along with the publication date for my RSS reader.
Inspired by Daniel Olshansky's feed. (The starting point for this project was an AI translation of his Python code.)
The hosted version of this feed is available at anonyonoor.com/feeds/paul-graham.
- Checks for updates every minute.
- Includes the full text of each essay.
- Includes the publication date of each essay.
- Includes the URL and title of each essay.
- Self-host possible.
If you don't want to use the hosted version above, you can run the scripts yourself.
The following code will generate an RSS feed and save it to feed.rss.
import fs from "fs";
import { fetchArticles, fetchContent, generateRssFeed } from "./feed";
const links = await fetchArticles();
const articles = await fetchContent(links);
const rss = generateRssFeed(articles);
fs.writeFileSync("./feed.rss", rss);You can also use third party hosting providers, like Cloudflare Workers or any other provider you'd like.
(You can also use Next.js, since that's what I used to create the hosted version. But that's bit overkill and not a goal of the repository.)
See the server folder for an example of how to use this with Express.js, or the worker folder for an example of how to use this with Cloudflare Workers.
Thanks Aaron Swartz for the idea.
You made the world a better place.