FeedMoe - simple skin for RSS feeds

[nek]

• I'm unable to increase no. of items in feed above 15. Where can I do this?

Scroll the mouse wheel button over the top-right of the skin.

- or -

Right-click the skin > Edit skin

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[Variables]
MAX_ITEMS=20

Note: MAX_ITEMS= 1-20 | default: 8
And save. - File encoding: UTF-16LE BOM / UCS-2 LE BOM

You can also see the current value like this.
Right-click the skin > Show Tooltips

FeedMoe.Tooltips.png

• Some feeds aren't working. ... What could be the likely reason?

1. https://www.hindustantimes.com/rss/opinion/rssfeed.xml
- I have opened the url with the chrome browser, I got a xml feed.
- I have opened the url with the FeedMoe, I got a HTTP 403 Forbidden error from the web server.

You can see the error, right click the Rainmeter icon at the bottm-right of the desktop > About > Log tab
FeedReader.dll: Bang before failure (https://www.hindustantimes.com/rss/opinion/rssfeed.xml) - ... (403) ...
HTTP 403 Forbidden | https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/403
Edited:
I don't investigate yet, what cause this error. (user-Agent? or something else?)
We can't get HindustanTimes' feeds with FeedMoe skin directly.
Tech reasons:

- hindustantimes.com is using a Akamai Technologies services.
- In this case, Akamai's server requires client(web brower etc.)'s HTTP request header Accept or User-Agent.
- FeedMoe skin is reading a RSS2.0 feed by plugin FeedReader.dll.
- There aren't any way to modify HTTP request headers in the plugin FeedReader.dll.

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HTTP request header: by FeedReader.dll (2.3.0.0) **There is not Accept and User-Agent header.**
> GET /rss/opinion/rssfeed.xml HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.hindustantimes.com

(1) HTTP request with Accept: */* header and SUCCESSED.
command prompt: curl.exe -A "" -H "Accept: */*" -v https://www.hindustantimes.com/rss/opinion/rssfeed.xml

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HTTP request header: 
> GET /rss/opinion/rssfeed.xml HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.hindustantimes.com
> Accept: */*

HTTP response header: 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: application/xml;charset=UTF-8
< Server: nginx
< Eomportal-Instance: S160.21
< Cache-Control: must-revalidate, max-age=600
< Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:35:50 GMT
< Content-Length: 12175
< Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK means you succeed to get the feed content.

(2) HTTP request without Accept: */* header and FAILED.
command prompt: curl.exe -A "" -H "Accept:" -v https://www.hindustantimes.com/rss/opinion/rssfeed.xml

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HTTP request header: 
> GET /rss/opinion/rssfeed.xml HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.hindustantimes.com

HTTP response header: 
< HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
< Server: AkamaiGHost
< Mime-Version: 1.0
< Content-Type: text/html
< Content-Length: 306
< Expires: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:36:17 GMT
< Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:36:17 GMT
< Connection: close

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden means...
Akamai server says: I don't like your behavior, Access Denied.

2. http://static.cricinfo.com/rss/livescores.xml
- It works in my environment.
// Windows 10 pro 1909, Rainmeter 4.4.0.3398 beta (64-bit), FeedMoe_20200802, FeedReader.dll (2.3.0.0)
Please try again.

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[Variables]
@Include4=#@#FeedMoe.RSS2.inc
FEED_URL=http://static.cricinfo.com/rss/livescores.xml
FEED_TITLE=
COLOR_BACKGROUND_HEADER_DARK=03A9F4CC
COLOR_BACKGROUND_HEADER_LIGHT=9ADDFBE6
ITEM_TITLE_SUBSTITUTE=
;ITEM_LINK_SUBSTITUTE="(?si)^(?(?!http://www\.cricinfo\.com/).+)":""
MAX_ITEMS=10

[Morsmodre]

Thanks a lot, nek. Cricinfo feed works for me as well now. I was able to make Hindustan Times feed work with FeedMoe too, with https://rss.app/. It's a decent workaround.
Also, I had set MAX_ITEMS to 20, yet it was only fetching 15 items. Apparently it is a limitation with Youtube. xml for youtube playlists shows only 14-15 items at once.

[nek]

Glad to help.
YouTube Data API v2 | max 15 videos in the playlist | https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=xxxxx

[Morsmodre]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42258132/

That explains it. Thank you

[nek]

>> New version available

Twitter feeds (via nitter.net) error

20210314.nitter.net.error.png

It seems that nitter.net service restrict some connections, and there are alternative servers that we can use.

> Public Nitter Instances | https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

I picked up some from that list (ssllabs.com Rating:A+, those feed returns https link addresses.)

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* [Germany] nitter.nixnet.services 2021-03-18 https to http
* [Germany] nitter.mastodont.cat 2021-03-18 https to http
* [France] nitter.fdn.fr 2021-06-04 unstable
* [Bulgaria] nitter.himiko.cloud 2021-03-18 https to http
* [Germany] nitter.cattube.org 2021-09-01 unstable
* [Germany] nitter.namazso.eu
* [Netherlands] nitter.unixfox.eu 2021-09-01 https to http
* [India] nitter.kavin.rocks 2021-09-01 unstable

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How to fix Twitter feeds error. (via nitter.net)
1. Right-click the skin that occured the error, and select the Edit skin.
2. Edit the code (for example)

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;FEED_URL=https://nitter.net/NASA/rss
FEED_URL=https://nitter.namazso.eu/NASA/rss
ITEM_LINK_SUBSTITUTE="(?si)^https?://[0-9a-z-\.]+?(?:\:\d+)?\/":"https://twitter.com/","(?si)^(?(?!https://(?:[0-9a-z-]+\.)?twitter\.com/).+)":""

3. Save the file, and right-click the skin and select Refresh skin

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You might like the alternative service. RSS-Bridge service
See Examples of a Skin.ini - FeedMoe/wiki

[Judian81]

wauw. i did not thought that it will be so easy to change where you can get your feeds. Now i have the news from my country. And change that was so easy. thanks

[AmmarSaleemG]

How to Prevent FEED Item Title Truncation and wrap it on the next line? (Full Length Title)

[nek]

How to Prevent FEED Item Title Truncation and wrap it on the next line? (Full Length Title)

There is no way to wrap title strings. Only way to see full title is changing skin width.

2023-02-22.FeedMoe.gif

Changing the skin width
- Scroll the mouse wheel on the Header
- Right-click on the skin > Skin width >

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OneTicker is also a Rainmeter skin. It displays several Web feeds in OneTicker and displays full title by scrolling text.

oneticker.preview.gif

[Yincognito]

OneTicker is also a Rainmeter skin. It displays several Web feeds in OneTicker and displays full title by scrolling text.
oneticker.preview.gif

Great work on both skins!
Unfortunately the ticker one comes a bit too late for me: I was using a similar Firefox extension a long time ago before they moved away from the old XUL style extension system, and after that I built my own multiple feed reader (WebParser, no Lua, no plugins; you can check it, if curious, via my signature below). I was recently thinking about adding the ability to order feeds from the most to the least recent one in my similar skin, and I was wondering if your skins (either FeedMoe or OneTicker) support feed sorting by datetime. Or, to be more precise, does the FeedReader plugin that your skins are using support that?

[nek]

I was wondering if your skins (either FeedMoe or OneTicker) support feed sorting by datetime. Or, to be more precise, does the FeedReader plugin that your skins are using support that?

I don't know the FeedReader plugin have sorting functionality.
You could download FeedReader plugin and that includes pdf document for details.
> https://www.deviantart.com/limeycanuck/art/FeedReader-RSS-Atom-Plugin-for-Rainmeter-2-3-0-343870044