iVMAIL VIA FRESHRSS	null	(FALSE)	0
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i2024-07-16	null	(FALSE)	0
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iIt's time for... Dan Shares Yet Another FreshRSS XPath Scraping Recipe!	null	(FALSE)	0
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iVMAIL	null	(FALSE)	0
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iI'm a huge fan of the XPath scraping feature of FreshRSS, my favourite feed	null	(FALSE)	0
ireader (and one of the most important applications in my digital ecosystem).	null	(FALSE)	0
iI've previously demonstrated how to use the feature to subscribe to Forward,	null	(FALSE)	0
ireruns of The Far Side, and new The Far Side content, despite none of those	null	(FALSE)	0
isites having "official" feeds.	null	(FALSE)	0
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ISignup form for VMail from Vole.WTF	/2024/07/volewtf-vmail-signup-screenshot.png	danq.me	70
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iVmail is cool. It's vole.wtf's (of ARCC etc. fame) community newsletter, and	null	(FALSE)	0
iit's as batshit crazy as you'd expect if you were to get the kinds of people	null	(FALSE)	0
iwho enjoy that site and asked them all to chip in on a newsletter.	null	(FALSE)	0
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iTotes bonkers.	null	(FALSE)	0
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iBut email's not how I like to consume this kind of media. So obviously, I	null	(FALSE)	0
iscraped it.	null	(FALSE)	0
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IScreenshot showing VMail subscription in FreshRSS	/2024/07/vmail-from-vole-wtf-in-freshrss.png	danq.me	70
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iRECIPE	null	(FALSE)	0
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iWant to subscribe to Vmail using your own copy of FreshRSS? Here's the	null	(FALSE)	0
isettings you're looking for -	null	(FALSE)	0
i* Type of feed source: HTML + XPath (Web scraping)	null	(FALSE)	0
i* XPath for finding news items: //table/tbody/tr	null	(FALSE)	0
iIt's just a table with each row being a newsletter; simple!	null	(FALSE)	0
i* XPath for item title: descendant::a	null	(FALSE)	0
i* XPath for item content: .	null	(FALSE)	0
i* XPath for item link (URL): descendant::a/@href	null	(FALSE)	0
i* XPath for item date: descendant::td[1]	null	(FALSE)	0
i* Custom date/time format: d M *y	null	(FALSE)	0
iThe dates are in a format that's like 01 May '24 - two-digit days with leading	null	(FALSE)	0
izeros, three-letter months, and a two-digit year preceded by a curly quote,	null	(FALSE)	0
iseparated by spaces. That curl quote screws up PHP's date parser, so we have	null	(FALSE)	0
ito give it a hint.	null	(FALSE)	0
i* XPath for unique item ID: descendant::th	null	(FALSE)	0
iOptional, but each issue's got its own unique ID already anyway; we might as	null	(FALSE)	0
iwell use it!	null	(FALSE)	0
i* Article CSS selector on original website: #vmail	null	(FALSE)	0
iOptional, but recommended: this option lets you read the entire content of	null	(FALSE)	0
ieach newsletter without leaving FreshRSS.	null	(FALSE)	0
i	null	(FALSE)	0
iSo yeah, FreshRSS continues to be amazing. And lately it's helped me keep on	null	(FALSE)	0
itop of the amazing/crazy of vole.wtf too.	null	(FALSE)	0
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iLINKS	null	(FALSE)	0
i	null	(FALSE)	0
hMy blog post announcing how valuable FreshRSS's XPath Scaping feature is	URL:https://danq.me/2022/09/27/freshrss-xpath/	(FALSE)	0
hFreshRSS	URL:https://freshrss.org/	(FALSE)	0
hMy blog note about my FreshRSS addiction	URL:https://danq.me/2021/09/29/freshrss-addiction/	(FALSE)	0
hA 2019 blog post about my digital ecosystem	URL:https://danq.me/2019/07/15/danq-ecosystem/	(FALSE)	0
1My blog post about how to subscribe to Forward using FreshRSS's XPath Scraping	/posts/forward-comic-freshrss-xpath	danq.me	70
1My blog post about how to subscribe to The Far Side reruns using FreshRSS's XPath Scraping	/posts/far-side-freshrss-xpath	danq.me	70
1My blog post about how to subscribe to new The Far Side content using FreshRSS's XPath Scraping	/posts/far-side-new-stuff-xpath	danq.me	70
1I could have used my selfhosted OpenTrashMail server	/posts/5-cool-apps-for-your-unraid-nas	danq.me	70
hVmail	URL:https://vole.wtf/vmail/	(FALSE)	0
hMy blog post about ARCC by vole.wtf.	URL:https://danq.me/2024/06/16/arcc/	(FALSE)	0
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