Bypassing RoyalRoad's piracy nags in RSS Feeds

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Issue#

Royal Road likes to annoy pirates. This is (arguably) good.

Royal Road doesn’t care if they annoy RSS users. This is bad.

Here’s a walkthrough of the problem and the fix.

The Problem:#

First, let’s look at the full picture of why this is happening.

The Original Website HTML (Simplified)

When you visit the Royal Road chapter in your browser, the full page’s HTML looks something like this. Your browser loads the section and the section.

RSS - Still Alive

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

RSS - Still Very Useful#

I like having a centralized curated list of content. I’d rather go to a single page to catch up on new content instead of visiting or remembering to visit a bunch of different sites. I also don’t like having to deal with cookies and sites tracking my every move.

I use: FreshRSS, RSSHub, and RSSHub-Radar

I used to only use RSS for blogs and other text based content but with the above tools I can RSS-ify most anything.

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Bypassing RoyalRoad's piracy nags in RSS Feeds

Issue#

The Problem:#

RSS - Still Alive

RSS - Still Very Useful#