Do you want to get interesting links infrequently from slightly random places around the web? Do you want to get it via RSS? Well you’re in luck! Subscribe to my new links RSS feed.
This was inspired by Drew DeVault, who I read the blog of, setting up a account in linkhut, an open source, optionally self hosted social bookmarking service.
I had a look at linkhut but decided that I really didn’t need or want to tag, save or manage anything and that a simpler solution would probably be better. Plus I was itching to program something that wasn’t for school.
My set hacky up is a bookmarklet that copies a command to my clipboard that I can quickly paste into a command prompt. This calls a bash script that calls a python script.
The python script adds the new link to a CSV file which contains all of them. It then creates the RSS file using f-strings. I don’t like templating in python but I think that it is OK here because I don’t think I’m going to change the format of a RSS file very often.
Back in the bash script, I use rsync to copy the links folder to my server in the same way that I do for the whole website.
Probably not the best way to do that but it works!