I wanted to follow new content posted to Printables.com with a feed reader, but Printables.com doesn't provide one. Neither do the other obvious 3d model catalogues. So, I started building one.

I have something that spits out an Atom feed and a couple of beta testers gave me some valuable feedback. I had planned to make it public, with the ultimate goal being to convince Printables.com to implement feeds themselves.

Meanwhile, I stumbled across someone else who has done basically the same thing. Here are 3rd party feeds for

The format of their feeds is JSON-Feed, which is new to me. FreshRSS and NetNewsWire seems happy with it. (I went with Atom.) I may still release my take, if I find time to make one improvmment that my beta-testers suggested.

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You may find this useful: https://github.com/andrewshadura/rssgen

I found the base for this when I needed to generate an RSS feed for a website that didn’t have one; I ended up extending it to make it work in my case.

Comment by Andrej Shadura,
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Atom is definitely the way to go. JSON... can be fine for transferring between different parts of an app (or two applications that are co-developed and part of a larger whole), I guess. Totally wrong for a general document interchange format. (Let's not even talk about JSON/YAML as a config language. Nearly as bad an idea as XML as a config language)
Comment by Kelly,

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