You can use RSS with GitHub!

by dweller - 2024-11-12

In my previous post I told you that you can subscribe to YouTube channels via RSS without an account. In today’s small post I want to do the same, but about GitHub. (Well Atom actually, but whatever.)

I don’t like GitHub much. But everyone is using it so I have to interact with it somehow. Surprise, surprise I don’t want to make an account with Microsoft (the owners of GitHub), but I do want to be able to find out about new release for some software I use. Thankfully GitHub still generates feeds for some things, and you can subscribe to them without an account!

You can subscribe to releases with this URL: https://github.com/$user/$repo/releases.atom
And to commits with this: https://github.com/$user/$repo/commits/$branch.atom
As well as, to activity of a user itself: https://github.com/$user.atom

Sadly it doesn’t seem to work with issues or individual issue… But hey, at least we still get something. Obviously, you need to replace $user and $repo with actual user- and repository names.

I primarily use this to track software releases/updates I installed outside of my distro’s repositories.

Anyways, this was supposed to be a #ulog post, but it got a bit long so CONGRATS little post, you’re not so little anymore!

Happy syndicating,
– dweller

Digital Cabin

You can use RSS with GitHub!