RSS-Bridge is a PHP web application that generates RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds for websites that do not provide them natively.
The tool solves the problem of consuming content from feed-less websites by scraping their content and converting it into standard feed formats. It works through a collection of bridges, each designed to extract data from a specific website or service. Some bridges target particular platforms like YouTube, Reddit, and Mastodon, while others provide generic scraping capabilities using CSS selectors or XPath expressions. Additional bridges perform feed manipulation tasks such as merging multiple feeds, filtering items by keywords, or reducing feed noise.
RSS-Bridge suits developers and users who want to aggregate content from disparate sources into a single feed reader. It works well for personal deployments on shared hosting, virtual machines, or containerized environments. The tool can be deployed with minimal setup—unzipping into a web folder on traditional hosting, or installing via Composer. It requires PHP 7.4 or later. The project maintains an official public instance, and documentation lists additional community-hosted instances for those preferring not to self-host.
The project shows consistent maintenance with regular updates to bridge implementations and core functionality. Development activity includes ongoing additions of new bridges to support emerging platforms and services. The codebase receives contributions addressing both feature requests and compatibility improvements across different deployment environments.
