I2P support forum

Hello,
I noticed the possibility to create a personalized feed at http://tracker2.postman.i2p/?view=AddRSSMap,
e.g. only music.

But how do I use this in my RSS Reader, not to miss any new item ?
Because: postman only deliver 10 recent items.


a) Fetch once a day. Downside: I miss items between my runs
b) Fetch ever 2-3 hours: my machine is not online the whole day, due to different timezone, I'm maybe in the middle of night...
c) Fetch every hour and cache the xml with a cronjob on a vps, accumulate, then feed it into my RSS Reader ?

According to postman, it's forbidden to use bot's and scripts, so c) is not desired.

How do you catch the relevant torrents for yourself ?

Hallo!
Even if you were to retrieve your RSS every hour, it is not guaranteed to receive all the news. Because as you know, only the last ten entries are delivered. If more than 10 torrents are uploaded in these 60 minutes, the retrieval time would have to be reduced further and further. This only works until the website blocks your connections because of vandalism.

The usual principle for RSS is a query by date. Postman never installed it; RSS was and is a stepchild for Postman. These and other issues, such as the lack of support for non-US languages (as well as the ban on copying plain text for external search or translation, blocking unpleasant web browsers, missing descriptions that seem to serve to accuse users of wrongdoing, and so on) have already been addressed. But since Postman has its own closed error reporting center, such problems and the answers to them usually no longer reach the public. I am surprised that RSS is still offered.

Some time ago, instead of RSS, it was still possible to download a website filtered by the tracker with a downloader in order to put it together offline to a table of contents. But Postman stopped it. Only after you have access to the website, a separate filter can be used. Here is an example of the latest 40 titles:

http://tracker2.postman.i2p/index.php?view=Main&start=0&limit=40&search=&category=2&orderby=-1&lastactive=0&lang=-1

So, the RSS readers behave as expected in their query. A correct solution can only be found by the operator of Postman’s Tracker.

Thanks for the reply!

Another idea:
use the postman api:
http://tracker2.postman.i2p/api/torrents

here I think I can also request 1st page, then 2nd, then 3rd - maybe with big enough waiting cycles.

Then convert the json to https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1
accumulate offline the several files,
remove overlapping/duplicates,
and then feed them into my RSS Reader.

A prototype for fetching and conversion runs here, I didn't continue the offline part with accumulation, because I thought there would be an easier way...