RSS Bridge

RSS Bridge is an open-source PHP service that turns websites without RSS into clean, subscribable feeds. Hundreds of community-maintained bridges convert social networks, video platforms, news portals, forum threads, podcast pages, and arbitrary scraped sites into Atom or RSS feeds that any reader can subscribe to. By self-hosting RSS Bridge on a VPS, you regain control over reading lists that drifted away as publishers quietly dropped their feeds, and you stop relying on overloaded public instances that get rate-limited or blocked by the upstream sources.

Common Use Cases

News and media followers run RSS Bridge to subscribe to publications that pulled their public RSS feeds — converting site sections, search pages, or author archives back into structured streams that flow into a reader. Video and podcast listeners turn YouTube channels, Twitch streams, Bandcamp artists, and SoundCloud users into chronological feeds, decoupling discovery from each platform's recommendation algorithm. Researchers and analysts watch GitHub releases, package registry pages, security advisories, and academic preprint sites by point-and-clicking through bridges instead of writing one-off scrapers. Marketers and competitive-intel teams track competitor blogs, product changelogs, and job boards through RSS Bridge feeds piped into Slack, Microsoft Teams, or webhook automations. Personal-knowledge-management users subscribe to forum threads, Reddit communities, Mastodon timelines, and niche aggregators alongside traditional blogs in a single self-hosted reader, giving them a unified inbox for the open web. Developers and homelab operators wire RSS Bridge feeds into self-hosted automation tools (n8n, Huginn, Node-RED) to trigger workflows on new posts, releases, or events.

Key Features

• Hundreds of community-maintained bridges covering social networks, video, news, forums, podcasts, registries, and arbitrary scraped sites
• Output formats including Atom, RSS 2.0, MRSS, JSON, HTML, and plain text for compatibility with every major reader and automation tool
• Per-bridge parameters so a single bridge can produce many feeds (different channels, queries, tags, or user handles) from one URL pattern
• Bridge whitelist via whitelist.txt to expose only the bridges you actually use, reducing maintenance surface and noise
• Custom Bridge.php support — drop your own bridges into the config volume to scrape sources the upstream catalog doesn’t cover
• curl-impersonate integration that makes outbound HTTP requests look like real Chrome traffic, getting past sites that block stock clients
• Stateless architecture — no users, no database, no first-run wizard — making it trivial to back up, restore, or duplicate
• Config overrides via config.ini.php for caching, proxy support, error handling, and request limits
• Built-in cache to avoid hammering upstream sources when many readers poll the same feed in parallel
• Permalinks: feed URLs are stable across container restarts, so subscriptions survive upgrades and redeployments
• Open-source under MIT-style licensing with an active maintainer community shipping regular bridge updates and security fixes
• Lightweight PHP-FPM + nginx stack with predictable resource usage on small VPS instances

Why deploy RSS Bridge on Hostinger VPS

Running RSS Bridge on a Hostinger VPS gives you a private, fully owned feed gateway that keeps your reading habits and source list out of public instance logs. Public RSS Bridge deployments are convenient but heavily rate-limited by upstream sources, which means feeds break exactly when the sites you care about become popular — running your own instance avoids the shared-IP throttling that plagues those community deployments. Dedicated CPU and memory on a VPS handle hundreds of bridges and high poll frequencies without falling over, and the small PHP-FPM + nginx footprint means RSS Bridge happily coexists with your reader, automation tools, and other self-hosted services on the same host. Combined with the persistent /config volume, custom bridges and whitelists survive container upgrades, so the gateway you spend time tuning stays tuned. And because Traefik fronts the deployment with HTTPS, the feed URLs you paste into your reader, mobile apps, or automation pipelines are encrypted end-to-end.