Superfeedr Blog

The following is a blog post written by Yordan from Innologica, the company behind Inoreader. If you want to write a guest post, please get in touch! Inoreader is well known for its Power-user-friendly features. People love the usefulness of rules, active searches, tags, broadcasts and a lot more. Those...  

Extracting more metadata about feeds and entries is one of our highest priorities. A couple months ago, we started surfacing a porn rank and a bozo rank to help you identify NSFW or broken feeds. One of the most obvious meta information is the language. Our very first schema already...  

2014 was the biggest year for Podcasts to date. Of course, this came from massively popular shows: This American Life and Serial come to mind, but more importantly, it came from the incredibly long tail of smaller or even niche podcasts thousands of indie people create out there. Platforms like...  

Happy new year! 2014 has been a fantastic year for Superfeedr with a lot of new customers consuming our feed APIs, a complete redesign, as well as a lot of great backend changes to help us scale further and further every month. We’re incredibly excited about 2015 and we can’t...  

Debugging webhook patterns is tricky because they’re mostly asynchronous: the subscribing (which listens to the webhook) side usually does not control the publishing side (which triggers the webhook). To help with that, we usually recommend our customers to check this very simple publishing application and its feed. They provide a...  

All RSS/Atom feeds aren’t born equal. As we process more and more we start to have a better understanding of them and one of our goals is to share more of the knowledge with our customers. We’ve been working on extracting more meta-information from these feeds and today, we want...  

Today’s an historic day: we are landing on a comet! It’s also a big day for Superfeedr: our new design is going live. We’re very proud to release this new version of our main HTML applications: it’s the biggest change in years and we tried to answer all your needs...  

As we’re closing on the redesign of Superfeedr, we found that there was a bunch of simple improvements we could bring to the API to bring increase consistency and usability. Subscriptions pagination Our PuSH API always had the ability to paginate over results results when listing subscriptions. However, the page...  

At this point, you have certainly heard about Bitcoin. It’s the most famous crypto-currency which relies on a shared ledger to determine every account’s balance. The network is made of clients that run the bitcoin protocol. Everyone can participate, but if you run a web app, it’s not trivial to...  

A bunch of our customers use Superfeedr to poll JSON APIs. Rather than wasting their resources, they use us to subscribe to JSON documents using webhooks. When the document eventually updates, we push them the whole document. Yet, most of the time, they’re not interested in the whole document, just...