Include quoted tweet body in RSS

[gil]

Hey folks! This is my quick attempt of displaying quoted tweets on RSS results. As I've said, I don't know this codebase nor have worked with Nim before, so I'm sorry for any problems it may cause. So far, it's working well on my test instance and I like the results much more. This is how it looks:

Before

After

Fixes #132

[woj-tek]

@gil - it looks great, would be awesome to have it included :-)

[ninboy]

Let me start by saying that this is the sole reason it's keeping me away from using Nitter's RSS feeds and I'm grateful you pointed in the right direction here. I hope this get's merged as soon as possible 🤞

My 2 cents here would be that this should use more semantically correct element:

Suggested change

	<hr/>
	<p>Quoting: <a href="${urlPrefix}${quoteLink}">${cfg.hostname}${quoteLink}</a></p>
	${renderRssTweet(get(tweet.quote), cfg)}
	#end if
	<blockquote>
	<p>
	$renderRssTweet(get(tweet.quote), cfg)}
	</p>
	<footer>
	— <cite><a href="${urlPrefix}${quoteLink}">${cfg.hostname}${quoteLink}</a></cite>
	</footer>
	</blockquote>

[gil]

Thanks for the suggestion! It looks much better than what I did. Sorry I didn't merge it before, I was busy and then Twitter started breaking Nitter. Let's see if things will get more stable soon and I'll go back to this!

[koszzz]

I need it, that's wonderful.

[koszzz]

I hope this get's merged

[gil]

Yeah, me too @koszzz ! But at this point, I'm not even sure if Nitter will ever be stable again so that we can use it for RSS 😢

[untitaker]

this patch seems to work for my usecases and is now deployed on nitter.woodland.cafe

[thomas-333]

I appreciate this is a few months old now but this is something I'm very interested in as I use my local Nitter instance for rss.

When I try and apply manually and compile I'm getting an error:

/src/nitter/src/views/rss.nimf(57, 12) Error: type mismatch
Expression: $renderRssTweet
  [1] renderRssTweet: proc (tweet: Tweet, cfg: Config): string

If I try and apply automatically the diff fails, presumably the code has moved on since?

curl https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/d2b858e5e32107e558b4cecff08f07e13b1b93e2.diff | git apply
error: patch failed: src/views/rss.nimf:54
error: src/views/rss.nimf: patch does not apply

I'm using the latest guest_accounts branch.

[gil]

@thomas-333 yeah, I imagined that would happen eventually. But given that Nitter future is uncertain (wasn't it discontinued a few weeks ago?) and RSS was never the focus, I'm not sure if it's worth investing on this anymore.

You could probably check the current src/views/rss.nimf and try to replicate my changes, it's not that much.

[thomas-333]

Thanks for the reply @gil.

Nitter is working at least for now with real accounts which is fine for my personal use in generating rss feeds. I'm hoping it will continue it at least some form.

After more testing your original code works fine. The problem was with @ninboy changes.

$renderRssTweet(get(tweet.quote), cfg)} should be ${renderRssTweet(get(tweet.quote), cfg)}

and the #end if line should not have been deleted. This seems to be working.

Also I should say thanks for this. This makes rss feeds so much better :)