From e7317087ae211c0e723ab573558bd62a0280a3c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Abhay Rana Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 12:08:32 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Adds the telegram RSS idea --- README.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f9bfe1c..6418fb1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ - [But OAuth tokens can be revoked](#user-content-but-oauth-tokens-can-be-revoked) - [Procedure](#user-content-procedure) - [Pluggable Notify Daemon for linux](#user-content-notify-daemon-for-linux) +- [Telegram Channel to RSS](#user-content-telegram-to-rss) - [Licence](#user-content-licence) ## OpenBook @@ -149,5 +150,21 @@ for each of them. (GMail notifications might open your mail client if you click Keep it pluggable, otherwise its of no use. +## Telegram To RSS + +There are quite a lot of Telegram channels that are popping up these days that I really like using. +Except there are lots of issues with telegram channels: + +1. They are inside a closed network by-default. In order to access them you need to use the Telegram client +2. They are not linkable +3. No sharability without their client, and even then the content is duplicated. + +The idea is to create a generic website that does these 2 things: + +1. Publish an RSS Feed of every telegram channel it knows about. +2. Provide a direct link for every feed item on the RSS, so users without RSS readers can also browse through the listings. + +Since `web.telegram.org` is taken already by the web client, maybe something like `opentelegram.in` should work fine. + ## Licence This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Feel free to contribute via Pull Requests, or discuss ideas in Issues. Also feel free to use these ideas in making the Next Big Thing.