lobsterss overview

RSS and Atom feeds for lobste.rs, with filtering by score, comments, and keywords.

lobsterss wraps the lobste.rs JSON API and generates filtered RSS and Atom feeds on demand. Feeds are cached for 20 minutes to be a good API citizen.

lobste.rs provides basic tag-based feeds but has no built-in way to filter by score, comment count, or title keyword. lobsterss adds those as query parameters on top of the standard feed URLs.

Base feeds

The following feeds mirror lobste.rs's own URLs and are available in RSS (.rss) and Atom (.atom) format.

Feed URL
Hottest /hottest.rss
Newest /newest.rss
By tag /t/python.rss
Multiple tags /t/rust,python,java.rss

Multi-tag feeds use OR semantics - stories tagged with any of the listed tags are included.

Filters

Append to any feed URL as query parameters.

Parameter Description
min_score=N Stories with N or more score
min_comments=N Stories with N or more comments
q=term Case-insensitive title keyword match

The q parameter supports boolean operators:

Operators can't currently be combined, and a maximum of 5 terms are supported.

Examples