Allow editing of feed URLs

[nicbarajas]

This may be similar to #2082, but I was hoping for the ability to edit the feed URL rather than having to delete and create a new feed. The idea would be that renaming the feed could bring up a dialog that includes the feed URL, similar to how a new feed is added.

My use case is that I’ve previously added feed URLs with the wrong domain or path, so while an RSS feed would correctly resolve, it would have the wrong content. It would speed up the process of adjusting feeds to include this editing capability.

[Wevah]

If this is for the Mac version, Command-I will open the info window where the feed and homepage URLs are visible, though unfortunately not editable.

[nicbarajas]

Thanks! I’ve updated the issue to clarify the request, since the info panel appears to be available on all platforms.

[brentsimmons]

The issue with this is that we use the feed URL as the identifier for the feed. It’s part of the identifier for all the articles in a feed, too. Editing a feed URL then means all those articles have to have their identifiers updated with the new feed URL. That’s a lot of data updating, and it would need to be correct every time.

[lin1005q]

I want to update the feed url because my cloud server expired. I use a lot of middle server generated feeds like RSSHub.

And stared a lot of articles.

Is there a solution, such as directly modifying the internal db file , modifying ipA to ipB

[brentsimmons]

Because every feed is identified by its URL, and feed URL is encoded in each article’s ID, it would be quite difficult to manually edit the database to update a feed URL (you’d lose all its articles).

You could write a script to do it — but you’d have to look at our code carefully to see how these things are done in NetNewsWire and then make sure your code does the same thing.

Sorry it’s not easier than that! I understand wanting to edit a feed URL and retaining the articles.

[pringshia]

Thanks for the explanation @brentsimmons, I can see how this is a tough change given that the feed is IDed on its URL, and not some surrogate ID.

One workaround I'm toying around with is setting up a personal proxy server for hosting my feeds, which in turn will just do URL redirects to the actual feed location. This way I can swap out URLs easily through a configuration change while not having to change my personal URL slug (this is a common enough use-case for me to make this implementation worth it).

[lin1005q]

Thanks for the explanation @brentsimmons, Is it possible to configure the alternate url of the feed so that the unique ID required for internal storage uses the old url?