[Request] Edit Feed URL From UI

[zero77]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
As far as i'm aware, It's not currently possible to edit the feed URL from the web ui.

Describe the solution you'd like
Could you please give an option to edit the URL, like you can currently when renaming a feed.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

[anoymouserver]

This is related to #666, which was closed due to concerns about uniqueness and avoiding duplicates.

Possible problems are, that it's hard to ensure that the new feed URL is for the same feed provider and not a completely different one (the user could e.g. switch from bbc.com to cnn.com). This could cause duplicate feed item guids (or, more likely, overwriting of existing items) or just refetching of all items because of changed guids.

A safer approach would be to directly address common reasons to update the feed url.

• provider switched to another URL using a 301 or 308 redirect ➔ automatically update the feed URL (like AntennaPod did in Update feed URL when redirected AntennaPod/AntennaPod#1394)
• feed now support https ➔ try to auto-upgrade the feed URL to https
• ...

[zero77]

@anoymouserver
Are there currently any other options on how to edit the feed urls.

[anoymouserver]

Unfortunately not, the only approach is #666 (comment) (which I had handled similarly for myself), but you have to know exactly what you are doing, since it's modifying the database which could break the app.

[ei8fdb]

Hi @zero77, can you give me some information to understand why you think it's necessary to be able to change the feed URL?

I'm responding as the issue is tagged with design label, and I'm not 100% sure why this (feature) would be needed.

I'm struggling to find any reason apart from a typo (which I think will be caught already). I'm sure I'm missing something! 😅

@anoymouserver's comments about the URL changing for some systematic reason seem better handled by the application itself. (As it will happen automatically)

[asz]

I have a few feeds which use plain HTTP. I want them to be replaced with HTTPS. Besides better security, I also hope that would cause updating favicons URLs, which currently aren't loading due to mixed content restrictions.

I also have a feed with basic authorization. It would be nice to have the ability to change the password part outside of the database.

[oldnomad]

Another use case for feed URL editing is when a site changes its domain name or significantly redesigns site structure. Typically, in this case the feed continues to work for some time (but often missing favicon), and then stops when the site owner decides to remove the redirect or drop the old domain.

What is needed in this case is some sort of "re-subscribe" that repeats the subscription process (probably with a different URL), updates url, location, favicon_link and link, but preserves all other feed attributes (including feed title and last_modified) and the articles.

[brezelman]

Some other use cases:

• The site offers different feeds with different scope and I want to switch from one to another (e.g. 'news' and 'top news only').
• The website owner changed the url of the feed.
• The feed made an incorrect 301 'moved permanently' (e.g. because of virus infection/misconfiguration) and I want to reset it.
• Website changed its content management system/rss provider system.