What's Up, Fraidycat?

Ok, TikTok support is here. This required a ton of work - Fraidycat can now scrape rendered websites. Previously Fraidycat could only download pages and scrape the raw code - now it can simulate a visit to the page.

However, you might see your TikTok follow show up with NO POSTS.

Both Instagram and TikTok are having intermittent issues. I don’t know if this is due to a spike in Internet traffic or not. My advice is to put the follow into Fraidycat and it will work itself out some time over the next hour.

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I was attempting to get Fraidycat ready for the Bandcamp fundraiser a few weeks ago. Well, here it is now. Bandcamp artists and YouTube playlists are ALSO now supported.

A few Bandcamp releases I’ve been enjoying this season:

• corncob’s RANDY. You think the songs are going to go one direction and then - they go much further that direction.
• Adultry Kidding’s PSALM 91. Sometimes squeaky. Sometimes smashy.
• katydid’s ‘i am so happy that we were in the same place at the same time’. Found this on special.fish/pirl.
• pipe-eye’s Inside/Outside. I just love this particular Australian.

The YouTube playlist feature lets you follow a playlist, so that you can be notified when videos are added to it.

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Here’s a rundown of all the changes:

• TikTok, Bandcamp and YouTube playlist support.
• Strict Tracking issues in Firefox resolved thanks to @quad.
• Left-hand side expand/collapse arrow.
• Fix RSS dates from non-locale timezones.
• Retweets can be hidden using the ‘Hide Reposts’ option in the filtering menu.
• Improved graphs: if there are only three posts in the last two months, a gray six month graph will be shown. No graph if there is no activity in the last six months.
• New follow bookmarklet.
• RSS feeds without URLs are no longer broken.
• RSS feeds with only enclosure URLs (such as the https://feeds.megaphone.fm/replyall podcast feed) now work.
• RSS feeds served with an HTML mime type are fixed (such as the http://melonds.kuribo64.net/rss.php feed).
• Bug in sorting was causing feeds to skip updates and to sort incorrectly.
• Light mode toggle.
• Bug in variable replacement was causing ‘$350,000’ in titles to show as ‘,000’. Possible security fix.
• No more ‘50Y’ timestamps. If a feed has no posts, the update date is hidden now.
• Switched to the ‘Inria Sans’ font. I like Signika better - but I’m having issues with jittery font layout and bad kerning on the Windows electron app.

The URL for the new follow bookmarklet is:

javascript:location.href='https://fraidycat/s#!/add?url='+
  encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+
  encodeURIComponent(document.title)

I’ll go more into how to use this in a future post. For now, get your downloads at fraidyc.at. (Firefox extensions can be updated immediately, Chrome will likely take until the end of the week.)