Export subscriptions

[metbril]

Since one of the principles of the IndieWeb movement is to 'own your data' and to comply with the GDPR right to data portability, Aperture should have a feature to export all subscriptions.

Possible alternatives:

• json
• yaml
• opml

[martymcguire]

The Microsub client ek (part of ekster) can do this now for any Microsub server, once the client has been authorized with your server.

Here's the announcement blog post: https://p83.nl/posts/957

[jaklt]

@martymcguire Having such script is nice but not everything needs to be hacky all the time.

[janboddez]

After some trouble getting ek to run on my system, I've come up with a very simple way to expose my subscriptions using OPML: https://aperture.janboddez.tech/opml/1 (where 1 would be my user ID).

Note: the list is currently publicly available, which is probably not what you want, but it's very simple to implement using default Laravel functionality. (Concise write-up here: https://janboddez.tech/articles/adding-an-opml-endpoint-to-my-aperture-instance. Would definitely require [some] extra work before it could be merged.)