rss-bridge/docs/09_Technical_recommendations/index.md
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## General recommendations
## Test a site before building a bridge
Some sites make use of anti-bot mechanisms (e.g.: by using JavaScript) in which case they work fine in regular browsers,
but not in the PHP environment.
To check if a site works with RSS-Bridge, create a new bridge using the
[template](../05_Bridge_API/02_BridgeAbstract.md#template)
and load a valid URL (not the base URL!).
**Example (using github.com)**
```PHP
<?php
class TestBridge extends BridgeAbstract
{
const NAME = 'Unnamed bridge';
const URI = '';
const DESCRIPTION = 'No description provided';
const MAINTAINER = 'No maintainer';
const PARAMETERS = [];
const CACHE_TIMEOUT = 3600;
public function collectData()
{
$html = getSimpleHTMLDOM('https://github.com/rss-bridge/rss-bridge');
}
}
```
This bridge should return an empty page (HTML format)