Title: Port of the week: rss2email | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 24 January 2017 | |
Tags: portoftheweek unix email | |
Description: | |
This is the kind of Port of the week I like. This is a software I just | |
discovered and fall in love to. The tool **r2e** which is the port | |
**mail/rss2email** on OpenBSD is a small python utility that solves a | |
problem: *how to deal with RSS feeds?* | |
Until last week, I was using a "web app" named selfoss which was | |
aggregating my RSS feeds and displaying it on a web page, I was able | |
to filter by read/unread/marked and also filter by source. It is a | |
good tool that does the job well but I wanted something that doesn't | |
rely on a web browser. Here comes **r2e** ! | |
This simple software will send you a mail for each new entry in your | |
RSS feeds. It's really easy to configure and set-up. Just look at how | |
I configured mine: | |
$ r2e new [email protected] | |
$ r2e add "http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=rss" | |
$ r2e add "https://dataswamp.org/~solene/rss.xml" | |
$ r2e add "https://www.dragonflydigest.com/feed" | |
$ r2e add "http://phoronix.com/rss.php" | |
Add this in your crontab to check new RSS items every 10 minutes: | |
*/10 * * * * /usr/local/bin/r2e run | |
you're done ! | |
NOTE: you can use **r2e run --no-send** for the first time, it will | |
create the database and won't send you mails for current items in | |
feeds. |