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RSS alert to email/ping me when keyword found in feed?
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I'm having an unusually hard time finding an "RSS keyword alert" app, whether on the web or a desktop app.
Here's what I want to do:
- Enter an RSS feed.
- Enter my keywords.
- The app scans the feed at regular intervals, and alerts me (email? Growl?) when a keyword has been found.
I found some older web solutions that are now defunct, and have searched a variety of other usual places. Odd how this seems so hard to find as it seems to be a very common thing to do. I know on some sites like Google News, they have their own keyword alerts, but this is for specific RSS feeds not covered there, not the general news. For example: KVR Forum: Market Place (Buy / Sell / Special Offers)
Does anyone use/recommend an RSS keyword alert app? Thanks so much.
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You could easily write a script to read an RSS feed and alert you, that would not be terribly hard.
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I don't have enough knowledge to do that without further instructions — help please? Or anyone else seeing this have suggestions?
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If you are interested in writing a script, this is not something that you'd be best off having somebody spoon feed you, as you'd learn nothing this way and will be unable to revise and maintain the script.
If I were doing this in PHP I would look at this function for pulling down the feed into a string: PHP: file_get_contents - Manual , and then parsing this XML to pull out the data you care about. Then, to alert yourself, setup your Mac so that you can email an address (since most SMTP servers will reject mail sent from rouge SMTP servers run on your own Mac, I would look at using Postfix to relay to the SMTP server you normally use and authenticate to), create a cronjob and have the output of the job (the string you are searching for) emailed to yourself. YOu might need to setup an email alias in /etc/aliases to map your username on that machine to the address you want to be notified with.
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Aye, while admirable, that's more than I'm willing to learn. I always appreciate hearing from experts.
Alas, as I mentioned, Google News/Alerts doesn't search feeds *outside* of what they track.
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