feeder 📫

Aggregates news feed updates and sends them to your email inbox.

• Supports Atom and RSS/RDF feeds.
• Supports subscribing to feed URL directly, or scanning for a link tag at a given URL.
• Uses Golang html/template to customize the email body.
• Update timestamps persisted to YAML file.
• Optionally resolves relative URLs
• Optionally uses Reddit bearer token to request RSS feeds

Usage

• Install via go install github.com/fgeller/feeder or download a release.
• Create a config file, customizing email settings and file paths.
• Add subscribed feeds either by:
  • maintaing the feeds config file manually, or
  • using feeder via feeder -subscribe https://example.com/blog/
• Run via feeder manually, or set up recurring execution, e.g. via crontab -e
• feeder -help output:

Usage of feeder:

  -config string
        Path to config file (default $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/feeder/config.yml)
  -subscribe string
        URL to feed to subscribe to
  -version
        Print version information

By default feeder will try to download the configured feeds and send
the latest entries via email. If the subscribe flag is provided, 
instead of downloading feeds, feeder tries to subscribe to the feed 
at the given URL and persists the augmented feeds config.

Configuration

• feeds-file is the list of feeds you are subscribed to.

• timestamp-file is required to persist what updates have been seen.

• email-template-file is an optional Golang html/template to format the sent email.

• email contains the configuration for sending emails. The from address will also be the to address and the smtp object allows for standard smtp host and auth configuration.

• max-entries-per-feed is the maximum number of entries to send per feed.

• reddit allows configuring client-id and client-secret so feeder can request and use a bearer token for Reddit RSS feeds.

Example Config

feeds-file: '/home/fgeller/.config/feeder/feeds.yml'
timestamp-file: '/home/fgeller/.config/feeder/timestamps.yml'
email-template-file: '/home/fgeller/.config/feeder/email.tmpl'
reddit:
  client-secret: some-secret-characters
  client-id: some-id-characters
email:
  from: example@gmail.com
  smtp:
    host: smtp.gmail.com
    port: 587
    user: example@gmail.com
    pass: passwort

Example Feeds Config

- name: 'irreal'
  url: https://irreal.org/blog/?feed=rss2
- name: The Go Blog
  url: https://blog.golang.org/blog/feed.atom

Alternatives

• blogtrottr
• mailbrew