A couple of years ago, IFTTT did a thing where they asked people to sign up to premium and they could pay whatever they like and could keep the service forever. I didn’t use many of the services, but thought it made sense to try and preserve something so useful for in case I did need it. In the meantime, I would allow it to check some RSS feeds and alert me when certain keywords came up.
Some time goes by and the ambitions of IFTTT grow, they now rename the service I pay for as Legacy. Seems ominous, but I’m only using it for RSS so nothing to worry about.
Fast forward to yesterday and I get an email to say that they’re moving me to a new premium service and doubling what I pay. It left a bad taste in my mouth. I hate when companies do this. Especially when they promised I could keep my old thing at the same price forever.
Anyway, since they’ve clearly lost their mind in the pursuit of AI supremacy, I may as well just host this myself.
So is there a self hosted solution for RSS where I can get notifications when some RSS feeds publish indiscriminately and others when specific keywords come up?
Something I can put in a Docker container on my RPi, set and forget.
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n8n.io works pretty great for individuals and small teams, open source and self-hostable.
Just wanted to say thanks, I ended up going with n8n.
You should add a community for it over on one of your instances.
Reminds me of Node Red. Feels like it’s probably a lot more complicated than what I’m looking for though, which is basically just phone notifications of certain RSS feeds
Ntfy maybe?
on that other website that i was using before lemmy, someone says that if you complain to support, they let you keep the $2 month subscription instead of $4. Although in those cases I would just cancel out of spite. They can’t increase the price by 100% with just 4 days notice!
That’s why I’m looking into a replacement. My subscription was mostly about me supporting and since they’re unappreciative, I’ll look elsewhere.
Not sure if it fits the bill, but Changedetection.io works well for notifications and changes to websites. You can target feeds too but there’s some xpath involved I believe.
Besides lots of other cool stuff it can do (including monitoring for a lot of your self hosted stuff), HomeAssistsnt has the Feedreader integration, which lets you poll RSS feeds. You can then create automations to send notifications to you through the HomeAssistsnt companion app.
Feedreader defaults to polling once per hour, but you can change this in the configuration.
This might be a little more than you’re asking for, but I would recommend something like Node-RED with a feedparser. Reason being: it opens up a lot of options and could be a useful tool for things other than this one use case.
I’m still using Feedly after Google reader shut down, I don’t pay anything
rss2exec
I tried to look this up in a search engine and got nothing back, what is this?
