rss-watch.pl

Perl script to monitor RSS feeds and execute scripts.

config

The config file is stored in ~/.config/rss-watch/config. Example configuration file:

[feed FeedName]
url = https://rss.example.com/
script = /home/user/script_to_exec.sh '$title' '$link' '$guid<isPermaLink>'

This will query the url specified by the url key for an RSS feed and execute the given script with the arguments title and link from the feed. Attributes can be selected by enclosing the attribue key in <> characters. For example, to select the isPermaLink attribute of the guid key, the selector would be $guid<isPermaLink>. Multiple script keys can be specified on new lines, which will all be executed.

Only new entries will be acted on. The file ~/.local/share/rss-watch/latest/FeedName will store the last guid value from the feed.

Use cron, or other tools to run this script periodically.