RSS Automation Skill | Agent Skills

RSS Automation

Monitor and aggregate RSS/Atom feeds for automated content tracking and notification.

Capabilities

Parse RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds
Filter entries by keywords, date, author
Track seen/new entries to avoid duplicates
Push new items to Telegram, Slack, or other channels
Schedule periodic feed checks via cron

Usage

Parse a Feed

import feedparser

feed = feedparser.parse("https://example.com/feed.xml")
for entry in feed.entries[:10]:
    print(f"{entry.title} - {entry.link}")
    print(f"  Published: {entry.get('published', 'N/A')}")

Monitor Multiple Feeds

import feedparser, json, hashlib
from pathlib import Path

SEEN_FILE = Path("~/.openclaw/rss-seen.json").expanduser()

def load_seen():
    if SEEN_FILE.exists():
        return json.loads(SEEN_FILE.read_text())
    return {}

def save_seen(seen):
    SEEN_FILE.write_text(json.dumps(seen))

def check_feed(url, seen):
    feed = feedparser.parse(url)
    new_entries = []
    for entry in feed.entries:
        entry_id = hashlib.md5(entry.link.encode()).hexdigest()
        if entry_id not in seen.get(url, []):
            new_entries.append(entry)
            seen.setdefault(url, []).append(entry_id)
    return new_entries

Cron Integration

Set up a cron job to check feeds periodically:

Schedule: every 2 hours
Payload: "Check RSS feeds and push new items"

Dependencies

pip install feedparser

Feed Sources Examples

| Source | Feed URL | |--------|----------| | Hacker News | https://hnrss.org/frontpage | | TechCrunch | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ | | ArXiv CS.AI | http://arxiv.org/rss/cs.AI | | GitHub Trending | Use web scraping instead |

Important Notes

Some feeds require User-Agent headers
Rate limit feed checks (don't poll more than every 15 minutes)
Store seen entries persistently to survive restarts

Agent Skills: RSS Automation

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