[Liverpool] News feed reader with automatic alert based on search words

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 08:39:45 +0000, Sebastian Arcus via Liverpool wrote:

> On 14/11/18 08:17, Sebastian Arcus via Liverpool wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I'm looking for a news feed reader which can search incoming feeds
> > for particular words or phrases and alert. This seems to me fairly
> > basic, but looking at the feature list of feed reader software so
> > far, I can't seem to find any which will do it. Or maybe I haven't
> > dug deep enough into the docs. Is anybody here into feed readers, and
> > could drop a useful suggestion please?  
> 
> In case anybody finds it useful, I've managed to cobble something 
> together using the following:
> 
> 1. The RSS/news reader in Thunderbird.
> 
> 2. A bodged RSS url for Google News - which returns only the news items 
> containing the words/phrases I am interested in. Google News supposedly 
> doesn't support RSS feeds any more - and they removed the corresponding 
> RSS button on their pages, but if you craft the url yourself in a 
> specific way, it still works :-)
> 
> 3. The Mailbox Alert addon for Thunderbird, which can generate alerts 
> for new messages arriving only in a specific folder(s).

I wondered about a Python script using the feedparser module. That could
subscribe to your feeds, parse the results and alert on matches, all from
a single script.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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