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

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 18/11/18 13:04, Neil Bothwick via Liverpool wrote:
> 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.

Thank you Neil. That does sounds like another possibility.