ezimir/rss-filter-to-email

RSS reader with entry title filter that sends emails with new entries.

rss-filter-to-email

Reads entries from RSS feeds, filter them by title and sends them to selected email.

Descripton

Flask with WTForms to edit RSS list.

feedparser to read listed feeds, filter by title if required.

Sends new entries via email, if set to check periodically.

Installation

Clone to /path/to/rss-filter, prepare virtual env, etc..

Install python packages with pip-tools:

$ pip-sync requirements.txt

or without:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Set environment variables:

export FLASK_ENV="production"
export FLASK_SECRET_KEY="some-random-string"

export MAIL_SERVER="localhost"
export MAIL_PORT=25
export MAIL_DOMAIN="outgoing_email.domain"
export MAIL_TO="[email protected]"

Run via flask:

$ flask run

or gunicorn:

[Unit]
Description=Gunicorn instance to serve RSS-filter
After=network.target

[Service]
User=www-data
Group=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/path/to/rss-filter
Environment="PATH=/path/to/rss-filter-virtualenv/bin"
EnvironmentFile=/path/to/rss-filter-virtualenv/envvars
ExecStart=/path/to/rss-filter-virtualenv/bin/gunicorn --bind unix:/tmp/rss-filter.sock -m 007 wsgi:app

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Check every 15 minutes via cron:

*/15 * * * * export $(grep -v '^#' /path/to/rss-filter-virtualenv/envvars | grep -v '^$' | xargs) && cd /path/to/rss-filter/ && /path/to/rss-filter-virtualenv/bin/python process.py

Enjoy emails with new articles from selected RSS feeds.