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I am looking to a RSS feed reader or system for Mac OS X that checks every minute or so the feed, and when there are changes it sends me instantly an email. Do you know about something similar?
Open the way
Posted 2010-11-28T11:21:06.783
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rss2email is an awesome script for this purpose (it can even parse Atom feeds). It is officially supported on Linux and Windows, but as it is a Python script, it should work on OS X just fine, as Python is installed by default on it.
To check the feeds every minute you can add an entry like this to crontab:
* * * * * /path/to/r2e run
crontab can be edited with crontab -e on most Unixes; here is an article about OS X cron variant.
whitequark
Posted 2010-11-28T11:21:06.783
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@Arjan, thanks, edited the answer. I did knew that Ruby is installed by default, but was not sure about Python. – whitequark – 2010-11-28T13:53:02.257
On what operating system? – Nifle – 2010-11-28T12:45:17.110
As an aside: many RSS feeds are cached. So, even checking every minute won't automatically mean you'll see an up-to-date feed. (See, for example, your own user feed which right now does not include your latest comment nor your latest edit of this very question yet.
– Arjan – 2010-11-28T13:35:19.747