RSS2Email is a tool that allows you to receive RSS feed updates through email. It is an open-source project that you can find on GitHub.
In this tutorial, we'll walk through the steps to install RSS2Email on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before we start installing RSS2Email, let's make sure the system is up-to-date with the latest packages.
To do that, run the following command as a sudo user:
sudo apk update && sudo apk upgrade
RSS2Email is a Python package, so we need to install Python3 and pip3 to install it.
To install Python3 and pip3, run the following command:
sudo apk add python3 py3-pip
Now that we have Python3 and pip3 installed, let's use pip3 to install RSS2Email.
To install RSS2Email using pip3, run the following command:
sudo pip3 install rss2email
After installing RSS2Email, we need to configure it to receive RSS feed updates through email.
Create a new configuration file in the ~/.config/rss2email/ directory, using the rss2emailrc.template file as a template:
cp ~/.local/share/virtualenvs/rss2email-fka6mq5c/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rss2email/rss2emailrc.template ~/.config/rss2email/rss2emailrc
Open the configuration file with your preferred text editor:
nano ~/.config/rss2email/rss2emailrc
In this file, we need to specify the email address that will receive the updates, and the RSS feeds to monitor.
Here's an example configuration file with one RSS feed:
[DEFAULT]
to = user@example.com
from = rss@example.com
[RSSFeed1]
url = https://www.example.com/rss.xml
frequency = 60
max_items = 10
In this example, RSSFeed1 is the name of the RSS feed, url is the URL of the RSS feed, frequency is the number of minutes between checking for updates, and max_items is the maximum number of items to include in each email.
Save and close the file.
Now that we have configured RSS2Email, let's test it by running the following command:
rss2email
This command will check for updates, create an email with the updates, and send it to the email address we specified in the configuration file.
In this tutorial, we went through the steps to install RSS2Email on Alpine Linux Latest, and configure it to receive RSS feed updates through email. With RSS2Email, you can keep up-to-date with your favorite websites without having to check them manually.
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