What CoIsland watches in RSS / Atom

Each monitor kind brings its own query and its own card in the notch.

How to watch a feed from your Mac’s notch

feed:https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/releases.atom
feed:https://news.ycombinator.com/rss keyword:Swift keyword:macOS
feed:https://go.dev/blog/feed.atom

Connect RSS / Atom walks through the connector, private feeds and keywords.

Connect it in three steps

  1. Add an RSS / Atom connector. Public feeds need nothing more; a private feed takes its site and a user and password, or a token.

  2. Pick New entries, paste the feed's address or start from GitHub releases, Hacker News or a blog, and add keywords if you want.

  3. Test shows the entries it reads now; the first check only records them.

Built for RSS / Atom

  • RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF) and Atom 1.0, read with no third-party code.
  • The alert shows the whole article when the feed carries it, remote images held until you load them.
  • Polite: a feed that has not changed answers Not Modified and is not downloaded again.
  • A private feed's password stays in the macOS Keychain and goes only to its site.

Then hand it to an agent

A click on the alert opens the agent in a terminal under it, with the whole alert as its first message.

RSS / Atom questions

How do I get notified of new GitHub releases on my Mac?

Add an RSS / Atom connector, then a New entries monitor on github.com/OWNER/REPO/releases.atom. Each new release opens the notch with its tag and notes.

Can it watch Hacker News for a keyword?

Yes. Watch news.ycombinator.com/rss with a keyword, or hnrss.org/newest?q=WORD for every new story that mentions it.

Other connectors

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