Read website updates from RSS, Atom, or JSON feeds and return entries in date order. Discover feeds from ordinary page URLs, filter by date or entry count, and collect titles, links, authors, and summaries.
Read RSS, Atom, JSON feeds; discover feeds behind a page.
Review the instructions the agent will receive before you install.
Reads any RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0/RDF, Atom, or JSON Feed URL into a clean, date-sorted list of
entries, and discovers the feed behind an ordinary page URL (<link rel="alternate"> or
the usual /feed, /rss.xml, /atom.xml paths). Standard library only, nothing to
install. It does not fetch full article bodies — pass an entry's link to web_extract for
that.
cronjob_manage (feeds are cheaper and more stable than
scraping the HTML front page every run). For a persistent read/unread database across
many feeds install the optional blogwatcher skill; this skill is the zero-install read.title / link / date / author / summary beats a
rendered page: podcasts, changelogs, YouTube channels, newsrooms, forum categories.None. Python 3.10+, network access to the feed host.
Run through terminal with the skill-relative script path:
python3 scripts/feed.py read https://hnrss.org/frontpage --limit 10
python3 scripts/feed.py read https://simonwillison.net/ # page URL → discovers the feed
python3 scripts/feed.py read URL --since 2026-09-01 --json # only newer entries, machine-readable
python3 scripts/feed.py discover https://example.com/ # list candidate feed URLs
| Source | Feed URL pattern |
|---|---|
| GitHub releases / commits / tags | https://github.com/OWNER/REPO/releases.atom, …/commits/BRANCH.atom, …/tags.atom |
| Subreddit / Reddit search | https://www.reddit.com/r/NAME/.rss, https://www.reddit.com/search.rss?q=… (1 req/min anon; see reddit-reading) |
| YouTube channel | https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC… |
| Hacker News | https://hnrss.org/frontpage, https://hnrss.org/newest?q=TERM |
| arXiv category | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/cs.CL |
| Substack / Medium / WordPress / Ghost | SITE/feed, medium.com/feed/@user, SITE/rss/ |
| Podcasts | the show's RSS URL from its hosting page (discover finds it) |
Output fields per entry: title, link, published (UTC ISO 8601), author, summary
(HTML stripped, ≤ 2000 chars). Entries are sorted newest-first.
① If you only have a site URL, run read on it directly; the script discovers the feed
and reports which URL it used (discovered_from). Use discover when you want to choose
between several advertised feeds (comments feed vs posts feed, per-category feeds).
② Bound the request: --limit for "latest N", --since YYYY-MM-DD for "since last
check". For a cron digest persist the last-seen published value and pass it as
--since next run.
③ For full text, hand the entry link to web_extract; feed summaries are frequently
truncated or the first paragraph only.
④ Cite the entry link, not the feed URL, when the result feeds a report
(grounded-citations).
<link rel="alternate"> and none of the
common paths reports no feed found — check the site's footer or /sitemap.xml before
concluding there is none.reddit-reading, which waits out the window, when you need more
than one Reddit call.pubDate is RFC 822 and Atom uses ISO 8601; the script normalises both to
UTC. Feeds that omit dates sort to the bottom and are dropped by --since.blocked-page-recovery
handles that class.python3 scripts/feed.py read https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases.atom --limit 1 prints one entry with a releases/tag/ link and a [atom] format tag;
discover https://simonwillison.net/ prints an /atom/ URL.
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