| name | RSS / Atom |
| description | Fetch and parse RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds. |
| requires | {"bins":[],"env":[]} |
RSS / Atom
Fetch news / blog / podcast feeds. Backed by the rss extension using feed-rs
(handles RSS 2.0, Atom 1.0, JSON Feed).
Use when
- "What's new on Hacker News / this blog / this podcast?"
- Heartbeat digest: "what happened today in my feeds"
- Monitoring release notes / changelog feeds
Do not use when
- Real-time Twitter / Discord / Slack — different channels
- Free-form HTML scraping — use
fetch-url
Tools
status — extension info
fetch_feed — url + optional limit (default 20, max 100), include_content (default false)
Entries are normalized to {id, title, link, published, summary, content, authors},
sorted newest first.
Tips
include_content: false by default — keeps responses small. Flip it when you
need the body text (e.g. to pass into summarize).
- Combine with
rss + summarize + heartbeat to give kate a daily digest.