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> So for fun, I wanted to see how many steps it would take to get the information contained in those alerts into a usable RSS feed.

The author did it for fun, but if you ever find yourself in this situation and need a solution fast, consider Kill The Newsletter[1]. Free, easy to set up, no accounts needed, open source[2].

[1]: https://kill-the-newsletter.com

[2]: https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter

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> Free, easy to set up, no accounts needed, open source

> An error occurred during a connection to kill-the-newsletter.com.

I guess braving the HN flood takes some nontrivial resources. And there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Kill the Newsletter is great. I'm subscribed to a number of Patreons and last week I got fed up with the lack of RSS feed for non-audio posts, and got the idea to do something sort of like Chris Hardie and bash together a web server which would receive emails and post them to an RSS feed.

Very glad I looked around and found Kill the Newsletter before I wasted my weekend!

I’d actually like to have the reverse, an RSS-to-email service.

https://pypi.org/project/rss2email/

Huginn does this well.

https://github.com/huginn/huginn

Those are a dime a dozen, and a web search returns multiple on the first page. They tend to be submitted to HN. Examples:

* https://blogtrottr.com

* https://feedrabbit.com

* https://feedsub.com

Blogtrottr had been working for me for a half dozen years, no fuss.

It's monitized by an ad at the top and bottom of each email.

It also provides an option to send an initial email with the full history of the feed to date.

No affiliation, I just happen to use it.

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