Following an old idea from 2007, published in my blog post titled [RSS Everything?](http://www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/2007-02-11_RSS_Everything), this set of tools is designed to work with RSS (Really Simple Syndication) in a manner consistent with the [Unix philosophy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy).
The code committed in this repository was originally old Python code from 2007. It might break your PC, harm your cat, or cause the Flying Spaghetti Monster to lose a meatball.
[Forks and pull requests](https://github.com/adulau/rss-tools) are more than welcome. Be warned: this code was initially created for experimenting with RSS workflows.
[rsscluster.py](https://github.com/adulau/rss-tools/blob/master/bin/rsscluster.py) is a simple script that clusters items from an RSS feed based on a specified time interval, expressed in days.
The `maxitem` parameter defines the maximum number of items to keep after clustering. This script can be particularly useful for platforms like Mastodon, where a user might be very active in a single day and you want to cluster their activity into a single RSS item for a defined time slot.
[rssmerge.py](https://github.com/adulau/rss-tools/blob/master/bin/rssmerge.py) is a simple script designed to aggregate RSS feeds and merge them in reverse chronological order. It outputs the merged content in text, HTML, or Markdown format. This tool is useful for tracking recent events from various feeds and publishing them on your website.
rsscount.py is a simple script to count how many items are in a RSS feed per day. This is used to build the [wiki creativity index](http://www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/WikiCreativityIndex). There is no limit for url arguments.
rsscount.py "<rss_url>" | sort
rssdir.py
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rssdir is a simply-and-dirty script to rssify any directory on the filesystem.
