RSS Please

Version 0.12.0 released

wes@wezm.net (Wesley Moore) — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:21:14 +1000

RSS Please is a command line tool that allows you to generate RSS feeds from web pages. Parts of the page are extracted using CSS selectors and a feed generated from the matching items. RSS Please runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD, and more.

The 0.12.0 release has been published. RSS Please now supports per-feed update hooks that are run when a feed is updated. 

Version 0.12.0</h2>
This release</a> adds a new optional per-feed property, post_update_hook</a>, to the configuration file specifying a command to run when a feed is updated. The `RSSPLS_FEED_FILE</code> environment variable is set in the environment of the spawned command with the absolute path to the feed file that was updated.`
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Version 0.11.2 released wes@wezm.net (Wesley Moore) — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:19:41 +1000 RSS Please is a command line tool that allows you to generate RSS feeds from web pages. Parts of the page are extracted using CSS selectors and a feed generated from the matching items. RSS Please runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD, and more. The 0.11.2 release has been published. RSS Please can now be configured to disable TLS certificate verification, which is useful for handling self-signed certificates. Version 0.11.2</h2> This release</a> adds a new optional boolean property, insecure_disable_certificate_verification</a>, to the configuration file (default false</code>) indicating whether to disable verification of TLS certificates. This setting applies to the HTTP client used by RSS Please, thus it will apply to every feed in the configuration. It should only be enabled in specific situations where certificates fail verification due to being self-signed or missing intermediate certificates. Full Changelog</a></li> Download</a></li> </ul> If you find rsspls</code> useful please consider a one-off or recurring contribution to support development on GitHub Sponsors</a>. Version 0.10.0 released wes@wezm.net (Wesley Moore) — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 10:25:14 +1000 RSS Please is a command line tool that allows you to generate RSS feeds from web pages. Parts of the page are extracted using CSS selectors and a feed generated from the matching items. RSS Please runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD, and more. The 0.10.0 release has been published. RSS Please now optionally supports reading web pages from local files. Version 0.10.0</h2> This release</a> adds a new optional boolean property, file_urls</code>, to the configuration file (default false</code>) indicating whether to allow fetching web pages from file</code> URLs. When set to true</code>, feed.config.url</a> can be a URL using the file</code> scheme to a local HTML file like: file:///home/wmoore/Documents/example.html</code>. This feature enables workflows where the HTML is generated locally before running RSS Please, or fetching the HTML using a different mechanism such as a cURL</a> invocation or headless browser. This latter option might allow generating RSS feeds from sites that require authentication or JavaScript to render. A statically linked binary for ARM64 Linux is also published for this release, which should run on Raspberry Pis, and other ARM based Linux devices. Full Changelog</a></li> Download</a></li> </ul> If you find rsspls</code> useful please consider a one-off or recurring contribution to support development on GitHub Sponsors</a>. Version 0.9.0 released wes@wezm.net (Wesley Moore) — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:53:46 +1000 The 0.9.0 release has been published. The summary selector now supports matching multiple elements, tilde expansion is performed on the output path, and more. Version 0.9.0</h2> This release</a> adds support for matching multiple elements in the feed.config.summary</code> selector. These may be specified comma separated like p, blockquote</code>, or as an array like ["p", "blockquote"]</code>. The array form allows the order the elements are added to the generated feed to be controlled. See the documentation for more details</a>. Tilde expansion is now performed on the output</code> path in the configuration file. This allows a path like ~/Documents/rsspls</code> to be specified in order to output into the Documents</code> folder of the user running rsspls</code>. The page caches will now be invalidated if the configuration is changed. This way feeds will always be regenerated when the config file is edited. Previously they would only be regenerated when the source HTML changed. It’s now possible to build rsspls</code> using the native TLS library of the platform instead of rustls</code>. This is particularly handy on Windows ARM where building the ring</code> dependency of rustls</code> currently requires having clang</code> installed</a>. To build with native-tls</code> do the following: cargo build --release --locked --no-default-features --features native-tls</code></pre> Full Changelog</a> If you find rsspls</code> useful you can sponsor me on GitHub</a>. Version 0.8.1 and Website wes@wezm.net (Wesley Moore) — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:30:39 +1000 The 0.8.1 release has been published and RSS Please now has its own website. Version 0.8.1</h2> Many thanks to Lcchy on GitHub</a> for these new features in this release</a>: Add per feed user-agent option to config file #27</a></li> Add a media selector to include as RSS enclosure #29</a></li> Add option to proxy requests #32</a></li> Recover from item parsing error and continue #35</a></li> </ul> Full Changelog</a> If you find rsspls</code> useful you can sponsor me on GitHub</a>. Website</h2> RSS Please now has it’s own website. Of course it has an RSS feed: https://rsspls.7bit.org/index.xml</a>. The website is built with Zola</a> and uses a modified version of the Juice theme</a>. I’ve moved a lot of the content that was in the README to the website. This also allowed me to expand on things like the configuration file. The source of the website is also open-source</a>. If you’d like to update the content or fix an issue contributions are welcome.