Sometimes I want to get updates on a news story, and it’s small or local so the coverage is sparse. I’d like to get an alert when a new news story or social media post is published.

I think google has something like this. A more private or self hosted one would be nice

    • OtterOPA
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      7 months ago

      I’m not familiar with how I’d set that up. I usually find an existing RSS feed and follow it

      edit: haven’t used Google Alerts in a while. Looks like you can have it send an email without tying it to your account. That should work fine

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    6 months ago

    This sounds like the kind of thing you could use Huginn for… I’m still picking up how to use it expediently but it does sound possible.

    Update: I have since abandoned Huginn due to an incredible amount of instability when using it with an external Postgres instance. Can’t say I would recommend it unfortunately