HungryHippo VS subscriptions-digest

It seems that RSS feed generators are a bit like static site generators: it's often thought to be easier to make your own than to learn to use someone else's.

Anyway, here's another self-hosted open source RSS feed generator for arbitrary websites: https://github.com/hueyy/HungryHippo

HungryHippo generates RSS feeds for websites that don't have one. If the website you're trying to monitor is public it might be supported already. If not, you can always send in a pull request or open an issue. It can be hosted with a single docker image, so it's quite straightforward.

This could nicely supplement my GitHub automation that emails feed digests https://github.com/mhitza/subscriptions-digest

Similarly to my repository, I think I would suggest the option to fetch the configuration file from an external resource defined via an action secret. For my automation I'm using a Gist (not sure if Gitlab has same thing; also private but publicly accessible snippets).

At least that way you can keep your own feed configuration while allowing those that fork the repository to not have to manually fix conflicts within the feeds.toml config.

Being displeased with feed reader experience I wrote up a quick script and GitHub automation that generates a daily digest email for my subscriptions.

I have been using this setup for a week at this point, and I found it pleasant enough that I thought others might find a use for it as well.

https://github.com/mhitza/subscriptions-digest