satsie
Facing tons of information everyday, I prefer focusing on some of them. I use tool to bunch information and for me, there are 2 requirements for the tool:
- Check if my subscriptions are up to date.
- Keep eyes on different platforms. It is usually not that easy to find RSS feed, let alone other platforms like twitter, youtube, medium, etc. which a sign-up is always required for specific contents, grabbing unnecessary attention in account management.
Almost every RSS reader I tried can do the 1st thing but it surprised me that I found none of them could meet my 2nd requirement perfectly (to some extent). So I created satsie.
In simple, satsie would just do 1 thing once setup: compare a source between 2 timestamps, at the HTML level. And that’s why it can catch updates unless there’s a mask on the site.
On top of a simple installation, I set up a cronjob to get email notification once there’s an update. Here’s my OS and what I did:
My OS:
$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.14.4
BuildVersion: 18E226
What I did:
- Created a mail trigger called weekly.sh in the dir
satsie/bin - Set the trigger as a cronjob. Mine is every Saturday at 8 PM:
satsie $ crontab -e 0 20 * * 6 . /Users/yuqing.ji/satsie/bin/weekly.sh
And the mail in the mailbox:
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