blogwatcher

To monitor RSS feeds automatically, you need a tool that consolidates feed updates and stores article state. This skill uses blogwatcher-cli to track new posts from RSS or Atom sources, managing read and unread items across all subscribed blogs for centralized tracking.

Yes, you can import OPML files to bulk subscribe to blog feeds. The skill processes OPML imports to add multiple RSS or Atom feed subscriptions at once, allowing you to quickly scale your blog monitoring setup without adding each URL manually.

When a blog lacks an RSS or Atom feed, the skill uses an HTML scraping fallback to track updates. It first attempts automatic feed discovery from the homepage, and if unavailable, scrapes the HTML content directly to capture and store new post state.

Yes, network access is required to track blogs with blogwatcher-cli. The skill needs an active network connection to reach blog homepages, parse RSS or Atom feeds, run HTML scraping fallback, and fetch the latest article updates for read and unread management.

The best way to manage read and unread states across multiple blogs is using a dedicated feed tracker. This skill stores article state centrally via blogwatcher-cli, ensuring you can track which posts you have read across all subscribed RSS and Atom sources.

RSS feed monitoring fails to parse blog updates when feeds are unavailable or incompatible. The skill requires compatible feeds to parse and store article state, but mitigates this by attempting automatic feed discovery and falling back to HTML scraping when standard parsing fails.