rss2sms

Takes an RSS feed and sends sms alerts as new items are added to it

Usage

Usage: rss2sms [options]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u RSS_URL, --url=RSS_URL
                        url of rss feed
  -t TO_NUM, --to=TO_NUM
                        cell number to send sms alerts to
  -f FROM_NUM, --from=FROM_NUM
                        cell number to send sms alerts to (overrides
                        environment variable TWILIO_NUMBER)
  -i RSS_ID_FIELD, --id=RSS_ID_FIELD
                        unique id rss field used for display in SMS and for
                        equality comparison (defaults to 'link')
  -d RSS_DISPLAY_FIELD, --display=RSS_DISPLAY_FIELD
                        name of rss field used for display in SMS (defaults to
                        'title')
  -c CACHE_FILENAME, --cache-filename=CACHE_FILENAME
                        optional file to cache last post in

Setup

1. First, you need to setup an account with www.Twilio.com and get an SMS number
2. Add the number to the env.variable TWILIO_NUMBER
3. Add your Twilio account id to the env.variable TWILIO_ACCT
4. Add your Twilio token to the env.variable TWILIO_TOKEN

You also need to obtain the URL to an RSS/Atom feed that you want to monitor

Examples

rss2sms --url="http://my.site.com/rss-feed" --to=+4712345678 -c mycache.txt

#Enter from-number on the cmdline:
rss2sms --url="http://my.site.com/rss-feed" --to=+4712345678 --from=+198765443 -c mycache.txt

# Send another RSS field than the title
rss2sms --url="http://my.site.com/rss-feed" --to=+4712345678 --display=link

# If your RSS uses another field name for the URL than 'link':
rss2sms --url="http://my.site.com/rss-feed" --to=+4712345678 --id=id