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Scrape blog posts via RSS feeds (free, no API key) with Apify fallback for JS-heavy sites. Use when you need to monitor competitor blogs, track industry content, or aggregate blog posts by keyword.

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Install
$ npx -y skills add gooseworks-ai/goose-skills --skill blog-feed-monitor --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/blog-feed-monitor

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Scrape blog posts via RSS feeds (free, no API key) with Apify fallback for JS-heavy sites. Use when you need to monitor competitor blogs, track industry content, or aggregate blog posts by keyword.

SKILL.md

blog-feed-monitor.SKILL.md
name: blog-feed-monitor
description: >
  Scrape blog posts via RSS feeds (free, no API key) with Apify fallback for
  JS-heavy sites. Use when you need to monitor competitor blogs, track industry
  content, or aggregate blog posts by keyword.

Blog Feed Monitor

Scrape blog posts via RSS/Atom feeds (free) with optional Apify fallback for JS-heavy sites.

Quick Start

No API key needed for RSS mode.

# Scrape a blog's RSS feed
python3 skills/blog-feed-monitor/scripts/scrape_blogs.py \
  --urls "https://example.com/blog" --days 30

# Multiple blogs with keyword filter
python3 skills/blog-feed-monitor/scripts/scrape_blogs.py \
  --urls "https://blog1.com,https://blog2.com" --keywords "AI,marketing" --output summary

# Force Apify for JS-heavy sites
python3 skills/blog-feed-monitor/scripts/scrape_blogs.py \
  --urls "https://example.com" --mode apify

How It Works

Auto Mode (default)

1. For each URL, tries to discover an RSS/Atom feed:

  • Checks HTML `<link rel="alternate">` tags
  • Probes common paths: `/feed`, `/rss`, `/atom.xml`, `/feed.xml`, `/rss.xml`, `/blog/feed`, `/index.xml`

2. Parses discovered feeds (supports RSS 2.0 and Atom) 3. If any URLs fail, falls back to Apify `jupri/rss-xml-scraper` (if token available) 4. Applies date and keyword filtering client-side

> **Note:** The Apify fallback actor `jupri/rss-xml-scraper` may need updating -- it has not been verified recently. RSS mode works reliably without it.

RSS Mode

Only tries RSS feeds, no Apify fallback.

Apify Mode

Uses Apify actor directly, skipping RSS discovery.

CLI Reference

| Flag | Default | Description | |------|---------|-------------| | `--urls` | *required* | Blog URL(s), comma-separated | | `--keywords` | none | Keywords to filter (comma-separated, OR logic) | | `--days` | 30 | Only include posts from last N days | | `--max-posts` | 50 | Max posts to return | | `--mode` | auto | `auto` (RSS + fallback), `rss` (RSS only), `apify` (Apify only) | | `--output` | json | Output format: `json` or `summary` | | `--token` | env var | Apify token (only needed for Apify mode/fallback) | | `--timeout` | 300 | Max seconds for Apify run |

Cost

  • **RSS mode:** Free (no API, no tokens)
  • **Apify mode:** Uses `jupri/rss-xml-scraper` -- minimal Apify credits
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