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rsspls

Generate RSS feeds for websites that lack them

RSS & News Readers ★ 413 stars Easy setup Apache-2.0

rsspls is a small command-line tool that builds RSS feeds for websites that do not provide their own. It uses CSS selectors to extract items from web pages and outputs standard feeds you can serve and subscribe to.

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Key features

  • CSS-selector scraping
  • Generates standard RSS
  • Tiny footprint
  • Simple TOML config

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Released under the Apache-2.0 license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Written in Rust
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM

Trade-offs

  • No web interface
  • Manual selector tuning

Is rsspls secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for rsspls's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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