RSS / Atom

Fetch news / blog / podcast feeds. Backed by the rss extension using feed-rs (handles RSS 2.0, Atom 1.0, JSON Feed).

Use when

• "What's new on Hacker News / this blog / this podcast?"
• Heartbeat digest: "what happened today in my feeds"
• Monitoring release notes / changelog feeds

Do not use when

• Real-time Twitter / Discord / Slack — different channels
• Free-form HTML scraping — use fetch-url

Tools

• status — extension info
• fetch_feed — url + optional limit (default 20, max 100), include_content (default false)

Entries are normalized to {id, title, link, published, summary, content, authors}, sorted newest first.

Tips

• include_content: false by default — keeps responses small. Flip it when you need the body text (e.g. to pass into summarize).
• Combine with rss + summarize + heartbeat to give kate a daily digest.