Rss Fetch

Name: Rss Fetch
Author: vm0-ai

vm0-ai/vm0-skills

69 installs
76 repo stars
Updated August 4, 2026
vm0-ai/vm0-skills

Helps with ai & agent building tasks during AI-assisted development.

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rss-fetch is a Claude Code skill for ai & agent building. It helps solo builders move faster with AI-assisted coding.

rss-fetch
AI & Agent Building
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Rss Fetch by the numbers

69 all-time installs (skills.sh)
+1 installs in the week ending Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion tracking)
Ranked #5,786 of 16,546 AI & Agent Building skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)

npx skills add https://github.com/vm0-ai/vm0-skills --skill rss-fetch

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repo stars	★ 76
Last updated	August 4, 2026
Repository	vm0-ai/vm0-skills ↗

What it does

Helps with ai & agent building tasks during AI-assisted development.

Files

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How to Use

1. Fetch Raw RSS Feed

curl -s "https://hnrss.org/frontpage" | head -100

2. Parse RSS with xmllint

Extract titles from RSS feed:

curl -s "https://hnrss.org/frontpage" | xmllint --xpath '//item/title/text()' - 2>/dev/null

Extract titles and links:

curl -s "https://hnrss.org/frontpage" | xmllint --format - | grep -E '<title>|<link>' | head -20

3. Get Items with Details

curl -s "https://hnrss.org/frontpage" | xmllint --xpath '//item' - 2>/dev/null | xmllint --format - | head -50

4. Parse Atom Feeds

Atom feeds use <entry> instead of <item>:

curl -s "https://github.com/blog.atom" | xmllint --xpath '//entry/title/text()' - 2>/dev/null

Popular RSS Feeds

Source	URL
Hacker News	`https://hnrss.org/frontpage`
HN Best	`https://hnrss.org/best`
TechCrunch	`https://techcrunch.com/feed/`
Ars Technica	`https://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index`
The Verge	`https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml`
Reddit (any sub)	`https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/.rss`
GitHub Blog	`https://github.blog/feed/`

Examples

Fetch Hacker News Top Stories

curl -s "https://hnrss.org/frontpage?count=10" | xmllint --xpath '//item/title/text()' - 2>/dev/null | tr '\n' '\n'

Get Story Links

curl -s "https://hnrss.org/frontpage?count=5" | grep -oP '<link>\K[^<]+' | grep -v hnrss

Fetch Multiple Feeds

FEEDS=(
  "https://hnrss.org/frontpage?count=5"
  "https://techcrunch.com/feed/"
)

for feed in "${FEEDS[@]}"; do
  echo "=== $feed ==="
  curl -s "$feed" | xmllint --xpath '//item/title/text()' - 2>/dev/null | head -5
  echo ""
done

Extract Title, Link, and Date

curl -s "https://hnrss.org/frontpage?count=3" | xmllint --format - | awk '
  /<item>/ { in_item=1 }
  /<\/item>/ { in_item=0; print "---" }
  in_item && /<title>/ { gsub(/<[^>]*>/, ""); print "Title: " $0 }
  in_item && /<link>/ { gsub(/<[^>]*>/, ""); print "Link: " $0 }
  in_item && /<pubDate>/ { gsub(/<[^>]*>/, ""); print "Date: " $0 }
  '

Save Feed to File

curl -s "https://hnrss.org/frontpage" -o /tmp/hn-feed.xml
xmllint --xpath '//item/title/text()' /tmp/hn-feed.xml

HN RSS Options

Hacker News RSS (hnrss.org) supports parameters:

Parameter	Description
`count=N`	Number of items (default 20)
`points=N`	Minimum points
`comments=N`	Minimum comments
`q=keyword`	Search keyword

# Top stories with 100+ points
curl -s "https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=100&count=10"

# Search for "AI" topics
curl -s "https://hnrss.org/frontpage?q=AI&count=10"

RSS vs Atom Format

Element	RSS	Atom
Container	`<item>`	`<entry>`
Title	`<title>`	`<title>`
Link	`<link>`	`<link href="...">`
Summary	`<description>`	`<summary>`
Date	`<pubDate>`	`<published>`

Guidelines

1. Check feed format: Use head first to see if it's RSS or Atom 2. Use xmllint: Best tool for XPath queries on XML 3. Handle errors: Some feeds may be slow or rate-limited 4. Respect robots.txt: Don't hammer feeds with requests 5. Cache results: Feeds don't update every second