news.routley.io

Hello! This repo houses the code that generates my personal RSS feed. It's hosted at news.routley.io. The code itself is non-generic and personalised to my use case, but it might serve as interesting inspiration.

I've also written a blog post about this.

How does it work?

Building the website

The RSS feed is generated by the script main.go. It:

1. Stores a list of RSS feeds to pull from
2. Iterates over them, and reads the posts from the last month and stores them in a big list of all posts
3. Sorts the posts by time, and templates them into a HTML file, which it writes to docs/index.html

Hosting the website

The website is hosted by GitHub pages, which serves the files in the docs directory.

Automation

We use a GitHub Action to run the main.go script every hour. It commits any changes to docs/index.html, which are automatically deployed by GitHub Pages ✨