A Free RSS Triage Bot: Let a Free Model Decide What Deserves Your Attention

Description and use

A bot that automatically filters RSS feeds using a free MonkeyCode model and produces a daily digest of the top three most relevant articles.

Problem

RSS feeds accumulate thousands of items, making it hard for solo developers to decide what to read without paid summarization APIs.

Outcome

The bot reduces a large RSS queue to a concise three‑item daily digest, enabling quick content triage without credit card costs.

Workflow

• Fetch the RSS feed and take the latest 20 entries
• Normalize each entry to a title and 300‑character excerpt
• Send the batch to a free model with a prompt that returns only JSON scores
• Sort items by score and output the top three into a digest file

Evidence

I built a four‑step pipeline that runs entirely on the free server. Each step has a single output, so failures stay visible and easy to debug.

Source

The clever part is the strict output contract. If the model returns anything except valid JSON, the script fails loudly instead of silently generating a useless paragraph.

Source