Overview
Cron-job RSS/Atom summarizer. Fetches feeds, extracts full article text with readability-lxml, batches prompts to Azure OpenAI, and writes static HTML and JSON digests. No daemon, no database. Powers feeds.carmo.io.
How it works
The fetcher pulls feed entries, fetches linked pages when needed, and uses readability-lxml to extract the article body. Summaries are generated via Azure OpenAI, then published as static HTML and JSON output. Add it to crontab and forget it.
Features
Full-text extraction
readability-lxml extracts the article body, not just the RSS description.
Azure OpenAI summarization
Uses the OpenAI Python client against Azure OpenAI for async summarization.
Cron-friendly
One Python script, no daemon.
Static output
Writes both HTML and JSON digests for publishing.
Architecture
Posts
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