Wiseflow rss-reader

Discover the RSS/Atom feed URL for a website, then run the fetch-rss.mjs script to retrieve and parse articles from the feed.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/TeamWiseFlow/wiseflow

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/TeamWiseFlow/wiseflow "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/addons/officials/skills/rss-reader" ~/.claude/skills/teamwiseflow-wiseflow-rss-reader && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: addons/officials/skills/rss-reader/SKILL.md

source content

RSS / Atom Feed Reader

Use this skill when:

The user wants to monitor or retrieve updates from a website
The user provides an RSS or Atom feed URL directly
You need to efficiently collect multiple articles from one source without visiting each page

Step 1 — Discover the feed URL

If you already have an RSS/Atom URL, skip to Step 2.

Method A — page source Navigate to the website, take a snapshot, and look for

<link rel="alternate">

tags in

<head>

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/feed">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="/atom.xml">

Method B — common paths (try one at a time until one returns XML)

/feed  /feed.xml  /rss  /rss.xml  /atom.xml  /index.xml
/?feed=rss2  /feeds/posts/default

Method C — look for RSS icons 🟠 or links labelled "RSS", "Subscribe", "Feed".

A valid feed URL returns XML starting with

<rss

<feed

, or

<rdf:RDF

Step 2 — Run the script

node /path/to/wiseflow/skills/rss-reader/scripts/fetch-rss.mjs <feed_url> [--limit N] [--skip url1,url2,...]

Option	Description
`--limit N`	Max entries to return (default: 20)
`--skip url1,url2,...`	Skip entries whose URLs are already processed (deduplication)

Output is markdown with two sections:

Full-content articles — entries where the feed includes the complete article body (>200 chars). Process these directly; no need to visit the article URL.
Summary-only links — entries with only a short snippet. Visit each URL to retrieve the full content.

Step 3 — Handle results

For full-content articles: extract title, author, date, and content directly from the script output.
For summary-only links: use
```
browser.navigate(url)
```
to fetch each article page.
Pass the script output directly to the user or to your processing pipeline.

Edge cases

Situation	Action
Feed returns 404	Try alternative paths from Step 1
Feed requires login	Follow the browser-guide skill
Script error "Failed to parse feed"	Feed XML may be malformed; report the URL to the user
Empty feed	Report: "This RSS feed has no entries."