rssgoemail is a script that watches multiple RSS (or Atom) feeds and sends out an email digest if a new entry is found. It is a fork of the script by Abdul Ibad which used to live at http://ibad.bebasbelanja.com. It uses SimplePie for RSS handling, PHPMailer for email sending and Symfony/Cache for caching.
- PHP > 7.2.5
- a MySQL database
- a cronjob
- Clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/e-dschungel/rssgoemail - Install dependencies using composer
composer install --no-dev - Create database using
config/rssgoemail.sql - Rename
config/config.dist.phptoconfig/config.phpand edit it according to your needs, see below - Add a cronjob which accesses
rssgoemail.phpregularly
- Download
rssgoemail.zip(NOTSource Code (zip)orSource Code (tar.gz)) from https://github.com/e-dschungel/rssgoemail/releases/latest - Extract and upload it to your webserver
- Create database using
config/rssgoemail.sql - Rename
config/config.dist.phptoconfig/config.phpand edit it according to your needs, see below - Add a cronjob which accesses
rssgoemail.phpregularly
| variable | description |
|---|---|
| $rge_config['dbHost'] | hostname of the database, localhost is very common |
| $rge_config['dbUser'] | user used to connect to the database |
| $rge_config['dbPass'] | password used to connect to the database |
| $rge_config['dbBase'] | name of the database |
| $rge_config['dbTable'] | name of the table |
| $rge_config['notificationType'] | sets the notification type: "summary" one mail for all new RSS items, or "perItem" for one mail per new RSS item |
| $rge_config['emailTo'] | email adress of the recipient of the email digest, multiple recipients can be given separated by comma, e.g. $rge_config['emailTo'] = "user1@example.com, user2@example.com"; |
| $rge_config['emailFrom'] | email adress shown as sender of the digest |
| $rge_config['emailSubject'] | subject of the email digest, in perItem mode placeholders (see below) can be used |
| $rge_config['emailSubjectFeedErrorPerItem'] | subject of mail containing feed errors (only used in perItem mode) |
| $rge_config['emailBody'] | template for mail body, for placeholder see below, in summary mode this should end with an empty line as this is attached over and over to create the mail text |
| $rge_config['emailBackend'] | can be "mail" or "smtp", "mail" uses sendmail as before, "smtp" uses SMTP. If "smtp" is used all SMTP variables must be set |
| $rge_config['errorInFeed'] | warning which is shown when the feed contains errors |
| $rge_config['dateFormat'] | format of date and time, formatting specifiers like PHP's date function |
| $rge_config['cacheDir'] | cache dir, needs to be writeable |
| $rge_config['cacheTime'] | cache time in seconds, during this time no changes from feeds are recognized as the cached version is used |
| $rge_config['feedUrls'] | array with URLs of RSS or Atom feeds to be watched |
| $rge_config['SMTPHost'] | SMTP hostname |
| $rge_config['SMTPAuth'] | use SMTP authentication? true or false |
| $rge_config['SMTPUsername'] | SMTP username |
| $rge_config['SMTPPassword'] | SMTP password |
| $rge_config['SMTPSecurity'] | type of SMTP security setting, can be "starttls" or "smtps" |
| $rge_config['SMTPPort'] | SMTP port |
| placeholder | description |
|---|---|
| ##FEED_COPYRIGHT## | copyright of the feed |
| ##FEED_DESCRIPTION## | description of the feed |
| ##FEED_LANGUAGE## | language of the feed |
| ##FEED_LINK## | language of the feed |
| ##FEED_TITLE## | title of the feed |
| ##ITEM_AUTHOR_EMAIL## | email address of the item author |
| ##ITEM_AUTHOR_LINK## | link to the item author |
| ##ITEM_AUTHOR_NAME## | name of the item author |
| ##ITEM_COPYRIGHT## | copyright of the item |
| ##ITEM_CONTENT## | content of the item, does not fall back to description if not given |
| ##ITEM_DATE## | date of the RSS item (in format given by $rge_config['dateFormat']) |
| ##ITEM_DESCRIPTION## | description of the item, does not fall back to content if not given |
| ##ITEM_ENCLOSURE_LINK## | URL of the media in enclosure tag |
| ##ITEM_LINK## | URL of the RSS item |
| ##ITEM_TITLE## | title of the RSS item |
- first public release (of this fork)
- upgrade to SimplePie 1.5
- switch to PDO for database access to make script compatible to PHP 7
- use SimplePie's internal hash functions (avoids duplicated emails)
- fix for special characters in feed title
- decreased default cache time to 1800 seconds, improved documentation on cacheTime
- switch to PHPMailer to handle mail sending, this allows SMTP instead of PHPs mail function
- notification type can be configured: "summary" one mail for all new RSS items, or "perItem" for one mail per new RSS item
- mail body can be customized using placeholders
- update to latest SimplePie 1.5.6
- migration from older versions: add new configuration variables from
config.dist.phpto yourconfig.php, although sane default values will be used
- added new placeholders ##FEED_COPYRIGHT##, ##FEED_DESCRIPTION##, ##FEED_LANGUAGE##, ##FEED_LINK##, ##ITEM_AUTHOR_EMAIL##, ##ITEM_AUTHOR_LINK##, ##ITEM_AUTHOR_NAME##, ##ITEM_COPYRIGHT##, ##ITEM_CONTENT##, ##ITEM_DESCRIPTION##, ##ITEM_ENCLOSURE_LINK##
- update to PHPMailer 6.3.0
- cleanup release: no functional changes, only codingstyle improvements
- updated PHPMailer to 6.4.0
- avoid crashes if part of placeholder (like author or enclosure) is missing
- fixed checking of config parameters
- updated PHPMailer to 6.4.1
- updated PHPMailer to 6.5.0
- updated PHPMailer to 6.5.1
- updated PHPMailer to 6.5.3
- updated SimplePie to 1.5.7
- updated SimplePie to 1.5.8
- updated PHPMailer to 6.5.4
- use PHPStan
- fixed errors found by PHPStan
- fixed issue in perItem mode
- updated PHPMailer to 6.6.0
- update PHPMailer to 6.6.5
- update SimplePie to 1.7.0
- update PHPMailer to 6.7.1
- update SimplePie to 1.8.0
- use Symfony/Cache for Caching
- increase min required PHP version to 7.2.5 (due to SimplePie 1.8.0 and Symfony/Cache)
- update PHPMailer to 6.8.0
- update Symfony/Cache to 5.4.21
- update dev dependencies
- update PHPMailer to 6.8.1
- update Symfony/Cache to 5.4.28
- update dev dependencies