Watching RSS Feeds for Keywords in Pipedream

Back in the day, I used to run a website called rssWatcher. (If you want, you can read the original launch announcement from 2004.) The idea was simple. You would sign up, then create a list of RSS feeds and corresponding keywords. The service would check this on a schedule and let you know when a match was found. I built this in ColdFusion and I honestly don’t remember when I shut it down, but it was in my mind recently and thought I’d take a stab at building a simple version of this on my favorite service, Pipedream. Here’s how I did it. Raymond Camden… more →
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