RSS Feed for Any Website

An RSS feed for any website is what people search when they want change alerts without a reader. They do not actually want XML. They want to know when the page moved, in a place they already look.

RSS.app and similar tools generate a feed from a URL. You still have to subscribe, skim, and decide if the item matters. AyeWatch skips the feed. It summarizes the change and pings you.

When a generated feed is still right

If you live in Feedly or Inoreader and you want every item in one river, generate the feed. The RSS monitoring post covers that habit. If the river is how you mute things, you wanted an alert, not a feed.

AyeWatch is not an RSS generator. There is no XML URL to paste into a reader. That is intentional. The product is the summary, not another stream.

How to get the outcome without the feed

Paste the page URL. Name what a "new item" means: a new post title, a new job, a new price. Get push on Free Preview, or Slack and email on paid. Free Preview is six lifetime runs, three topics, Daily or slower. Pro is $9 a month.

Sites that already publish RSS should be subscribed as RSS. Do not wrap a good feed in a page watcher. Use the page watcher on sites that refused to ship a feed.

Readers versus pings

A reader is for catching up. A ping is for not missing. Most "RSS for any website" searches are the second job wearing the first job's name. If you want the river, use Feedly. If you want the ping, watch the URL.

Start with one page that has no feed. If the first AyeWatch alert is the item you would have seen in a fake RSS entry, you did not need the XML. An RSS feed for any website is a workaround from a decade when readers were the only inbox. If you already abandoned the reader, Get the ping. Watch the page. Skip the fake feed. If you wanted an inbox, use Feedly. If you wanted a ping, you are on the right page.