What is an emit feed?

An emit feed turns sources — RSS feeds, plain web pages, or a plain-language description of an interest — into one live RSS/Atom feed: emit discovers or takes your sources, monitors them, scores every new item against your prompt with an LLM, and emits only the items above your threshold. The output is a standard feed you can read anywhere and broadcast to email, Slack or Discord, or webhooks. (In the API this object is called a watcher.)

Can I filter feeds I already have?

Yes — bring your own feed URLs and add a filter prompt. That is the same feed primitive without discovery: your 20 feeds in, one merged, deduplicated, filtered feed out.

How much do emit feeds cost?

Creating a feed is free (including its first source discovery). It then meters the same prepaid credit balance as emails: 1 credit per 5 items the relevance filter judges, 1 credit per item summarized, and 25 credits to re-run discovery ($1.60 per 1,000 credits). Polling sources and serving the output feed are free — a feed filtering ~40 items a day costs about $0.38 a month.

FEEDS · ANYTHING → RSS

Describe it once. Never hunt for it again.

Write what you want to follow in plain language — "vintage synthesizer restorations and new Eurorack module releases" — and emit builds the feed: it discovers matching sources, watches them on your cadence, scores every new item against your prompt, and emits only what clears your bar. The output is a durable, standards-compliant RSS/Atom feed. Read it anywhere. Pipe it anywhere.

prompt → discover sources → monitor → filter → Atom / JSON Feed → newsletter · slack · webhook · your reader

Feeds people actually run

"Recall notices and safety bulletins for the equipment we operate" → a compliance email digest.
"New self-hosted app releases and breaking changes in the ones we run" → one RSS feed in the reader you already use.
"City planning agendas and zoning notices for our neighborhood" → an email alert the day they post.
"Security advisories affecting Postgres, Redis, or nginx" → straight into the on-call Slack channel.
"Competitor pricing or packaging changes" → filtered from their blogs and changelogs, summarized, emailed Monday morning.

Each of these is one API call — and each ends in a plain RSS feed URL, so it also works with every reader, dashboard, and automation tool that already speaks RSS.

The sources are yours to see

Every feed shows you exactly what it watches and why — each source carries its discovery rationale, last-check status, and how many items it has actually contributed. Prune what doesn't earn its keep, add sites by URL (pages without feeds are watched too), and re-run discovery when your prompt evolves. No black box.

The filter shows its work

Every item gets a relevance score and a one-line reason, carried on the feed itself. Filtered-out items stay in an audit view — when you wonder "why didn't I see X," the answer is one click away. Tap more like this or less like this and the threshold tunes itself. Borderline items get their full page fetched and re-judged, not guessed at from a headline.

Already know your sources? Skip discovery.

The same primitive filters feeds you already have: paste your feed URLs, add a prompt, get one merged, de-duplicated, filtered feed back. The same story syndicated by five outlets collapses to one item. Turn on summaries and every item arrives pre-digested.

One call to make it a newsletter

curl -X POST https://api.rssemit.com/v1/watchers \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EMIT_KEY" \
  -d '{"prompt": "security advisories affecting postgres, redis, or nginx"}'
# → { "atom_url": "https://api.rssemit.com/w/wf_…/atom.xml", … }

curl -X POST https://api.rssemit.com/v1/watchers/$ID/pipe \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EMIT_KEY" \
  -d '{"from_email": "digest@yourdomain.dev", "schedule": "daily"}'
# → a daily email digest of everything the feed emits

The output is just a standard feed, so everything emit already does — scheduling, templates, delivery from your own domain — works on it unchanged. (In the API these are watcher objects — hence /v1/watchers.) So does everything else that speaks RSS: your reader, n8n, Zapier, a Slack channel via a chat broadcast.

Pricing

Feeds meter the same prepaid balance as emails: 1 credit per 5 items the filter judges, 1 credit per item summarized ($1.60 per 1,000 credits). Polling and the output feed are free — and the feed is never gated, because a platform that traps your data isn't one you can trust with your attention.

Create a feed → Read the docs