r/homeassistant • u/Cats_are_Love_1979 • 14h ago

Does anyone here use RSS feeds for news? Feedreader, or Feedparser (HACS) integration?

I'm looking to set up an RSS feed to incorporate the top news stories of the day into my good morning text to speech from my voice assistant. I see some tutorials on youtube using Feedreader, but I don't really want to go and do a bunch of coding in my configuration.yaml or custom components file. I want something a bit more simple to use.

The goal is to get an RSS feed (or any news integration for that matter) into home assistant which I can then feed into Open AI to give me a brief text to speech summary of the top stories globally today.

Does anyone else use RSS feeds for news? How did you integrate them? Is there another, better method for getting news into Home Assistant? Interested to hear feedback, thanks!

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u/DotGroundbreaking50 12h ago

No, I have HA prompt google home to play the news when I enter my office in the morning. It plays the NPR news brief.

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u/F1rstxLas7 11h ago

Yes, but not for the conventional reason of receiving news updates.

My website has an RSS feed that gets updated when I publish a new blog post. I have Feedparser tracking that feed in Home Assistant and when a new item shows up, a python script runs that automatically posts it to my Bluesky account. Since it's not mission critical and my mini PC is running 24/7 anyway, I figured why not let HA handle it?

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u/GodSaveUsFromPettyMo 14h ago

Not in HA but unless you really only want a few heads or a UX nightmare, maybe a bit of AI processing and great selectivity is needed. I saw your post via RSS…

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u/Cats_are_Love_1979 13h ago

Interesting, how would I do this?

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u/brinkre 13h ago

I use the HA scrape functionality to get the latest main item from the Dutch news site.

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u/tchansen 13h ago

Feedly but I don't know of a HomeAssistant integration.

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u/goldenjm 9h ago

I'm the founder of a free TTS app that might be what you're looking for, www.Paper2Audio.com. I add news articles to it each morning, then listen throughout the day. I typically use the app to listen, but for your workflow, you would want to our private RSS feed. No coding or complex configuration should be required.

If what you're looking for is something that finds news articles for you, then you'll need to also find a solution to that problem since that's not something we cover.