Kagi Alerts: notifications/RSS feeds for search results, similar to Google Alerts
Vlad yes please include RSS feed for standing search results.
I'm a kagi convert, but I unfortunately keep having to use Google alerts. hopefully one day we'll get alerts!
I think a good first step could be to just add an RSS for any search. it does not require any secial management dashboard and can be consumed in variety of ways.
Few problems to solve:
- Authentication - how do we authenticate the user and prevent abuse
- Cost management - if results get generated on every pull of the feed it could be a lot every day (and this will all cost the same as regular searches)
- Interface - where do we put the rss feed icon in results?
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Something I still use with Google is keyword email alerts. I have several set up:
1) keywords for jobs e.g dog walking Oxford, technical product lead uk, or whatever.
2) subject or topic key words e.g arch Linux, personal blog etc
They’re basically the same thing; a keyword search
On a daily basis then I will get an email from Google, with recent search results for these keyword alerts. One email per keyword search result. Here’s an example of one that I have set up for Linux:
Here’s Google’s page, explaining what you need to do to set up an alert:
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/4815696?hl=en
I don’t have to be looking for a job, but it helps me to keep my finger on the pulse, as I work in a niche role.
The keywords could be anything, but I received one email for each set of keyword(s) that I set up. E.g.
1) keyword: linux - I get one email a day using this. I don’t get any say about what results go into that email.
2) arch Linux: would get one daily email, with anything arch Linux related. Again, I have no say really what goes into the emails from Google. I don’t even get a say in when I receive them.
Happy to answer any questions you might have!
+1 this suggestion
As some users said, I still use Google News to produce RSS feeds, that I input into Feedbro
Would be very useful to have this functionality with Kagi.
Also, it would be a supplementary incentive to go for the "unlimited search" plan
From email: How about GPT-powered "google news" style alerts where you can use prose to specify a criteria and get notified whenever a new website enters the corpus that matches the criteria?
Anyone has examples of a good use case for this?
Vlad if that allowed it to disambiguate polysemous terms, it would beat Google--my alerts this week for Kagi keep including Kagi Karialan. So the use case is just a better news alert, I guess.
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Personally I would just like the basic keyword functionality before we start thinking about GPT powered anything. I don't even care about "alerts" as such. If I could cut out the middle step and be able to create an RSS feed based on any search query (particularly on the news tab) that would be amazing.
In regards to your earlier questions.
Authentication - how do we authenticate the user and prevent abuse
Probably require the API key as a parameter or generate a unique UUID for the feed when it is initially copied by a user which achieves a similar thing.
Cost management - if results get generated on every pull of the feed it could be a lot every day (and this will all cost the same as regular searches)
Personally I'd be happy for the results to be cached on the kagi server with some kind of regeneration limit to avoid constant regeneration with overhappy RSS clients. Basically something like serve the cached version 1-30 mins after generation then regenerate on a request 31+ minutes after the last regeneration.
Interface - where do we put the rss feed icon in results?
I don't have much opinion on this one but probably the feed icon next to the search bar would be fine. Also advertising it in the standard paths so RSS aware browsers/extensions identify it automatically.
Vlad An LLM-powered alert sounds awesome, but is probably overkill for an initial release of what I’m looking for. I’d like something to run once a day (or week) and generate an alert that would show up in the upper-right “bell” menu or generate an email with new results since the last run. My current example is I’d like to be notified whenever the T Coronae Borealis nova is spotted.
This is similar to something I was looking for just this past week. My use-case is staying up to date on some fast moving, complex topics. I was considering implementing my own service using Kagi's APIs, so I'd love to see it native in Kagi.
- Create RSS feed from any given website
- Use Kagi Universal Summarizer on feed update
- Notify me of new post along with technical summary
I could see this working as a "static search" type of news lens.
Would be even cooler to then interact with the Assistant using this "lens" with the posts from the custom feed as the external source.
dps The idea is great but it is in somewhat different vein than Alerts which are typically across the entire web (although it could be for a single site or a lens as a subset). I think you idea is sifficiently different to warrant a new post. Would you mind doing it and throwing a bit more thoughts on hwo would you use it (a mockup of UI would be great too).
Vlad Posted here: https://kagifeedback.org/d/4400-rss-feed-lens-personalized-content-curation-and-analysis if I have time I will consider drafting up a UI mockup
Can we beta test the email?
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Google News has this feature where you can generate a feed with a search query or a news topic. For example, if I want to follow news for the "OnePlus" search query in my locale (Canada, English):
Atom: https://news.google.com/atom/search?q=OnePlus&hl=en-CA&gl=CA&ceid=CA%3Aen
RSS: https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=OnePlus&hl=en-CA&gl=CA&ceid=CA%3Aen
Is this also planned for Kagi News? This feature request seems mostly intended for a Google Alerts replacement, which isn't exactly the same. A feed for a given search query would return multiple times more results using Google Alerts in comparison to Google News, which isn't suitable for simply wanting to stay informed on a given topic.
This can also be used to track those websites which don't offer a RSS feed. Basically, set Kagi to "track" changes and alert the user. I am not sure if this would technically qualify as "web-scraping" but somewhat close. RSS feeds for specific searches (only for paid users) could well be implemented. I am glad someone found this idea interesting before me. So bumping up this thread.
