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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Kagi Alerts: notifications/RSS feeds for search results, similar to Google Alerts
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Vlad This looks great, with two additions mentioned below. It would be nice if lenses could be applied as well, but this (like the next one) is just a bonus. Also if we could set which one-hour block the search is conducted in, that would be incredible (it would also potentially spread out the workload a bit on your side)!!! (for example, my Google Alerts always come in a little after 3am, I have no choice, but I would love it if I could set Kagi to pull them in sometime after 2am so I could get to bed a little earlier!
Someone recently shared a project they made on HN that's adjacent to this space: https://app.mentions.us/
It pulls from specific feeds and data sources, but does a much more comprehensive job than Google Alerts. Would be interesting to subsume this functionality in Kagi Alerts.
This is a great suggestion. This can be displayed on the kagi dashboard and if opted in be provided as a push notification.
I do propose this feature to expand upon alerts of the following:
- Events (Concerts, Festivals)
- Releases
- Merch
- News (Articles), a user might subscribe to their local area and specify which kind of news they want to be alerted of
- SEO Ranking
As a privacy and productivity search engine this helps reduce the time Kagi users spend using Social Media.
I do think the best implementation would be calling an API of a third party provider instead of only listening on new search results.
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