drop-rss

Hacked-together RSS server for Drop.com products

Results in the excellent NetNewsWire app.

Motivation

It's very clear that people want RSS for Drop: Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C

So it's 4:30 AM and I've kind of reverse engineered the API of Drop.com to export it to RSS

Quick Start

1. Install the required Python packages (beautifulsoup4, requests, feedgen)
2. Run the server with python3 main.py
3. Point your reader to http://localhost:8080
4. Never miss a good deal again.

Function

Polls drop.com every 10 minutes for products. Caches the XML and serves it over HTTP.

Warnings and To-Dos

Don't run the server in a production environment unless you live for the risks.

PRs are open (This would be nice in a docker container)

Legal

Not sure if this violates any Terms of Service. If anything, it's doing Drop a favor by reducing bandwidth.