Get a daily email digest of an RSS feed

Instead of signing up for a feed-reader-to-email service, you can run the whole thing as one cron-triggered val: fetch the feed daily, diff against the last-run timestamp stored in blob storage, and email yourself the new items with std/email. If nothing new was published, no email is sent.

The digest cron#

The template splits the rest of the work into small files: rss.ts fetches and parses the feed (any RSS or Atom feed works), digest.tsx renders the email HTML, and email.ts wraps std/email with a small retry since sends can fail transiently.

Set it up#

1. Remix this template — click the Remix button in the top right corner.
2. In main.tsx, set FEED_URL to the feed you want.
3. Optional: click Run on main.tsx to test it immediately. On the first run it looks back 24 hours.

No API keys or environment variables are needed.

Notes#

• The digest goes to your Val Town account email — that's where std/email delivers by default.
• The schedule is 0 13 * * * — daily at 13:00 UTC (9am Eastern). Cron expressions always run in UTC, so adjust the schedule on main.tsx for your timezone.
• The last-run timestamp in blob storage is what guarantees you never get the same item twice, even if you change the schedule.

Next steps#

• Cron reference — schedule types and the Interval handler
• RSS guide — parsing and generating feeds on Val Town
• Scrape a website daily and email yourself the results — the same cron-plus-email recipe for pages without a feed