# fossasia/searss

Search to RSS tool

Repository: https://github.com/fossasia/searss
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/searss
Language: Python
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2019-04-24T04:10:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3574, "days_push": 2688, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1534, forks 42 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:59.732845+00:00)

## What it is
A small Python CLI tool that scrapes search results from engines like Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Ask.com and converts them into RSS feeds. It can be run interactively or scripted by piping output to files.

## Use cases
- convert search engine results to rss feeds
- generate rss feed from a google search query
- scrape bing or duckduckgo results into xml
- monitor search results via rss readers
- script search result collection on a server

## When to choose
- you need search results as RSS feeds and can work with legacy Python 2 code
- you want a simple scriptable CLI to pipe search results into files

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained tool or Python 3 support
- you need an API-compliant scraping solution rather than HTML scraping
- the search engines' current markup may break the scraper

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-scraping, search-engine, cli
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: rss, rss-generator, scraping, search-results, python2, fossasia, search, command-line

## Member repositories
- fossasia/searss (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.732845+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:11.979606+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fossasia/searss (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.732845+00:00, sha 1b910eb8fdb0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.