Freely send newsletters 100x cheaper via Amazon SES

rss2newsletter turns any RSS/Atom feed into a fully automated email newsletter with minimal setup. The project aims to be a minimalist's 100% free and open source alternative to Mailchimp's RSS-to-Email. Switching from Mailchimp could easily save you tens to hundreds or even thousands of dollars per month depending on your send volume. rss2newsletter intergrates with listmonk to send emails (which works with Amazon SES).

rss2newsletter supports all the features you need to create appealing email newsletters including automated grabbing of a content image using your website's OpenGraph metadata. rss2newsletter + listmonk are also incredibly portable & lightweight, so there are no minimum system requirements for having them operate at full capacity 24/7 on any computer (unlike heavyweight proprietary solutions).

Common RSS feed sources you can turn into an email newsletter includes... your personal/team blog (virtually all blogging platforms produce RSS feeds by default), social media accounts/topics, news websites, and much more! Please only use rss2newsletter to deliver email that you would want in your inbox (e.g. notifying subscribers of new high effort content; no spam).

1. Download listmonk
   • The listmonk server comes as a single binary that you can start in one command (set up with a provider like Amazon SES later)
2. Get rss2newsletter: pip3 install rss2newsletter
   • Ensure you already have Python installed
   • If you prefer to use your system package manager then Git clone this repo and run the install.sh script
3. Create rss2newsletter's configuration file and design your email with the newsletter template file
4. Run rss2newsletter to start creating campaigns and sending out emails!

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usage: rss2newsletter.py [-h] [-c CONFIG]

Convert an RSS feed to email newsletters

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
                        Program configuration file
                        (default: rss2newsletter.conf)

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AGPL License - Copyright (C) 2024 Elliot Killick contact@elliotkillick.com

Why copyleft? I usually publish under a permissive open source license but there are too many proprietary email marketing solutions. Contact me if your company requires an alternative license.