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#!/usr/bin/env python3
import re
from datetime import datetime
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
from email.utils import format_datetime
from hashlib import md5

BASE_FILE = "/var/www/index.html"
BASE_URL = "https://yourwebsite.com"
OUTPUT_FILE = "/var/www/rss.xml"

with open(BASE_FILE, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    html = f.read()

# Match dividers OR <p> tags (optionally with data-date)
pattern = r'(<div class="divider"></div>)|<p(?:\s+data-date="(.*?)")?>(.*?)</p>'
matches = re.findall(pattern, html, re.DOTALL)

posts = []
current_post = None
collecting = False  # Only collect after a <p data-date> starts a post

for divider, date_str, content in matches:
    content = content.strip()

    if divider:
        # Divider ends the current post
        collecting = False
        continue

    if date_str:
        # New post starts
        collecting = True
        if current_post:
            posts.append(current_post)

        current_post = {
            "date": date_str.strip(),
            "content": content
        }

    elif collecting and current_post:
        # Continuation paragraph for current post
        current_post["content"] += "\n\n" + content

# Append the last post
if current_post:
    posts.append(current_post)

items = []

for post in reversed(posts):
    # EST timezone + noon to avoid previous-day shift
    date_obj = datetime.strptime(post["date"], "%Y-%m-%d").replace(
        hour=12,
        tzinfo=ZoneInfo("America/New_York")
    )

    full_content = post["content"]
    # Title: first sentence or first 60 chars
    title = full_content.split(".")[0][:60] or post["date"]
    # Unique GUID per post
    guid_hash = md5(full_content.encode()).hexdigest()

    items.append(f"""
    <item>
        <title>{title}</title>
        <link>{BASE_URL}/</link>
        <guid>{BASE_URL}/#{guid_hash}</guid>
        <pubDate>{format_datetime(date_obj)}</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[{full_content}]]></description>
    </item>
    """)

rss = f"""<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Example</title>
<link>{BASE_URL}</link>
<description>Daily posts</description>
<lastBuildDate>{format_datetime(datetime.now(ZoneInfo("America/New_York")))}</lastBuildDate>
{''.join(items)}
</channel>
</rss>
"""

with open(OUTPUT_FILE, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    f.write(rss)

print(f"RSS feed generated with {len(items)} items.")




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For each post your going to have to use the data-date format on each post like so  >>>>    <p data-date="2026-03-02"> my new post.  </p>  also add a extra <p> element if you want to add more text into your post . Basically the first p acts as a title of your post. 
Now for the cron job run crontab -e and insert this 0 * * * * /usr/bin/python3 /var/www/rss.py >> /var/www/rss.log 2>&1
which will run the script every hour to fetch for new posts make sure you copy the script above and paste it where your index.html resides. 


AND THERE YOU HAVE IT YOUR OWN RSS FEED.