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title: "Cool: Google2Rss"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/2/10/cool-google2rss.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/2/10/cool-google2rss.html"
published: "2003-02-10T10:34:00"
updated: "2003-02-10T10:34:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Peter Drayton managed to post the following at 5:21 AM: Google2RSS is a command-line tool that runs a query using the Google Web API and spits out an RSS 0.91 feed containing the top 10 hits . [ Sam Gentile's Weblog ]…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Cool: Google2Rss

By Roy Osherove February 10, 2003

**Historical article** · Originally published February 10, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

[](http://radio.weblogs.com/0117167/2003/02/08.html#a107) 

> [Peter Drayton](http://www.razorsoft.net/weblog) managed to post the following at 5:21 AM: _[Google2RSS](http://www.razorsoft.net/weblog/stories/2002/04/13/google2rss.html)_ _is a command-line tool that runs a query using the_ [_Google Web API_](http://www.google.com/apis/) _and spits out an_ [_RSS 0.91_](http://backend.userland.com/stories/rss091) _feed containing the top 10 hits_.
>
>
> \[[Sam Gentile's Weblog](http://radio.weblogs.com/0105852/)\]

\[via [Jamie Cansdale's Radio Weblog](http://radio.weblogs.com/0110440/)\]

\[via [Early&Adopter](http://radio.weblogs.com/0117167/2003/02/08.html#a107)\]

A lot of possibilites in here methinks.


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