Giving another round of attention to a CLI tool for handling RSS feeds. Over the years I've evolved several automated ingest flows, most of which are fed via RS

Giving another round of attention to a CLI tool for handling RSS feeds. Over the years I've evolved several automated ingest flows, most of which are fed via RSS. For a long time, I used a setup based on rss2email, but it was baroque. Meanwhile, tools of a more standard design, like elfeed and newsboat, do not cater to my use cases. So, I wrote something that handles only feed management, fetching new items (i.e., <item> or <entry> elements), tagging, and searching the database. Other issues, such as download and storage of content, tagging policy, storage, and indexing are left entirely up to the scripts for which this is a building block.