In this two-part article, Ray Camden takes us through the creation of an application that monitors any RSS feed and returns matches when it finds a keyword. The main functionality is in a ColdFusion component (CFC). The application also uses XML, the CFHTTP tag, and the CFSCHEDULE tag, which runs the utility hourly and sends e-mail when it finds results.
The RSS Watch Sample App: Monitoring RSS Feeds Automatically (Part I) The RSS Watch Sample App (Part 2): Improving and Enhancing