# Owlie

> Monitor feeds, videos and podcasts and get structured results

- Page: https://www.whatwemade.app/p/owlie
- What it is: Web app (also CLI and MCP server), for productivity, also engineering and data
- Made by: [mihai](https://www.whatwemade.app/u/mihaiiova)
- Run it yourself: get the code and run your own copy
- Live: https://owlie.io
- Code: https://github.com/mihaiiova/owlie (Apache-2.0, 2 stars)
- Wants contributors: feedback from usage
- Tags: rss, monitoring, youtube, podcasts, summaries
- Upvotes: 1, comments: 0

## About

Owlie monitors websites, RSS feeds, YouTube channels, podcasts and communities such as Reddit and Hacker News. It filters new items by keywords or AI criteria, turns them into text or JSON with fields you define, and sends the results to an Owlie Inbox, email, a webhook or MCP.

It is built on the Owlie CLI, a free, open-source extractor under the Apache 2.0 license that you can run on your own machine. Podcasts are transcribed locally, and you can bring your own DeepSeek or OpenAI key, which is stored locally and sent only to the provider you choose.

It suits people who want to follow AI and developer news, track mentions of a brand, keep up with research papers on arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv or PubMed, or get key points from every new podcast episode.

## How it was made

- Codex, 80% of the work: coding
- ChatGPT, 20% of the work: general discussions
- Claude, 20% of the work: mainly UI
- Stack: Neon, Railway, React, TypeScript, shadcn/ui, Hono, MCP SDK, Stripe
- MCP servers: GitHub, Stripe, Filesystem, Postgres

Shared on WhatWeMade: https://www.whatwemade.app/p/owlie