google-alerts

How to monitor Google Alert RSS feed produced "as-it-happens"?

I have a Google Alert, which I set to be delivered as an RSS feed as-it-happens But is polling that RSS feed the only way to get RSS feed or is there a way to get notified from Google alert as the feed is published from Google? (say through a webservice, etc) ...

Google Alerts web API for Python?

Google web APIs have a Python library. Google Alerts has an email and an RSS feed. Does anyone know of an automated way to add Google Alerts through a web API in Python? That is, without clicking. Note: the related question doesn't answer the web API question. ...