One of the things I like about Google Alerts is that you can get an RSS feed on them - writing software that parses RSS is easy, writing software that parses HT

One of the things I like about Google Alerts is that you can get an RSS feed on them - writing software that parses RSS is easy, writing software that parses HTML emails not so much. As far as I can tell, this solution doesn't offer any kind of programatic access to the alerts, which is really a shame.