Comments on: Desperately seeking a (console) feed reader

By: Looking for a Bash / Perl script to read the New RSS feeds (XML url)

Looking for a Bash / Perl script to read the New RSS feeds (XML url) — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:58:18 +0000

[...] new through the console ? Thanks in advance if someone has coded this already. — References: blog.gurski.org/index.php/200…e-feed-reader/ $ apt-cache search rss console canto – flexible ncurses Atom/RSS newsreader for the console ekg – [...] View all comments by Looking for a Bash / Perl script to read the New RSS feeds (XML url)

By: Mico Filós

Mico Filós — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:37:09 +0000

Canto looks promising: codezen.org/canto/ View all comments by Mico Filós

By: Adam Bogacki

Adam Bogacki — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:14:30 +0000

Heh .. I was a happy newsbeuter denizen until one day it just stopped working. Upon checking, cache.db had over
1Gb in it so I deleted it and have not been able to restart. apt-get removing and re-installing newsbeuter does not help. Any constructive ideas would be appreciated.

Adam.
afb@paradise.net.nz View all comments by Adam Bogacki

By: foo

foo — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:42:13 +0000

Then file a bug against libmrss, upon which newsbeuter builds. I use newsbeuter by myself, and read about 20 Atom feeds with it without any problems. So probably filing a bug would end your search more quickly than keeping on searching. View all comments by foo

By: Phil McClure

Phil McClure — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:36:04 +0000

@ak:
Yeah, I just went and downloaded newsbeuter and also downloaded and compiled all of the dependancies and I can assure you that it *doesn’t* handle atom feeds.

For instance, the main reason newsbeuter was a draw for me was Mark Pilgrim’s blog (champion of the well-formed) and newsbeuter chokes on his atom feed.

So, no, newsbeuter *does not* handle atom feeds.

And the search continues… View all comments by Phil McClure

By: ak

ak — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:18:29 +0000

Have you considered trying out newsbeuter? It supports basically all you need:
- supports RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom 0.3 and 1.0
- can regularly update all feeds on its own in the background
- can keep unread articles forever
- supports a flexible categorization system based on tags (every RSS feed can have 0 or more tags, and you can filter RSS feeds by tag)
- stores all the downloaded feeds in a local SQLite database that can e.g. be used for custom SQL queries.
I hope I aroused your interest in this program. View all comments by ak

By: emag

emag — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:25:14 +0000

In a manner of speaking, yes. I ended up starting work on my own feed reader. I’ve written a bit about it at:

blog.gurski.org/index.php/2007/02/14/putting-my-money-where-my-mouth-is/
blog.gurski.org/index.php/2007/02/22/this-is-supposed-to-be-simple-right/
blog.gurski.org/index.php/2007/03/09/making-some-progress/ View all comments by emag

By: Keot

Keot — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:02:35 +0000

Have you found anything better since? View all comments by Keot