The Newsbeuter RSS Feedreader

Newsbeuter is an RSS feedreader. RSS is a number of widely-used XML formats to transmit, publish and syndicate articles, for example news or blog articles. Newsbeuter is designed to be used on text terminals on Unix or Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD or Mac OS X.

Why "Newsbeuter"?

"Newsbeuter" is a pun on the German word "Wildbeuter", which means @@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ lists these dependencies. Please be aware that the list libraries may themselves depend on other libraries. These dependencies are not listed here. Please also be aware that you need a recent C++ compiler. Currently, newsbeuter has only been tested with GCC.

-Libidn: http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/ -
STFL: http://www.clifford.at/stfl/
SQLite 3: http://www.sqlite.org/
+libcurl: http://curl.haxx.se/ +
libmRss: http://www2.autistici.org/bakunin/libmrss/

libnXml: http://www2.autistici.org/bakunin/libnxml/ @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ file, by default $HOME/.newsbeuter/config. This configuration files contains lines in the form "<config-command> <arg1> …". The configuration file can also contain comments, which start with the # character and go as far as the end of line. If you need to enter a configuration argument that contains -spaces, use quotes (") around the whole argument.

Table 1. Configuration Commands

+spaces, use quotes (") around the whole argument.

Table 1. Configuration Commands

Configuration Command	Argument(s) @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ spaces, use quotes (") around the whole argument. podcast-auto-enqueue yes -

Table 2. Available Operations

+

Table 2. Available Operations

Operation

Default key @@ -326,11 +326,11 @@ The Enter key is written as "enter", while the ESC key is written as "esc". The function keys F1 to F12 are written as "F1" to "F12". The Space key is written as "space". Key combinations with the Ctrl key, such as Ctrl-R, are written as ^r. Please be aware that all Ctrl-related key combinations need to be written -in lowercase ^R for Ctrl-Shift-R does not work.

Example Configuration

# a comment +in lowercase ^R for Ctrl-Shift-R does not work.

Example Configuration

# a comment
 max-items        100 # such comments are possible, too
 browser          links
 show-read-feeds  no

unbind-key       R
-bind-key         ^r    reload-all

Configuring Colors

It is possible to configure custom color settings in newsbeuter. The basic configuration +bind-key ^r reload-all

Configuring Colors

It is possible to configure custom color settings in newsbeuter. The basic configuration syntax is:

color <element> <foreground color> <background color> [<attribute> ...]

This means that if you configure colors for a certain element, you need to provide a foreground color and a background color as a minimum. The following colors are supported:

@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ invis listnormal white black listfocus yellow blue bold info yellow blue bold -article white black

Advanced Features

Tagging

Newsbeuter comes with the possibility to categorize or "tag", as well call it, +article white black

Advanced Features

Tagging

Newsbeuter comes with the possibility to categorize or "tag", as well call it, RSS feeds. Every RSS feed can be assigned 0 or more tags. Within newsbeuter, you can then select to only show RSS feeds that match a certain tag. That makes it easy to categorize your feeds in a flexible and powerful way.

Usually, the ~/.newsbeuter/urls file contains one RSS feed URL per line. To @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf news interesting

When you now s a tag. When you select the tag "news", you will see all three RSS feeds. Pressing "t" again and e.g. selecting the "conspiracy" tag, you will only see the http://blog.fefe.de/rss.xml?html RSS feed. Pressing "^t" clears the current tag, -and again shows all RSS feeds, regardless of their assigned tags.

Podcast Support

A podcast is a media file distributed over the internet using syndication feeds +and again shows all RSS feeds, regardless of their assigned tags.

Podcast Support

A podcast is a media file distributed over the internet using syndication feeds such as RSS, for later playback on portable players or computers. Newsbeuter contains support for downloading and saving podcasts. This support differs a bit from other podcast aggregators or "podcatchers" in how it is done.

Podcast content is transported in RSS feeds via special tags called @@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ newsbeuter can be configured to automatically do that. This queue is stored in the file $HOME/.newsbeuter/queue.

The user can then use the download manager "podbeuter" to download these files to a directory on the local filesystem. Podbeuter comes with the newsbeuter package, and features a look and feel very close to the one of newsbeuter. It -also shares the same configuration file.

Table 3. Podbeuter Configuration Commands

+also shares the same configuration file.

Table 3. Podbeuter Configuration Commands

Configuration Command	Argument(s) @@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ also shares the same configuration file.	max-downloads 3 -

Table 4. Available Operations in Podbeuter

+

Table 4. Available Operations in Podbeuter

Operation

Default key @@ -494,10 +494,10 @@ also shares the same configuration file.

Feedback

If you want to tell us something related to newsbeuter, don't hesitate to send +together by pressing "a" within podbeuter.

Feedback

If you want to tell us something related to newsbeuter, don't hesitate to send an email: ak-newsbeuter@synflood.at

Alternatively, you can reach the newsbeuter developers on IRC: channel #newsbeuter on irc.freenode.net.

If you want to report newsbeuter bugs, please use this issue tracker: -http://code.google.com/p/newsbeuter/issues/list

License

MIT/X Consortium License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of +http://code.google.com/p/newsbeuter/issues/list

License

MIT/X Consortium License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies -- cgit v1.2.3 -- cgit v1.2.3