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* Newsbeuter is a console-based rss *
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Well, it's a lovely Saturday morning
and it seems like a great time to
abandoned but still works well.
Newsboat[2] is a more up to date fork,
but I haven't used it yet. It appears
from the documentation that little has
changed from the end-user perspective
and I suspect (but don't know for
newsboat as well.
Watch this space for an update when I
ultimately do install newsboat.
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Newsbeuter is in Debian's
nstall newsbeuter" will do the trick
f you use Debian.
After installation, you should find a
.newsbeuter directory inside your home
"urls" file. "urls" is your list of
feeds on a new line. If you prefer,
you can edit the urls file from within
the newsbeuter program by pressing the
capital "E" key.
You can also create a file called
"config" inside the .newsbeuter
configuration preferences.
Mine looks like this:
browser lynx
More on those options in a moment.
Operation
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Starting newsbeuter is as easy as
typing "newsbeuter." That's not a lot
of fun though, so I've aliased it as
"rss" in my .bashrc file.
Navigation:
Up and down arrows -- move up and down
your list of feeds or list of
tems/articles.
Enter -- open a feed or item/article.
q -- go back. Basically, you quit your
o -- open an article in a browser. If
you don't create the config
file and specify the browser,
newsbeuter will use your system
"q" will close the browser and return
you to newsbeuter, which makes
navigation kind of seamless. q-q-q
back to where you want to be.
At any time, you can press the "?" key
to open the help screen, which
commands.
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Newsbeuter also handles podcasts!
Add the podcasts to your urls list.
Navigate through them as usual. If you
"e" to enqueue the episode for
You don't actually listen to the
Exit newsbeuter -- or just open
another terminal if you want to read
feeds and listen to podcasts at the
the list of episodes that you've
enqueued for download in newsbeuter.
Navigate to an episode with the arrow
keys.
episode.
episode.
Note that podbeuter will only play the
episode if you have defined a player
n your config file.
machine to minimize keystrokes.
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[1] The newsbeuter website is at
[2] Newsboat can be found at
[3] Obligatory k.mandla link:
