[found] Looking for a lightweight rss feed reader

Barghest · 2010-10-11 20:49:10

Hi,

I'm working as a support manager and the informations about new or changed tickets are recently provided by a rss feed.

Now, I'm looking for a lightweight rss feed reader that fits well in an awesome or openbox setup.

I already tried aware for awesome but in my opinion it's only usable for one (max. two) feeds and you can't go to the url/ticket directly.

An information/urgent hint/popup when there are changes would be nice so that I don't miss anything too easy.

So, what do you use and suggest?

Last edited by Barghest (2010-10-13 06:51:11)

CommodoreTex · 2010-10-11 20:57:14

Newsbeuter in [Community] works great - I use it in Awesome. It runs in a terminal, but you can open URLs from the interface. There aren't any popup messages or other notifications that you might want from a GUI client, so it might be too barebones for you.

NecroWxrst · 2010-10-11 21:19:15

Hey there!

If you want a lightweight gui-newsreader, take a look at naufrago: http://sourceforge.net/projects/naufrago/files/

Greetz
Chris

.:B:. · 2010-10-11 21:40:20

I like Canto myself .

Barghest · 2010-10-12 07:31:49

Thanks for your replies.

newsbeuter looks very complex (I'll test it when I've more time)

I then read some reviews about naufrago and decided not to try it (maybe later though)

Canto looks very promising - easy to use and does what I want. The daemon is running now

I guess I'll have to live with regularly looking at the feed to see what's going on.

Last edited by Barghest (2010-10-12 07:33:58)

jasonwryan · 2010-10-12 08:58:12

For notifications, at least with newsbeuter -presumably also with Canto- you could print the number of unread items to conky...

Barghest · 2010-10-12 09:12:49

Oh, yes. There are several ways to get an ouptut of the number of new feed via command line. To get this information to conky isn't a problem but I need more time/efforts to get this to my awesome wibox.

Nichollan · 2010-10-12 09:33:38

The description of Newsbeuter seemed intimidating to me at first, but the other RSS readers had the audacity to demand me to remove my fingers from the home row when using them (for no good reason!) – so I tried it, and found it straightforward.

Dieter@be · 2010-10-12 10:50:25

You can also try rss2email, sends you news feed items by mail.
I use the alternative version rss2email-xdg, see
http://dieter.plaetinck.be/an_rss2email … sucks_less

Barghest · 2010-10-13 06:49:52

anrxc was so kind to help me with the awesome wm part (I lacked the skill to find the correct informations in the lua docs ;b ):

local function canto(format, feed)
    local f = io.popen("canto -n " .. feed)
    local new = f:read("*l")
    f:close()
    return new
end

--  register one widget for each feed for that you want the numbers of new feeds
cantowidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
vicious.register(cantowidget, canto, "$1", 61, "Slashdot")

If you only want to have the number of all of your feeds you just need "canto -a" in your function and no additional argument.

Last edited by Barghest (2010-10-13 06:50:53)

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