What does HackerNews think of newsboat?

An RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals

Language: C++

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It's time for an RSS revival (2018) | Dec 2022
Newsboat is an excellent command line feed reader for Linux:

https://newsboat.org/ https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat

Ask HN: Efficient and Effective Information Retrieval from Hacker News | Jul 2022
i use newsboat(https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat), after launching, just press R, it fetches the new content, since i last read all stuff. Then open all the links for stuff i find interesting in the browser and read them.
RSS Feeds about what the Government is doing | Jan 2022
I have a large collection of RSS feeds that I assembled by visiting various government websites. I wish I had found this site sooner, but they are missing a lot of other government feeds. I would also suggest using Newsboat when reading all the news. https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat
Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters? | Jul 2021
I've found that most places offer the same content in an RSS feed as their newsletter. I prefer the terminal newsboat RSS reader running in Docker. : https://newsboat.org/ https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat ...and lynx is also in the container for browsing.
I Still Use RSS | Feb 2021
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>As a system administrator, I can use RSS to keep up to date

Along the same sentiment, I've taken things further and update my RSS feeds on demand. I use a suite of tools that pull entries[1] using Newsboat[2] and send them over SMTP (with a `sendmail` tool), optionally saving the emails[3] that couldn't be sent to disk.

Combined with a local server[4] relying on NewsAPI[5] that can pull news from sites that don't provide with an RSS feed (AP, RT…), it's a great decentralised and modular setup!

[1] https://github.com/lenormf/newsboat-sendmail [2] https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat [3] https://github.com/lenormf/sendmail-tryqueue [4] https://github.com/lenormf/news2rss [5] https://newsapi.org/
Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use? | Oct 2020
newsboat[1][2]

It's an active fork of the venerable terminal RSS reader, newbeuter.

I like it because it works in the terminal, is feature rich, and it's standalone.

[1] - https://newsboat.org/

[2] - https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat

Ask HN: Favourite blogs? | Sep 2020
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I am using newsboat:https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat
RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS | Jun 2020
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For many years I've used and continue to use an RSS reader named newsboat[1][2] (which is an actively developed fork of the venerable newsbeuter, which I used for years before that).

It's a feature-rich RSS reader that runs completely in the terminal, presenting text-only views of each RSS feed.

The links open in the browser of your choice (which for me is a text-only version of emacs-w3m, which I also run exclusively in the terminal).

However, some RSS items can be read in their entirety within the RSS reader[3], and does not require the opening of any links. This is my preferred method of consuming RSS.

[1] - https://newsboat.org/

[2] - https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat

[3] - ie. those RSS items for which the author has chosen to make their entire article/post available over RSS instead of merely posting a teaser and requiring browsing to their website to read the rest
Apple News No Longer Supports RSS | Dec 2019
I use a terminal RSS reader called newsboat[1][2], which is an actively developed fork of newsbeuter.

It's pretty feature rich, fast, keyboard-oriented (supporting vi movement keys), and works great in the terminal.

Another great thing about it is that it runs completely on my own machine, so I don't have to give away information about my reading preferences to any third party, as would be the case for any hosted RSS service.

I love RSS because it gives me lean, fast, ad-free, bloat-free information. I hope it never dies.

[1] - https://newsboat.org/

[2] - https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat

New ‘past’ link on HN front page | Feb 2019
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I use Newsboat[1][2], a standalone RSS reader that I use in the terminal. It's an actively developed fork of Newbeuter.

[1] - https://newsboat.org/

[2] - https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat