Akregator is a news feed reader for KDE. It enables you to follow news sites, blogs and other RSS/Atom-enabled websites without the need to manually check for updates using a web browser.
It allows you to quickly browse through hundreds of thousands of internet feeds in a quick, efficient, and familiar way.
Akregator is part of the Kontact suite.
Features include:
- Simple and intuitive.
- Support for RSS and Atom feeds.
- Aggregates feeds in a particular category into a single list.
- Automatic or manual request of feeds.
- Uses tabs to give access to internal reading of full stories
- Archives feeds. For example, you can keep all article, limit archive to a defined number of articles, delete articles older than a specified number of days, or even disable archiving.
- Customize individual feeds.
- Incremental search feature.
- Feed icons.
- Embeds KHTML as an internal, tabbed web browser.
- Three-paned view: List of feeds on the left, list of posts in the top right pane, and the post content in the bottom-right pane.
- Feeds archive.
- Custom update interval.
- Option to load the full website when reading articles, and mark articles as read when they arrive.
- Good integration with Konqueror, a free and open-source web browser and file manager, provides web access and file-viewer functionality for file systems.
Website: userbase.kde.org/Akregator
Support:
Developer: Stanislav Karchebny
License: GNU GPL v2
Akregator is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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