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Liferea

Liferea

Linux Feed Reader (commonly known as Liferea) is a news aggregator for online news feeds. It supports the major feed formats including RSS/RDF and Atom and can import and export subscription lists in OPML format. 

Liferea is intended to be a fast, easy to use, and easy to install news aggregator for GTK+ that can be used with the GNOME desktop.

The Liferea package includes the XSPF Web Music Player.


 Liferea 1.4.15

Price
Free to download

Size
1.5MB

License
GNU Public License v2

Developer
Lars Lindner, Nathan J. Conrad , and numerous code contributors

Website
liferea.sourceforge.net

System Requirements
gtk2, gconf2, libxml2,
libxslt, sqlite3 and either libgtkembedmoz, libxul or gtkhtml2

Mozilla, Firefox or XulRunner installation containing libgtkembedmoz.so - to use the Mozilla browser module

Support Sites:
Liferea BlogLiferea Mailing List

Selected Reviews:
OpenSUSE Linux Rants, Softpedia, Linux.com RedHat Magazine

Features include:

  • Full Support for RSS & RFD, CDF, Atom/Echo/PIE 0.2
  • OPML and OCS support 
  • Traditional three-pane interface
  • Collapsible groups for feeds
  • Filters to scrape websites or postprocess feeds
  • Enclosures (Podcasting)
  • Bandwidth saving by supporting feed specified update intervals, HTTP compression and etags
  • Allows direct subscriptions from Firefox 1.5+ and Epiphany. Epiphany provides a standard plugin that
    allows adding a subscription directly to Liferea.
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