Newsraft is a small text based program for reading syndication feeds. It’s greatly inspired by Newsboat and tries to be its lightweight counterpart. It obtains content from a given set of sources and lets you browse it all via one streamlined user interface.
There are only 4 menus you will have to deal with: sections, feeds, items and pager. Default binds are listed in ACTIONS section.
Sections menu consists of section entries which are needed to organize feeds in groups to be able to process them in bulk. They are kind of directories for feeds. If you didn’t specify any section declarations in your feeds file then you will get to the feeds menu straight away.
Feeds menu consists of feed entries. Every feed entry contains news downloaded from one specific source which you have set in feeds file. To update a single feed you have to select it and press r or R if you want to update all feeds. From feeds menu you can get to the items menu by entering some feed.
Items menu consists of feed item entries (i. e. single pieces of news) which you get when you update feeds in the previous menu. Every feed item entry has two switchable properties – read state and importance state. Keys to change read state: d to mark read, D to mark unread, ^D to mark everything read. Keys to change importance state: f to flag important, F to flag unimportant. To view item’s content you have to go to pager menu by entering selected item.
Pager menu will display some details about selected item and render its content if it was provided by feed. Usually feed item entries have a links section with one link pointing to a related web page and several links that were mentioned in the item’s content. You can copy these links into your clipboard with y key and open them in your web browser with o key. To target a key action to link with a specific index you have to prefix your key with this index. For example, 5y will copy fifth link and 17o will open seventeenth link in the web browser. You can also setup custom command bindings to execute any commands with these links.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Parallel downloads.
- Section-based feeds grouping.
- Opening links in any program.
- News filtering using SQL conditions.
- Viewing news from all feeds with explore mode.
- Automatic updates for feeds and sections.
- Per-feed settings and key bindings.
- Assigning multiple actions to key bindings.
- Processing feeds from command output.
- Text searching by news titles and content.
- Interactive news content viewing.
- Support for practically all feed formats.
Website: codeberg.org/newsraft/newsraft
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Developer: Grigory Kirillov
License: ISC License
newsraft is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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