I wrote rss2html with my own xml parser and http protocol (0deps) so many years ago to read my feeds.
Actually, the only useful feature was the 'planet' option which sorts/merges all your feeds in a single timeline. The html output of my tool supports templates so i use it to create a planet.foo website to read news. I end up using twitter. RSS is so retro. Do your tool supports this? I also wanted to have a way to keep synced my already read links. But that was a boring task. http://hg.youterm.com/rss2html On Aug 5, 2012, at 15:18, Hiltjor Posthuma <hil...@codemadness.org> wrote: > Greetings fellow people of suckless, > > > I would like to announce a simple RSS and Atom parser and reader I've > been working on. > > Some of the current features are: > > - items are stored in a format to easily interact with, so I used a > TSV-like format. > - separate programs to display this data (sfeed_plain (plain-text), > sfeed_html (HTML)). > - relatively little dependencies (although I use libexpat to parse XML). > - simple to interact with and play nice with existing tools (works > great with dmenu, links and your trusty term). > - works on most platforms (works on Linux, OpenBSD, Cygwin etc). > - easy to sync your feeds TO THE CLOUD ;P > - parallel downloading of feeds (sfeed_update). > - time conversion to your timezone. > > > Programs included and purpose of each program > --------------------------------------------- > > Name Purpose > > sfeed - read XML RSS or Atom feed data from stdin. Write feed data > in tab-separated format to stdout. > sfeed_update - Shellscript; update feeds and merge with old feeds in the > file $HOME/.sfeed/feeds by default. > sfeed_plain - Format feeds file (TSV) from sfeed_update to plain text. > sfeed_html - Format feeds file (TSV) from sfeed_update to HTML. > sfeed_opml_import - Generate a sfeedrc config file based on an opml file. > sfeed_opml_export - Generate an opml file based on a sfeedrc config file. > > > Example output of format programs > --------------------------------- > > Example output of sfeed_plain: > http://www.codemadness.nl/downloads/projects/sfeed/EXAMPLE.txt > > Example output of sfeed_html: > http://www.codemadness.nl/downloads/projects/sfeed/EXAMPLE.html > > Screenshot of sfeed_plain with dmenu (see usage examples): > http://www.codemadness.nl/downloads/screenshots/sfeed-screenshot.png > > > TAB-SEPARATED format > -------------------- > > The items are saved in a TSV-like format except newlines, tabs and > backslash are escaped with \ (\n, \t and \\). Other whitespace except > spaces are removed. > > The timestamp field is converted to a unix timestamp. The timestamp is also > stored as formatted as a separate field. The other fields are left untouched > (including HTML). > > The order and format of the fields are: > > item unix timestamp - string unix timestamp (GMT+0) > item formatted timestamp - string timestamp (YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS tz[+-]HHMM) > item title - string > item link - string > item description - string > item contenttype - string ("html" or "plain") > item id - string > item author - string > feed type - string ("rss" or "atom") > feed name - string (extra field added by sfeed_update) > feed url - string (extra field added by sfeed_update) > item baseurl site - string (extra field added by sfeed_update) > > > Some usage examples > ------------------- > > Basic usage to get items from a single newsfeed which also explains > the design of sfeed (iconv is optional, it's only used if feeds are > non-UTF8 encoded): > > curl -s 'http://kernel.org/kdist/rss.xml' | iconv -cs -f "iso-8859-1" > -t "utf-8" | sfeed | sfeed_plain > > > Config file syntax (shell script) for sfeed_update: > > feeds() { > # feed <name> <feedurl> [basesiteurl] [encoding] > feed "codemadness" "http://www.codemadness.nl/blog/rss.xml"; & > feed "xkcd" "http://xkcd.com/atom.xml"; & > feed "linux kernel" "http://kernel.org/kdist/rss.xml"; > "http://kernel.org"; "iso-8859-1" & > } > > > update items and merge (default config location is $HOME/.sfeed/sfeedrc). > sfeed_update > > > format feeds to plain-text: > sfeed_plain < $HOME/.sfeed/feeds > $HOME/.sfeed/feeds.txt > > > format feeds to HTML: > sfeed_html < $HOME/.sfeed/feeds > $HOME/.sfeed/feeds.html > > > view feeds with dmenu, opens selected url in $BROWSER: > > url=$(sfeed_plain < "$HOME/.sfeed/feeds" | dmenu -l 35 -i | > sed 's@^.* \([a-zA-Z]*://\)\(.*\)$@\1\2@') > [ ! "$url" = "" ] && $BROWSER "$url" > > > Generate a sfeedrc config file from your exported list of feeds in opml > format (newsbeuter, google reader, snownews, thunderbird, etc): > > sfeed_opml_import < opmlfile.xml > $HOME/.sfeed/sfeedrc > > > Export an opml file of your feeds from a sfeedrc config file: > > sfeed_opml_export configfile > myfeeds.opml > > > This is the first version I publicly share with people so I'm sure > there are some bugs. Patches, bug reports and constructive criticism > are very welcome. > > > You can get the latest code with git at: > > git clone http://www.codemadness.nl/downloads/projects/sfeed/src/sfeed.git > > A direct link to the latest README with more information is available here: > > http://www.codemadness.nl/downloads/projects/sfeed/README > > Link to blog with some screenshot and example files: > > http://www.codemadness.nl/blog/2011/04/01/sfeed-simple-feed-parser/ > > > Credits > > Thanks to raph_ael on #suckless for the idea of an opml converter and > __20h__ for suggesting I should add a public code repo for easier > patch management. > > > Kind regards, > Hiltjo (Evil_Bob on #suckless) >
