Read your RSS Feeds in the Command line with SnowNews
SnowNews is a feedreader for your unix/linux command line. It doesn’t have some necessary features some would like, such as full html rendering, https access, etc.. But for the most part SnowNews does what it is intended to do and does it well. You can build it from source or you can simply run the binary by downloading this tarball, extracting it and running “./snownews”. I suggest building it from source if it is not in your repositories.
See the homepage here: http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/
Once you’ve installed and run SnowNews you’ll notice a white bar at the bottom stating Press ‘h’ for the help screen. Lets go ahead and press that. We get the following:
a: Add RSS feed…
D: Delete highlighted RSS feed…
c: Rename feed…
R: Reload all feeds
r: Reload this feed
m: Mark all read
B: Change default browser…
P, N: Move item up, down
s: Sort feed list alphabetically
C: Categorize feed…
f: Apply filter…
g: Only current category
F: Remove filter
H: Show new headlines
e: Add conversion filter…
tab: Type Ahead Find
A: About
E: Show error log…
q: Quit program
Pretty self explanatory, no? Just for testing purposes go ahead and hit ‘a’ and lets type in TuxTraining’s main feed for this test run:
Press the ‘a’ key to add a feed and past http://tuxtraining.com/feed/ into the white bar and press Enter, the feed should add successfully. Hit Enter again to select the feed and you’ll see the rss entries for TuxTraining.
You can escape whatever menu you’re in using the ‘q’ key. As the menu and the tips are pretty self explanitory I’ll leave you here to browse through the rest of the options. :-)
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