Wow, classic DT -- highly useful and educational of RSS readers. I had zero idea of how useful these readers can be. I am now schooled. Thanks for the damn useful content DT.
Instead of the comment lines that split your feeds newsboat allows you to color keywords on the feed list specifically thus giving a red color to your RUclips keyword and make those feeds stand out.
I load a few RSS feeds into xscreensaver and throw them up as my stock screensaver. People seem to like either the Star Wars screensaver (simulates the 'Story so far' intro from the movies) or the Apple II screensaver (simulates an old Apple II monitor complete with CRT bending at the top and bottom).
Hello Derek, The line for GitHub with LukeSmithxyz has a missing double quote at the end. You can see it at 9:33 for instance. What is strange is that this syntax error had apparently no impact on the output! Cheers
Nice video! Just a little info: the config files can be place in ~/.config/newsboat. This way you're following the xdg specs and you get rid of one dot file in your home, isn't it cool! Well it's just one in a ocean though...
you can also add your "own feed" from github. fi. if you follow someone with the github follow function, "your feed" will get updated when people you follow star something or create new repos. You can also finetune github rss and only subscribe to fi issues, commits to master, or releases of a project. i use this all the time. I like the "fake banners" you created in the feedlist, not enough budlabs though ;)
I used Canto when I first started in Linux a long time ago and stuck with it forever but Canto doesn't seem to be under development anymore. It hasn't seen a release in awhile and hasn't had a commit in almost 2 years.
Hey Derek! Can you make some "ricing" videos of some more "noob" friendly DEs? Something like Gnome, Xfce, Cinnamon, etc... WMs look cool and all, but not nearly as user friendly as a DE and I would love to see ways of customizing them.
terminals and text files are easier then poorly designed and limited gui setting widget. And in my experience documentation is always much better on "stand-alone-programs" then DE's, especially for configuration, so it is more "user friendly". you got it wrong.
@@dubbeltumme While I also prefer TUIs myself, they're usually not very discoverable. Not everyone wants to learn hotkeys or trudge through manpages upon pages of mostly useless options whenever they try out an app. Docs are often bad, and unlike with shiny GUIs & DEs, you're actually utterly screwed w/o them. (Also, consider at least dialing down your smugness level when you need to Interject™ noobs with off-topic opinions at all; it's not nice & also makes you look like a poser.)
@@nibblrrr7124 >tells me to "dial down" smugness, when interjecting, while interjecting... interjectception. reading "man" is important, getting new *nix users to understand that is only helpful.
I'd also like to see something on that, esp. what is feasible. Also, if I want to automate it, hunting down the GTK config file or xfconf keyword that corresponds to some checkbox in a settings menu myself is pretty tedious, so if someone would do that for me for the most important ones... ^^
@@dubbeltumme No, that's not what "interjecting" means. You brought up the topic of whether certain UIs have merit at all, and thus whether OP should be even asking his question, which is utterly unhelpful. I pointed out other perspectives on your one-sided argument, and that you come across as kind of a dick. Anyway, enlightening people with The Unix Way is much lower on my priority list than enabling ~normies to ditch proprietary OSes for good. I don't feel like cluttering this thread w/ more on this; feel free to have the last word.
Append &_rss=1 to ebay searches sorted by date. Make your own feeds for sites that don't have them with feed43.com. Can anyone suggest a self-hosted news reader with web interface that lets me j/k through full articles? I've tried Miniflux and it's okay but I'd need to theme it and fix the key bindings then figure out how to import my RUclips API video keyword searches that Feedly currently handles for me.
Make sure you've done this, at 2:08, that where you edit your urls file to write in the RSS url's. For example: rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss You'd type that into your urls text editor, and save it. Start up newsboat and it should show the link.
@@AlucardNoir Right. Because it didnt grow exponentially like your typical fad it requires life support, sure. Doesnt mean theres less people actually using it.
@@90hijacked RSS was released in 1999, 20 years ago. The protocol hasn't received an update in 11 or 12 years and RSS feed readers have been slowly dying left and right. Most notably the Google Reader which was abandoned because of the low number of people using it, and that was in 2013, 6 years ago. The number of sites that even offer an RSS feed has also been going down - mostly a smart business decision caused by sites trying to keep their readers in their own little walled garden, watching their adverts and paying their subscriptions. Sure, RSS isn't dead, the same way IRC isn't dead. Thy're both just niche products that new users almost never get into and which are slowly being abandoned by older users. I mean, take IRC for instance, unless you're in the pirate scene, the cracking scene, the hacking scene or are a Linux pseudo poweruser you're unlikely to EVER use it. RSS is like phone landlines, unless you're a business (or in the case or RSS a new media guy that want to see what other news sites that still use the protocol say) or very old, or Bryan Lunduke you're **probably** not using it.
Atom was updated in 2007 (people mean "web feeds" when they say "RSS"; cf TLS vs SSL). More to the point: *Why would a protocol for such a simple & inexpensive task need to be changed?* * And while I doubt they're popular, I hope that sites realize that also offering feeds costs nothing compared to the amount of work you need to reliably (!) show up in someone's Facebook feed. Unless you can rely on your readers being dedicated enough to manually check your page or download your stupid app, offering a feed still seems like a no-brainer? * afaict, HTTP specs had not changed for 15 years until 2014? oO Also, sure, I'd love to see e.g. push notifications, but does e.g. the New York Times app do that?
Very useful. It's been on my to-do list since Luke Smith's video on the subject.
Still
Your YT channel has been on my RSS reader for a long time :-)
Thanks! :D
Wow, classic DT -- highly useful and educational of RSS readers. I had zero idea of how useful these readers can be. I am now schooled. Thanks for the damn useful content DT.
Very nice and instructive stuff again, DT. Always on point without unnecessary chatter, i like it.
Thanks, Esa!
Instead of the comment lines that split your feeds newsboat allows you to color keywords on the feed list specifically thus giving a red color to your RUclips keyword and make those feeds stand out.
Nice!
@@DistroTube a5is6665+
I load a few RSS feeds into xscreensaver and throw them up as my stock screensaver. People seem to like either the Star Wars screensaver (simulates the 'Story so far' intro from the movies) or the Apple II screensaver (simulates an old Apple II monitor complete with CRT bending at the top and bottom).
Hello Derek,
The line for GitHub with LukeSmithxyz has a missing double quote at the end. You can see it at 9:33 for instance.
What is strange is that this syntax error had apparently no impact on the output!
Cheers
good observation, you're correct. moreover it is safe to discard quotes entirely unless you use tags with spaces in them.
Thnaks for bringing this up. Watched this and Luke Smith's video about the subject. I like it.
thanks DT : ) i actually find this very useful
Nice video! Just a little info: the config files can be place in ~/.config/newsboat. This way you're following the xdg specs and you get rid of one dot file in your home, isn't it cool! Well it's just one in a ocean though...
Yep, I need to move this to support the XDG directory standards.
I don't have .config/newsboat for some reason. I installed it using apt.
@@brandonlee712 it isn't created by default
"And the idea struck me..." -- just like that. /s
you can also add your "own feed" from github. fi. if you follow someone with the github follow function, "your feed" will get updated when people you follow star something or create new repos. You can also finetune github rss and only subscribe to fi issues, commits to master, or releases of a project. i use this all the time. I like the "fake banners" you created in the feedlist, not enough budlabs though ;)
Around a year and a half ago you reviewed Canto, another terminal RSS reader. Do you wish to compare them, in 2 or 3 lines?
I used Canto when I first started in Linux a long time ago and stuck with it forever but Canto doesn't seem to be under development anymore. It hasn't seen a release in awhile and hasn't had a commit in almost 2 years.
@@DistroTube Thanks a lot Derek.
How about Twitter ? Thank you.
Hm..RSS on RUclips makes it easy to script desktop notifications on my favorite channels.
I use inoreader.com in Firefox for feeds.
Hey Derek! Can you make some "ricing" videos of some more "noob" friendly DEs? Something like Gnome, Xfce, Cinnamon, etc... WMs look cool and all, but not nearly as user friendly as a DE and I would love to see ways of customizing them.
terminals and text files are easier then poorly designed and limited gui setting widget. And in my experience documentation is always much better on "stand-alone-programs" then DE's, especially for configuration, so it is more "user friendly". you got it wrong.
@@dubbeltumme While I also prefer TUIs myself, they're usually not very discoverable. Not everyone wants to learn hotkeys or trudge through manpages upon pages of mostly useless options whenever they try out an app. Docs are often bad, and unlike with shiny GUIs & DEs, you're actually utterly screwed w/o them.
(Also, consider at least dialing down your smugness level when you need to Interject™ noobs with off-topic opinions at all; it's not nice & also makes you look like a poser.)
@@nibblrrr7124 >tells me to "dial down" smugness, when interjecting, while interjecting...
interjectception. reading "man" is important, getting new *nix users to understand that is only helpful.
I'd also like to see something on that, esp. what is feasible. Also, if I want to automate it, hunting down the GTK config file or xfconf keyword that corresponds to some checkbox in a settings menu myself is pretty tedious, so if someone would do that for me for the most important ones... ^^
@@dubbeltumme No, that's not what "interjecting" means. You brought up the topic of whether certain UIs have merit at all, and thus whether OP should be even asking his question, which is utterly unhelpful. I pointed out other perspectives on your one-sided argument, and that you come across as kind of a dick.
Anyway, enlightening people with The Unix Way is much lower on my priority list than enabling ~normies to ditch proprietary OSes for good.
I don't feel like cluttering this thread w/ more on this; feel free to have the last word.
Is Newsboat the best rss reader for terminal?
Someone should make a GUI version and call it NewsBLOAT xd
can you have rss feed with images ? i do 3d art and there is few sites i would like to do that to them
Can we get an RSS feed for your blog?
Can you automate RUclips video downloads from the feed?
You can also add tv shows torrent feeds. Check out showrss.info
Nice tip! Thanks!
Append &_rss=1 to ebay searches sorted by date. Make your own feeds for sites that don't have them with feed43.com.
Can anyone suggest a self-hosted news reader with web interface that lets me j/k through full articles? I've tried Miniflux and it's okay but I'd need to theme it and fix the key bindings then figure out how to import my RUclips API video keyword searches that Feedly currently handles for me.
Nice!
I keep getting, "feed contains no items"
Make sure you've done this, at 2:08, that where you edit your urls file to write in the RSS url's. For example:
rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss
You'd type that into your urls text editor, and save it. Start up newsboat and it should show the link.
@@estebansteverincon7117 I just found the solution. For anyone else who encounters this problem, tap r to reload your feed.
thanks man !!!
We look forward to Powerade's release of Mystic Mountain Blueberry
Some time ago I did a similar app while learning python/ncurses, it has support for categories. gitlab.com/strang3quark/simpleRSS
people still use RSS?
More people use RSS today than ever before.
@@90hijacked on what planet? cause on earth RSS has been on life support for around a decade if not more.
@@AlucardNoir Right. Because it didnt grow exponentially like your typical fad it requires life support, sure.
Doesnt mean theres less people actually using it.
@@90hijacked RSS was released in 1999, 20 years ago. The protocol hasn't received an update in 11 or 12 years and RSS feed readers have been slowly dying left and right. Most notably the Google Reader which was abandoned because of the low number of people using it, and that was in 2013, 6 years ago.
The number of sites that even offer an RSS feed has also been going down - mostly a smart business decision caused by sites trying to keep their readers in their own little walled garden, watching their adverts and paying their subscriptions.
Sure, RSS isn't dead, the same way IRC isn't dead. Thy're both just niche products that new users almost never get into and which are slowly being abandoned by older users. I mean, take IRC for instance, unless you're in the pirate scene, the cracking scene, the hacking scene or are a Linux pseudo poweruser you're unlikely to EVER use it.
RSS is like phone landlines, unless you're a business (or in the case or RSS a new media guy that want to see what other news sites that still use the protocol say) or very old, or Bryan Lunduke you're **probably** not using it.
Atom was updated in 2007 (people mean "web feeds" when they say "RSS"; cf TLS vs SSL). More to the point: *Why would a protocol for such a simple & inexpensive task need to be changed?* *
And while I doubt they're popular, I hope that sites realize that also offering feeds costs nothing compared to the amount of work you need to reliably (!) show up in someone's Facebook feed. Unless you can rely on your readers being dedicated enough to manually check your page or download your stupid app, offering a feed still seems like a no-brainer?
* afaict, HTTP specs had not changed for 15 years until 2014? oO
Also, sure, I'd love to see e.g. push notifications, but does e.g. the New York Times app do that?