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 <hiltjo_AT_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_AT_^.* \([a-zA-Z]*://\)\(.*\)$_AT_\1\2_AT_')
> [ ! "$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)
>
Received on Sun Aug 05 2012 - 16:11:56 CEST
