Malin Freeborn
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input examples are now given as ```bash input $ARG1 ``` While outputs use md's '> ' sign as a quote.
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| newsboat |
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Create the configuration directory before you start, and add at least 1 URL.
mkdir ~/.config/newsboat
echo 'https://voidlinux.org/atom.xml foss tech' >> ~/.config/newsboat/urls
Start newsobat and press r to load your feed.
To add a feed, you can press E to edit that urls file.
Examples of Feeds
https://www.schneier.com/feed/atom/ infosec news
The words after the URL - infosec news - becomes tags.
You can input a Youtube channel by adding this, with the channel's ID at the end:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCbbsW7_Esx8QZ8PgJ13pGxw vids #1MinFilms
To get the channel ID without hunting:
curl *'https://www.youtube.com/@1minfilms'* | grep -oE 'browseId":"U\w+"' | tail | cut -d'"' -f3
You can add arbitrary commands to get an RSS feed.
For example, to get a Gemini feed, install gemget, then put this in the configuration file:
"exec:gemget gemini://alexschroeder.ch:1965/do/blog/rss --output -" gemini rpg
All gits can be used as RSS feeds:
https://github.com/isamert/scli/commits/master.atom
Commands
Eto edit the URLs fileRto reload everythingtto browse by tagsnto mark an item as read- Ctrl + a to mark everything in a feed as read
Configuration Options
You can use a macro by pressing comma, then a key. With this one, you press comma + v to see a video:
macro v set browser "mpv --ytdl-format=mp4 %u &>/dev/null&"; open-in-browser-and-mark-read
(this needs mpv and yt-dlp installed)
Or or ,o to open an article in w3m:
macro o set browser "w3m %u"; open-in-browser-and-mark-read ; set browser "w3m %u"
Add vim-like keys:
bind-key j next
bind-key k prev
bind-key j down article
bind-key k up article