Newsboat
Original author(s) | Alexander Batischev and contributors |
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Developer(s) | Alexander Batischev and contributors |
Initial release | September 20, 2017[1] |
Stable release | 2.35[2]
/ 24 March 2024 |
Repository | |
Written in | C++ |
Operating system | Linux, macOS, FreeBSD |
Available in | Catalan, Chinese, Chinese (Taiwan), Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian[3] |
Type | News aggregator |
License | MIT License |
Website | www |
Newsboat is a
Installation
Newsboat has been tested on Linux (with glibc and musl-libc), FreeBSD and macOS.[6] The program can be installed from binary packages on major Linux and BSD distributions and Homebrew,[7] it is available as a distribution-independent snap package, or it can be compiled from source.[8]
Operation
Newsboat is controlled entirely with the keyboard,[9] and its default keybindings resemble those of vi. The keyboard shortcuts and a lot of other options can be configured with a single text file.[10]
The feeds are placed in another plain textfile. Because Newsboat, like most feedreaders, supports the OPML format it can also import files from other feedreaders.[11] In addition to merely importing feedlist from other readers, Newsboat can act as a client for news reading services like Tiny Tiny RSS, The Old Reader, Inoreader, NewsBlur, the newsreader apps for ownCloud and Nextcloud, and some more.[10][12]
Podcast support
Newsboat also provides basic podcast support through Podboat, a separate but included application that facilitates downloading and queuing of podcast episodes. It does not actually play the podcasts; for this an external media player is needed.[13] While viewing a podcast feed in Newsboat, a user can press a single key to download the episode to their download queue. All the information will be stored in a queue file in the newsboat directory. Podboat reads this queue and downloads the episode(s) to the user's local drive.[11]
Reception
According to a review on
See also
- List of feed aggregators
- Comparison of feed aggregators
References
- ^ "Newsboat". GitHub.
- ^ "Release r2.35: Release Newsboat 2.35 · newsboat/newsboat". Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ Newsboat GitHub repository
- ^ Krennmair, Andreas (2021-11-14), ABANDONED! An actively maintained fork is available in newsboat repo, retrieved 2021-11-15
- ^ "newsboat/CHANGELOG.md at master - newsboat/newsboat". Newsboat on GitHub. 2017-09-20. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
This is what Newsbeuter 2.10 should have been. Newsboat continues Newsbeuter's version numbering to show that we are a spiritual continuation, not a separate project.
- ^ "The Newsboat RSS Feedreader". newsboat.org. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
- ^ "newsboat package versions". Repology. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ^ "The Newsboat RSS Feedreader". Newsboat documentation. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
- ^ "How To Use Command Line Newsboat RSS Feed Reader On Linux?". Fossbytes. 2021-06-09. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ^ Opensource.com. Archivedfrom the original on 2021-04-11. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
- ^ Opensource.com. Archivedfrom the original on 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
- ^ "The Newsboat RSS Feedreader". Newsboat documentation. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
- ^ "The Newsboat RSS Feedreader". Newsboat documentation. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
- ^ Baker, Luke (2018-07-16). "Newsboat: A Snazzy Text-Based RSS Feed Reader". LinuxLinks. Archived from the original on 2021-02-28. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
- ^ "FOSSPicks - Page: 1.3 » Linux Magazine". Linux Magazine. October 2019. Retrieved 2022-06-09.