Show HN: Rssnix – Unix-style filesystem-based RSS/Atom/JSON Feed fetcher/reader
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Re: Show HN: Rssnix – Unix-style filesystem-based RSS/Atom/JSON Feed fetcher/reader
#2What does this thing do?
Re: Show HN: Rssnix – Unix-style filesystem-based RSS/Atom/JSON Feed fetcher/reader
#3Looks like this is a command line RSS reader system(?)...
Re: Show HN: Rssnix – Unix-style filesystem-based RSS/Atom/JSON Feed fetcher/reader
#4Looks nice. How do you present the content for users to read? Do you use a terminal based HTML browser, or convert the content to plain text and present the plain text?
Re: Show HN: Rssnix – Unix-style filesystem-based RSS/Atom/JSON Feed fetcher/reader
#5What does this thing do?
It's an RSS feed reader. It.... reads RSS feeds.
Re: Show HN: Rssnix – Unix-style filesystem-based RSS/Atom/JSON Feed fetcher/reader
#6Glad to see more CLI based RSS readers!
Currently I'm using Newsboat (an actively maintained fork of Newsbeuter, written in C++ and in the process of migrating to Rust).
Assuming that you're familiar with it, do you have any different design objectives?
Re: Show HN: Rssnix – Unix-style filesystem-based RSS/Atom/JSON Feed fetcher/reader
#7Looks nice. How do you present the content for users to read? Do you use a terminal based HTML browser, or convert the content to plain text and present the plain text?
I have a small babashka script to pull some news from my terminal and I have had good result doing something like this:
curl article-url | readable | w3m -T text/html
Re: Show HN: Rssnix – Unix-style filesystem-based RSS/Atom/JSON Feed fetcher/reader
#8Give it a maildir output option and it will be much more useful. Such tools already exist but the more options the better.
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#9Give it a maildir output option and it will be much more useful. Such tools already exist but the more options the better.
One could also build a FUSE file system that represents each post as a file and mount that.
Re: Show HN: Rssnix – Unix-style filesystem-based RSS/Atom/JSON Feed fetcher/reader
#10Nice work! Love it.