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Newsbeuter is an RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals. RSS and Atom are a
number of widely-used XML formats to transmit, publish and syndicate articles,
for example news or blog articles.Simply put, Newsbeuter allows me to get all of my news articles in the morning with a single click! It is a very powerful program with bunches of options. Best yet, It’s already in the antiX distro.
In order to try it out, simply type
newsbeuterinto a terminal. antiX already contain a couple of example files, so no prior setup necessary to check it out.Now, that being said, you can also do the below customizations in ~/.newsbeuter.
These are my own that provide a slightly better experience with colors and more sites.
I am using Lynx for the web browser portion of this. All settings can be changed in ~/.newsbeuter/config including the default browser.apt-get install lynx
You can use whatever browser you prefer, but lynx opens in the same window and uses the same basic navigation.
Add more urls:
Here is a list of urls you can try: put them in ~/.newsbeuter/urlshttp://feeds.feedburner.com/leninology http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss http://planet.debian.org/rss20.xml https://www.howtoforge.com/feed http://feeds.nytimes.com/nyt/rss/HomePage http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews http://hosted.ap.org/lineups/SCIENCEHEADS-rss_2.0.xml?SITE=OHLIM&SECTION=HOME http://feeds.wired.com/wired/index https://www.antixforum.com/feed/ ### This is for password example: http://username:password@hostname.domain.tld/feed.rssNow for the configuration:
Open a terminal and make a directory in ~/.newsbeuter for configuration:
nano ~/.newsbeuter/config
Add these items for a better experience, and a place to start making changes:auto-reload yes browser lynx cleanup-on-quit yes download-path "~/downloads/podcasts" notify-screen yes player mplayer refresh-on-startup yes reload-time 20 reload-threads 2 # Write error log error-log "~/.newsbeuter/error.log" # binds ---------------------------------------------------------------- unbind-key t unbind-key R bind-key \ reload-all bind-key "RIGHT" select-tag bind-key "SPACE" open # hide articles matching: --------------------------------------------- ignore-article "*" "title =~ \"Sponsor\"" ignore-article "*" "title =~ \"Advertisement\"" ignore-mode "display" # formatting and colorization ------------------------------------------ articlelist-format "%4i %f %D %?T?|%-17T| ?%t" highlight feedlist "^ *[0-9]+ *N " color156 default highlight articlelist "^ *[0-9]+ *N " color156 default highlight article "(^Feed:.*|^Title:.*|^Author:.*)" color75 default highlight article "(^Link:.*|^Date:.*)" color75 default highlight article "^Podcast Download URL:.*" color71 default highlight article "^Links:" white color240 underline highlight article "\\[[0-9][0-9]*\\]" color72 default bold highlight article "\\[image [0-9][0-9]*\\]" color72 default bold highlight article "\\[embedded flash: [0-9][0-9]*\\]" color72 default bold highlight article ":.*\\(link\\)$" color74 default highlight article ":.*\\(image\\)$" color74 default highlight article ":.*\\(embedded flash\\)$" color74 default color listnormal white default color listfocus default color240 color info default color240Add a line to your personal menu to open Newsbeuter. The one I use includes sizing the window a bit:)
[exec] (Newsbeuter) {/usr/bin/lxterminal --geometry=102x44 -e newsbeuter}
This opens an lxterminal with Newsbeuter.So, thats it! Let me know how newsbeuter is working for you.
Would love it if people would post their config file and urls here for future reference!
- This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by sleekmason.
sleekmason
After messing with the colors for a while I have a more readable (for me at least), screen. Heres my personal config I thought I would share. Screenshot attached.
## sleekmason's Newsbeuter config ## 19 Feb. 2018 auto-reload yes browser lynx cleanup-on-quit yes download-path "~/downloads/podcasts" notify-screen yes player mplayer refresh-on-startup yes reload-time 20 reload-threads 2 keep-articles-days 3 max-items 100 # Write error log error-log "~/.newsbeuter/error.log" # binds ---------------------------------------------------------------- unbind-key t unbind-key R bind-key \ reload-all bind-key RIGHT next article bind-key LEFT prev article bind-key / quit #bind-key "p" select-tag #bind-key space open #bind-key RIGHT next articlelist #bind-key LEFT prev articlelist #bind-key LEFT next-feed articlelist #bind-key RIGHT prev-feed articlelist # hide articles matching: --------------------------------------------- ignore-article "*" "title =~ \"Sponsor\"" ignore-article "*" "title =~ \"Advertisement\"" ignore-mode "display" # formatting and colorization ------------------------------------------ articlelist-format "%4i %f %D %?T?|%-17T| ?%t" highlight feedlist "^ *[0-9]+ *N " color153 default highlight articlelist "^ *[0-9]+ *N " color153 color66 highlight article "(^Feed:.*|^Title:.*|^Author:.*)" color74 default highlight article "(^Link:.*|^Date:.*)" color74 default highlight article "^Podcast Download URL:.*" color109 default highlight article "^Links:" color109 default underline highlight article "\\[[0-9][0-9]*\\]" color72 default bold highlight article "\\[image [0-9][0-9]*\\]" color72 default bold highlight article "\\[embedded flash: [0-9][0-9]*\\]" color72 default bold highlight article ":.*\\(link\\)$" color152 default highlight article ":.*\\(image\\)$" color152 default highlight article ":.*\\(embedded flash\\)$" color152 default color listnormal color66 default color listfocus color152 color23 color listfocus_unread color153 color23 color info color153 color23 color listnormal_unread color152 default color article color152 default color background default default- This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by sleekmason. Reason: added: color listfocus_unread to config
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- This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by sleekmason. Reason: Added keep-article-days and max-items
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Hey,thanks!
This will save a lot of time for others.sleekmason
**UPDATED** Just updated the config to fix a highlighted color issue, and to change the key bindings to something reasonable. Probably finished with this now. . . If you grabbed my config yesterday, you will want the updated version.
Question: since ~/.newsbeuter exists in the distro, would putting some, or all of the items in this config there as a ready template? I can change colors to match conky, (or the other way around:) You could even comment out the colors section if need be.
Anonymous
Careful! Unless each of the pre-installed links to rss feeds is linux-related,
begs the question “Should a distro be recommending/steering users toward certain news sources?”^—v
antiX-12 Edelweißpiraten
Among the pre-installed browser bookmarks, one linked to a historical site describing the Edelweißpiraten.
One pinheaded reviewer claimed (and was parroted by various social media twits/trolls) that antiX was promoting nazi propaganda.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelweiss_Pirates
The first Edelweißpiraten appeared in the late 1930s in western Germany, comprising mostly young people between 14 and 18. Individual groups were closely associated with different regions but identifiable by a common style of dress with their own edelweiss badge and by their opposition to what they saw as the paramilitary nature of the Hitler Youth.[1] Subgroups of the Edelweißpiraten included the Navajos, centred on Cologne, the Kittelbach Pirates of Oberhausen and Düsseldorf, and the Roving Dudes of Essen.[2] According to one Nazi official in 1941, “Every child knows who the Kittelbach Pirates are. They are everywhere; there are more of them than there are Hitler Youth… They beat up the patrols… They never take no for an answer.”[3]
Although they rejected the Nazis’ authoritarianism, the Edelweißpiraten’s nonconformist behaviour tended to be restricted to petty provocations. Despite this, they represented a group of youth who rebelled against the government’s regimentation of leisure and were unimpressed by the propaganda touting Volksgemeinschaft (“people’s community”).[1]
During the war, many Edelweißpiraten supported the Allies and assisted deserters from the German Army. Some groups also collected propaganda leaflets dropped by Allied aircraft and pushed them through letterboxes.[2]
sleekmason
Careful! Unless each of the pre-installed links to rss feeds is linux-related,
begs the question “Should a distro be recommending/steering users toward certain news sources?”For use in the distro, yes. As I’m posting a personal file, no. That being said, lots of people want news sources and with that in mind I picked a few that were the ‘most common’, and a few tech sites.
One pinheaded reviewer claimed (and was parroted by various social media twits/trolls) that antiX was promoting nazi propaganda.
Wow! Couldn’t be further from the truth. It deeply saddens me the hatred in peoples hearts. I cannot tolerate that kind of trash.
For use in the distro, yes. As I’m posting a personal file, no.
Okay, got it. Just understand that my “careful” response was in reaction to reading
leninology
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Question: since ~/.newsbeuter exists in the distro, would putting some, or all of the items in this config there as a ready template?sleekmason
I would take that one out now. Point taken. Might want to check in ~/.newsbeuter with a fresh install. It may have been left over from the existing three that came with antiX. I overwrote those. I don’t have an edit button for that post anymore. If I could be provided that, or if a moderator could remove the leninology link, that would be appreciated.
sleekmason
@skidoo, After checking in Virtualbox, I can verify the leninology link comes with the distro! I couldn’t understand your reference at first because all my links were found by me but two. The original first two links in the url file that comes installed. These of course I trusted. Why wouldn’t I?
For this reason, the link was overlooked.
In any event, I still cannot edit the OP, so can make no changes.sleekmason
Newsboat is replacing newsbeuter!
Hi! Last Newsbeuter release was three years ago, and its author is mostly inactive these days. I’m leading a fork called Newsboat; we already released all the bugfixes that accumulated in Newsbeuter repo, plus some of our own. Debian, Ubuntu, and OpenBSD already provide packages and ports, and there’s also an Ubuntu Snap. Check Newsboat out, it’s just like Newsboat, but maintained!
Recieved this on my WordPress blog.
apt-get install newsboat
After installation, open a terminal and:
newsboat
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Newsboat will automatically change your configs over.sleekmason
I am Recommending “w3m” as a browser replacement to lynx. It’s easier, has a config file already in ~/.home, and better colors, AND with inline IMAGES!
apt-get install w3m w3m-img
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Heres the link to the manual: http://w3m.sourceforge.net/MANUALremember to change the browser line in the ~/.newsbeuter/config file.
If you have changed to newsboat, the config is located in ~/.config/newsboat (if switching from newsbeuter), in ~/.newsboat if you haven’t installed newsbeuter before installing newsboat.
Change “browser lynx” to “browser w3m” Save and give it a try!
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