RSS feed in a Konsole/Terminal

[viking60]

You might be using something like Akregator today to read the news feeds from your favorite sources.
To get news feeds in the terminal you can install newsbeuter
The next thing to do is to create the ~/.newsbeuter directory:

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mkdir .newsbeuter

Then we go in there and create the file urls:

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sudo nano ~/.newsbeuter/urls

and we enter the RSSfeeds in that file:

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http://bjoernvold.com/forum/feed.php

You can enter the url of any news feed that you follow in there
If you want to get the news from the Mageia Blog add this line in urls (righ-click and copy the link fron the RSS button on the site)

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http://blog.mageia.org/en/feed


Now you are ready to fire it up with the command

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newsbeuter

but in order to renew the news you have to refresh it by hitting "r" all the time so we want to autoload the updates.
Therefor we create the file ~/.newsbeuter/config

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sudo nano ~/.newsbeuter/config

and we put this single line in there:

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auto-reload yes

and save it.
Good for mobile phones and SSH.

Edit:
I just realised that newsbeuter is not in the repos so time to request it then ....
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7735
(It can be "stolen" from Mandriva 2010, 2011 and 2012)

[zooplah]

# urpmi canto

That should get you a CLI feed reader. I have one of my own (that I don't see ever making it into a distro, but it fits my needs) and it seems odd that I'm the only one who allows to enter URLs from the interface and optionally subscribe to them from there instead of editing text files.