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[#]: subject: (Revive your RSS feed with Newsboat in the Linux terminal)
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[#]: via: (https://opensource.com/article/20/2/newsboat)
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[#]: author: (Scott Nesbitt https://opensource.com/users/scottnesbitt)
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Revive your RSS feed with Newsboat in the Linux terminal
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Newsboat is an excellent RSS reader, whether you need a basic set of
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features or want your application to do a whole lot more.
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![Boat on the ocean with Creative Commons sail][1]
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Psst. Word on the web is that RSS died in 2013. That's when Google pulled the plug on Google Reader.
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Don't believe everything that you hear. RSS is alive. It's well. It's still a great way to choose the information you want to read without algorithms making the decision for you. All you need is the [right feed reader][2].
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Back in January, Opensource.com Correspondent [Kevin Sonney][3] introduced a nifty terminal RSS reader [called Newsboat][4]. In his article, Kevin scratched Newsboat's surface. I figured it was time to take a deeper dive into what Newsboat can do.
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### Adding RSS feeds to Newsboat
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As Kevin writes, "installing Newsboat is pretty easy since it is included with most distributions (and Homebrew on macOS)." You can, as Kevin also notes, import a [file containing RSS feeds][5] from another reader. If this is your first kick at the RSS can or it's been a while since you've used an RSS reader, chances are you don't have one of those files handy.
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Not to worry. You just need to do some copying and pasting. Go to the folder **.newsboat** in your **/home** directory. Once you're there, open the file **urls** in a text editor. Then, go to the websites you want to read, find the links to their RSS feeds, and copy and paste them into the **urls** file.
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![Newsboat urls file][6]
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Start Newsboat, and you're ready to get reading.
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### Reading your feeds
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As Kevin Sonney points out, you refresh your feeds by pressing the **r** or **R** keys on your keyboard. To read the articles from a feed, press **Enter** to open that feed and scroll down the list. Then, press **Enter** to read an item.
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![Newsboat reading][7]
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Return to the list of articles by pressing **q**. Press **q** again to return to your list of feeds.
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Every so often, you might run into a feed that shows just part of an article. That can be annoying. To get the full article, press **o** to open it in your desktop's default web browser. On my desktop, for example, that's Firefox. You can change the browser Newsboat works with; I'll explain that below.
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### Following links
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Hyperlinking has been a staple of the web since its beginnings at CERN in the early 1990s. It's hard to find an article published online that doesn't contain at least a couple of links that point elsewhere.
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Instead of leaving links embedded in an article or post, Newsboat gathers them into a numbered list at the end of the article or post.
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![Hyperlinks in Newsboat][8]
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To follow a link, press the number beside it. In the screenshot above, you'd press **4** to open the link to the homepage of one of the contributors to that article. The link, as you've probably guessed, opens in your default browser.
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### Using Newsboat as a client for other feed readers
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You might use a web-based feed reader, but might also want to read your RSS feeds in something a bit more minimal on your desktop. Newsboat can do that.
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It works with several feed readers, including The Old Reader, Inoreader, Newsblur, Tiny Tiny RSS, FeedHQ, and the newsreader apps for [ownCloud][9] and [Nextcloud][10]. Before you can read feeds from any of them, you'll need to do a little work.
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Go back to the **.newsboat** folder in your **/home** directory and create a file named **config**. Then add the settings that hook Newsboat into one of the RSS readers it supports. You can find more information about the specific settings for each reader in [Newsboat's documentation][11].
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Here's an example of the settings I use to connect Newsboat with the newsreader app in my instance of Nextcloud:
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```
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urls-source "ocnews"
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ocnews-url "<https://my.nextcloud.instance>"
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ocnews-login "myUserName"
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ocnews-password "NotTellingYouThat!"
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```
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I've tested this with Nextcloud, The Old Reader, Inoreader, and Newsblur. Newsboat worked seamlessly with all of them.
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![Newsboat with The Old Reader][12]
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### Other useful configuration tricks
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You can really unleash Newsboat's power and flexibility by tapping into [its configuration options][13]. That includes changing text colors, the order Newsboat sorts feeds, where it saves articles, the length of time Newsboat keeps articles, and more.
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Below are a few of the options I've added to my configuration file.
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#### Change Newsboat's default browser
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As I mentioned a few paragraphs back, Newsboat opens articles in your default graphical web browser. If you want to read feeds in a [text-only browser][14] like w3m or ELinks, add this to your Newsboat configuration file:
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`browser "/path/to/browser %u"`
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```
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In my configuration file, I've set w3m up as my browser:
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```
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`browser "/usr/bin/w3m %u"`
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```
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![Newsboat with w3m][15]
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#### Remove read articles
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I like an uncluttered RSS feed. That means getting rid of articles I've already read. Add this setting to the configuration file to have Newsboat do that automatically:
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`show-read-feeds no`
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```
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#### Refresh feeds at launch
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Life gets busy. Sometimes, I go a day or two without checking my RSS feeds. That means having to refresh them after I fire Newsboat up. Sure, I can press **r** or **R**, but why not have the application do it for me? I've added this setting to my configuration file to have Newsboat refresh all of my feeds when I launch it:
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```
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`refresh-on-startup yes`
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```
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If you have a lot of feeds, it can take a while to refresh them. I have around 80 feeds, and it takes over a minute to get new content from all of them.
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### Is that everything?
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Not even close. In addition to all of its configuration options, Newsboat also has a number of command-line switches you can use when you fire it up. Read more about them in the [documentation][16].
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On the surface, Newsboat is simple. But a lot of power and flexibility hides under its hood. That makes Newsboat an excellent RSS reader for anyone who needs a basic set of features or for someone who needs their RSS reader to do a whole lot more.
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via: https://opensource.com/article/20/2/newsboat
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作者：[Scott Nesbitt][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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[a]: https://opensource.com/users/scottnesbitt
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/styles/image-full-size/public/lead-images/CreativeCommons_ideas_520x292_1112JS.png?itok=otei0vKb (Boat on the ocean with Creative Commons sail)
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[2]: https://opensource.com/article/17/3/rss-feed-readers
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[3]: https://opensource.com/users/ksonney
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[4]: https://opensource.com/article/20/1/open-source-rss-feed-reader
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[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPML
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[6]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/newsboat-urls-file.png (Newsboat urls file)
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[7]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/newsboat-reading.png (Newsboat reading)
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[8]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/newsboat-links.png (Hyperlinks in Newsboat)
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[9]: https://github.com/owncloudarchive/news
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[10]: https://github.com/nextcloud/news
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[11]: https://newsboat.org/releases/2.18/docs/newsboat.html#_newsboat_as_a_client_for_newsreading_services
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[12]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/newsboat-oldreader.png (Newsboat with The Old Reader)
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[13]: https://newsboat.org/releases/2.18/docs/newsboat.html#_example_configuration
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[14]: https://opensource.com/article/16/12/web-browsers-linux-command-line
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[15]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/newsboat-read-with-w3m.png (Newsboat with w3m)
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[16]: https://newsboat.org/releases/2.18/docs/newsboat.html
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