As the title says I am in the search for a good RSS/Atom feed reader 
preferably for console(ncurses).

I tried two of them from the ports: snownews and rawdog. I really like
snownews but it seems that it has some problems with RSS 2.0. Even worse
I have been not being able to used with Atom feeds inspite the fact 
that I installed atom2rss extension. 

I have also heard about Newsbeuter (coded by the same guy who wrote tpp
which is recently ported). Has anybody tried to port it to OpenBSD?

http://synflood.at/programs.html


I have also heard but never used Canto? 

http://codezen.org/canto/

The same question. Has anybody being able to use it on OpenBSD? What 
people use to read RSS/Atom feeds? 

Most Kind Regards,
Predrag

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I use snownews rarely (though I like it) and dug in to my
~/.snownews/urls file to find lines like:

http://www.heise.de/ct/rss/artikel-atom.xml|heise c't-Themen||\
    xsltproc /usr/local/share/snownews/atom2rss.xsl -

checked and it works. Are you using it this way?

Bye, 

Marcus

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newsbeuter depends on a lib which can't be ported to openbsd yet.

There's also www/raggle..

Landry

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And this is a port for Canto (http://codezen.org/canto/).

Ok? Comments?

Ciao,
David

[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-gzip which had a name of canto.tgz]

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Thank you so much guys for all your kind answers. These are my comments:

@Marcus 
I still can not get that script (atom2rss) to work but since you 
confirmed that it works I will try it again. I really like snownews.

@Landry
I played with www/raggle. The interface reminds me of calcurse. It does
everything it needs to do (as described in man pages) except one thing. 
I can NOT delete feeds. Namely keybinding Delete doesn't work. 
Keybinding Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down also do not work but they
have alternative keys (0,$,j,k). Delete does not have. I have just a
regular PS2 keyboard (IBM Type M). Nothing fancy. US layout.

Speaking of newsbeuter I had a feeling that you tried porting it. It is
sad that things are written in such non-portable way.

@David
Thank you for the port of Canto. I am compiling as we speak.

Cheers,

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You will be laughing at this one. My 3.5 year old daughter Ekaterina has
fixed my "Keybouard" problem with raggle. Namely, raggle doesn't
recognize Delete key on Type M keyboard. However, it DOES recognize
Del key which is equivalent to decimal point . (when NumLock is 
switched off). Next time before hitting sand I will ask her.

Cheers,
Predrag

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Predrag Punosevac <punosevac72 <at> gmail.com> writes:


Take a look at gwene.org  where you can use a NNTP newsreader !

--
Patrick - http://www.yhk.name

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