newsboat VS rss2email

If you're using https://newsboat.org, you can add a filter (killfile) to remedy this:

  ignore-article "*" "title =~ \"#shorts\""

I use newsboat.

> Have you used any modern RSS reader recently like inoreader, they load the content of the page without visiting the publishing website.

I'm happy with newsboat[1]; but I'm not surprised that people have integrated scraping into RSS readers.

Fundamentally, that's not a problem with RSS, that's a war between scrapers and content providers. If the email newsletter model persists long enough, I'd expect that people will come out with "newsletter readers" that scrape websites too.

I'm not sure there's a good long-term solution to the problem. Aside from constant vigilance (obfuscation).

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1. https://newsboat.org/

So, I installed a terminal RSS reader called Newsboat and added the feed to it. I have it always running in a terminal, and the scores refresh every minute. I can open the Cricinfo link in a browser by selecting a match and typing o.

Not at the moment. There is an open Github issue asking for that feature, however, no idea if/when that will be implemented: https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/issues/904

Here's part of my newsboat config (works great for subscriptions):

Newsboat RSS / Feed reader

Che rss feader usate? Io per il momento uso Newsboat su Desktop e Feeder su Mobile

I personally prefer to read my feeds via my email client, and hacked up an RSS to email script:

https://github.com/skx/rss2email/

Having the feeds in your mail client makes sorting, and searching trivial. Plus you get the content archived for future reference.

I use rss2email to send feed contents to my inbox, from there I have a good searchable archive wherever I am - be it desktop or mobile.

https://github.com/skx/rss2email/

I never got the hang of using a browser to read feeds, email suits me much more naturally.

I wrote yet another "rss to email" tools, which is what I use for consuming feeds:

https://github.com/skx/rss2email/

(Rewritten in go, primarily because the standard r2e was the last daemon/program on my host that required python. So switching let me drop a whole bunch of dependencies.)

I currently use a go based version of rss2email from https://github.com/skx/rss2email . Works great, and the dev is very responsive to bugs or feature requests.

RSS is awesome! I never got the hang of using a read-application, instead I use rss2email to get copies of posts delivered to my inbox.

There are a few different tools for getting the feeds to email, my own is a pretty simple golang application I run in a docker-container:

https://github.com/skx/rss2email/

You can build from tip, or install the 1.16beta1 release, if you want to experiment. (Something I did for a couple of my projects, for example.)