rss2email VS newsboat

For a long time I've been a happy user of rss2email, originally written by Aaron Swartz. https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email

It periodically fetches the rss feeds, and sends the content to a specified email address where you can use your email reader to sort them into folders.

Assuming you have a "good" email client, this takes care of most of my RSS requirements: Free software, offline availability, and the ability to read anywhere.

The only missing feature I think it could use is a nice GUI to manage feeds.

If you are looking for free high polling frequency your other option is probably self-hosting. You can run https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email yourself and configure the polling rate. You can probably use the SMTP service of your current email provider to send these messages at no additional cost to you. You do need an always-on computer to run it on and the knowledge to run it (or the willingness to learn) but I know a lot of people enjoy rss2email.

looks like there's a lib for that already too https://pypi.org/project/rss2email/

You can do an equivalent thing on your own machine with https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email

Debian/Ubuntu has the original version of rss2email (https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email) in the repos, and it is in the AUR. Not sure about Fedora or SUSE.

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