Top 3 C RSS Projects

rdrview

10 828 4.1 C

Firefox Reader View as a command line tool

Project mention: Mozilla: Readability.js | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-25

See also the C port here: https://github.com/eafer/rdrview/
It works well with text-mode browsers like w3m.

liferea

2 796 8.6 C

Liferea (Linux Feed Reader), a news reader for GTK/GNOME
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castget

3 95 0.0 C

A simple, command-line based RSS enclosure downloader, primarily intended for automatic, unattended downloading of podcasts.

Project mention: Ask HN: Why is it so hard to download podcasts? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-13

Many people have given their "why," but I'll give another "how".
castget¹ is a simple tool that does exactly what you want, just add a feed URL and it pulls all the episodes. It has a nice catchup mode so you can add feeds that you've listened to elsewhere without pulling all the old episodes too. hpodder² is another tool I've used in the past, but I can't remember why I switched.
Depending on how much you like cobbling together your own solution html-xml-utils³ makes it incredibly easy to script a solution. For example, "curl feed | hxselect -c -s '\n' 'enclosure::attr(url)'" would list just the URLs. feedparser⁴ is a battle tested solution for processing feeds if you'd prefer a proper solution over a hacky shell script.
¹ https://castget.johndal.com/
² https://github.com/jgoerzen/hpodder/
³ https://www.w3.org/Tools/HTML-XML-utils/
⁴ https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser

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