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I wrote a custom RSS reader which supports regular expressions for deciding if I want to see a post. So for hacker news I have the following: mike@snake:~$ rss
by mike-cardwell 8y ago
I wrote a custom RSS reader which supports regular expressions for deciding if I want to see a post. So for hacker news I have the following:
mike@snake:~$ rss --list|grep ycombinator
155. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
mike@snake:~$ rss --list-grep 155
74. title = (?i)\b((e-?|web)?mail|irc|internet relay chat|grpc|hashicorp|rust|debian|c\+\+|perl|(bit|name)coin|tor|pgp|gpg|gnupg|openpgp|digitalocean|ovh|linode|grepular|email\sprivacy\stester|parsemail|ssl|https|backdoor|apache|exim|distribut|peer (to|2) peer|vpn|secur|anonym|webrtc|torrent|webtorrent|nextcloud|owncloud|graphql)(ity|ous|e?s|ing?|ed?)?\b
I run it from a cron job, and it just emails me new RSS items. Manages state in an sqlite db. I have a sieve filter to filter those emails into a "News" folder in my mailbox. So I can just read them from whatever email client I'm using on whatever device I'm on.
I don't get why people need to use a third party service for feeds, or a special client for it either.