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Newsboat has some excellent features that make it extensible, directly and indirectly. It just uses a flat file for it's RSS feeds, which means you can write y
by Zhyl 4y ago
Newsboat has some excellent features that make it extensible, directly and indirectly.
It just uses a flat file for it's RSS feeds, which means you can write your own scripts to set up categorisation or Similar. I have one that takes the name of a YouTube channel and adds the somewhat hidden RSS feed.
It allows filtering, so I can only see the videos on topics I'm interested in - amazing for the channels that put out loads of spam but the occasional topic/series I like. This puts it above other YouTube client apps.
And all the results are stored in a SQLITE database, so if you need to migrate, sync or query it's very easy.
The one thing I'd want is perhaps to be able to edit or update titles in line so that I can format them or use scripts to get more info (e.g. displaying upvotes from Reddit or topic tags from BBC news articles). Currently it overwrites everything on update, which is fair but limiting.
- mbwgh 4y agoBoy do I feel stupid now. I have been using newsboat for almost five years now, but it never occurred to me that I could apply filtering rules for the exact use case you described. It might be a fool's errand though if the spam is not obvious enough to catch with a regex.
- Zhyl 4y agoYeah, it really suits when they put the type/category/series of video in the title.