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Looks nice. But I'ts strange that there are so many "simple" feedreaders. Where are the tools for powerusers? How many feeds and formats are people using usuall

Looks nice. But I'ts strange that there are so many "simple" feedreaders. Where are the tools for powerusers? How many feeds and formats are people using usually to be satisfied with simple?

tester457 2y ago
What poweruser tools are you missing in newsboat?
- FerretFred 2y ago
  This is an excellent comment!
- ghostpepper 2y ago
  Not the OP but my biggest missing features would be: - the ability to send the output of one smart query into the input of another - not needing to escape every quotation mark in a query, and maybe the ability to combine operands eg ( title =~ {linux,macos} as opposed to title =~ \"linux\" or title =~ \"macOS\") - a dashboard mode that can show a snippet of the top headlines and maybe autoscroll - ability to mark an article as read after a certain delay I've started working on my own "power user" RSS reader that lets you weight the keywords you're interested in (so an article that hits important keywords but is older could be displayed above an article that's newer) but it's still closer to a proof-of-concept than a complete app.
  - xyzsparetimexyz 2y ago
    =~ does a regex match, so you can use =~ \"linux|macos\"
  - stevekemp 2y ago
    I think this is one of the reasons I started using rss2email back in the day - I could do the filtering, searching, and manipulation using my preferred email client. Originally that would have been mutt, later my own client, and later still I switched to gsuite. I did add support for excluding entries/posts based on title, body, regular expression, and similar, but at the end of the day I just fetch all feed entries and save them as emails. The later processing can be done by any client and that's pretty flexible. There's very little custom processing required in the RSS-processing itself.
- slightwinder 2y ago
  A good GUI with Real scripting. A portable version. Maybe better documentation. A client/server-architecture, or some other kind of headless mode with remote access.
toyg 2y ago
Feedparsing is a classic starter project for people who want to learn a language.

Looks nice. But I'ts strange that there are so many "simple" feedreaders. Where are the tools for powerusers? How many feeds and formats are people using usually to be satisfied with simple?

tester457 2y ago

What poweruser tools are you missing in newsboat?

FerretFred 2y ago
This is an excellent comment!
ghostpepper 2y ago
Not the OP but my biggest missing features would be: - the ability to send the output of one smart query into the input of another - not needing to escape every quotation mark in a query, and maybe the ability to combine operands eg ( title =~ {linux,macos} as opposed to title =~ \"linux\" or title =~ \"macOS\") - a dashboard mode that can show a snippet of the top headlines and maybe autoscroll - ability to mark an article as read after a certain delay I've started working on my own "power user" RSS reader that lets you weight the keywords you're interested in (so an article that hits important keywords but is older could be displayed above an article that's newer) but it's still closer to a proof-of-concept than a complete app.
- xyzsparetimexyz 2y ago
  =~ does a regex match, so you can use =~ \"linux|macos\"
- stevekemp 2y ago
  I think this is one of the reasons I started using rss2email back in the day - I could do the filtering, searching, and manipulation using my preferred email client. Originally that would have been mutt, later my own client, and later still I switched to gsuite. I did add support for excluding entries/posts based on title, body, regular expression, and similar, but at the end of the day I just fetch all feed entries and save them as emails. The later processing can be done by any client and that's pretty flexible. There's very little custom processing required in the RSS-processing itself.
slightwinder 2y ago
A good GUI with Real scripting. A portable version. Maybe better documentation. A client/server-architecture, or some other kind of headless mode with remote access.

toyg 2y ago

Feedparsing is a classic starter project for people who want to learn a language.