RSS readers and podcatchers

RSS readers and podcatchers

[Geoff Shang]

Hi,

I must be one of the last people on Earth to dip my towe in both of these 
particular ponds, but I am finally doing it and would like suggestions of 
software to use for reading RSS feeds and downloading podcasts.  I've found 
Snownews for RSS feeds and plan on looking at it (it sounds like the kind 
of thing I'm looking for).  Have not investigated podcatching at all.

I'm looking for text-mode software, not Gnome.  I run Debian but am happy 
to compile from sources.

Thanks,
Geoff.

Re: RSS readers and podcatchers

[Jude DaShiell]

podracer and bashpodder are both command line packages that work when set 
up.  bashpodder doesn't need bittorrent to be installed in order to work 
and if it has its other dependencies met can even run under windows in a 
linux environment.  rss2email is available in the debian environment and 
rather than allow you to read rss feeds, you set it up and have it save 
your feeds and when you run it the program puts email messages of the 
formatted feeds material in the account you specify.  Also works in 
command line.

Re: RSS readers and podcatchers

[Daniel Dalton]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I must be one of the last people on Earth to dip my towe in both of these 
> particular ponds, but I am finally doing it and would like suggestions of 
> software to use for reading RSS feeds and downloading podcasts.  I've found

Well I only know about podcasts...
I used hpodder and that worked well with speakup.

Once I had it all setup all I needed to do was
hpodder update

and the new podcasts came in.

apt-get install hpodder

Then read the man page to find out how to add feeds.
Actually I googled for info because back then I didn't really like man 
pages.

Or you could just do
apt-cache search podcast

I did that and that is how I found hpodder...

--
Daniel Dalton

http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
d.dalton@iinet.net.au

Re: RSS readers and podcatchers

[Mike Gorse]

Rawdog is another rss reader that I've sometimes used.  It will take its 
list of rss feeds that you've configured and generate an html file with 
the contents of the feeds.

-- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --

Re: RSS readers and podcatchers

[David Csercsics]

Geoff Shang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I must be one of the last people on Earth to dip my towe in both of
> these particular ponds, but I am finally doing it and would like
> suggestions of software to use for reading RSS feeds and downloading
> podcasts. I've found Snownews for RSS feeds and plan on looking at it
> (it sounds like the kind of thing I'm looking for). Have not
> investigated podcatching at all.
>
> I'm looking for text-mode software, not Gnome.


I run bashpodder from a cron job for podcasts and i usually use snownews 
which generally does a good job for RSS, though you need extensions for 
it to handle atom feeds correctly.  Rss2email works, however, it'll fill 
your inbox in a hurry if you subscribe to a large number of feeds as I 
do. I already get a lot of mail as it is so this is not handy. I also 
find rss2email to be a bit clunky because it emails you the url for the 
article but you then have to paste that to a browser to actually look at 
the content. This doesn't seem useful when you could get an RSS reader 
like snownews and just press o after you've looked at the description 
which will happily put you in your favourite browser and give you the info.

Re: RSS readers and podcatchers

[Jude DaShiell]

rss2email doesn't actually do what its description claims. There's another 
text reader called raggle for rss too.


On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, David Csercsics wrote:

> Geoff Shang wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I must be one of the last people on Earth to dip my towe in both of
>>  these particular ponds, but I am finally doing it and would like
>>  suggestions of software to use for reading RSS feeds and downloading
>>  podcasts. I've found Snownews for RSS feeds and plan on looking at it
>>  (it sounds like the kind of thing I'm looking for). Have not
>>  investigated podcatching at all.
>>
>>  I'm looking for text-mode software, not Gnome.
>
>
> I run bashpodder from a cron job for podcasts and i usually use snownews 
> which generally does a good job for RSS, though you need extensions for it to 
> handle atom feeds correctly.  Rss2email works, however, it'll fill your inbox 
> in a hurry if you subscribe to a large number of feeds as I do. I already get 
> a lot of mail as it is so this is not handy. I also find rss2email to be a 
> bit clunky because it emails you the url for the article but you then have to 
> paste that to a browser to actually look at the content. This doesn't seem 
> useful when you could get an RSS reader like snownews and just press o after 
> you've looked at the description which will happily put you in your favourite 
> browser and give you the info.
>
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Re: RSS readers and podcatchers

[Tony Baechler]

Hi,

My solution for both is rss2email which is a Debian package and requires 
Python.  As the name implies, it parses rss feeds and sends you email.  
I've been using it since 2005 with success.  It isn't a podcast client 
in the traditional sense but it supports enclosures so you can access 
them as you would regular links.  I use Mutt and can go into urlview, 
arrow to the link I want and open it in Lynx.  If it's an mp3 file, it 
gives the usual save to disk options and the download prompt.  That's 
just my solution but I've been happy with it.  You'll want a local mail 
server, otherwise you could be sending hundreds of messages through a 
remote smtp server.  I'm currently pulling about 80 feeds and I get 
about 300 messages per day.  I created a special, private rss email 
address for the purpose.

Geoff Shang wrote:
> I must be one of the last people on Earth to dip my towe in both of 
> these particular ponds, but I am finally doing it and would like 
> suggestions of software to use for reading RSS feeds and downloading 
> podcasts.  I've found Snownews for RSS feeds and plan on looking at it 
> (it sounds like the kind of thing I'm looking for).  Have not 
> investigated podcatching at all.

Re: RSS readers and podcatchers

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Hi,

For podcasts hpodder works fine.
Sébastien.