News Aggregators
A news aggregator is a way to keep up with your favorite blogs and news sites.
Aggregator clients¶
Akregator¶
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Akregator is a news feed reader that is a part of the KDE project. It comes with a fast search, advanced archiving functionality and an internal browser for easy news reading.
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Feeder¶
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Feeder is a modern RSS client for Android that has many features and works well with folders of RSS feeds. It supports RSS, Atom, RDF and JSON Feed.
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Fluent Reader¶
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Fluent Reader is a secure cross-platform news aggregator that has useful privacy features such as deletion of cookies on exit, strict content security policies (CSP) and proxy support, meaning you can use it over Tor.
GNOME Feeds¶
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GNOME Feeds is an RSS and Atom news reader for GNOME. It has a simple interface and is quite fast.
Miniflux¶
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Miniflux is a web-based news aggregator that you can self-host. It supports RSS, Atom, RDF and JSON Feed.
NetNewsWire¶
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NetNewsWire a free and open-source feed reader for macOS and iOS with a focus on a native design and feature set. It supports the typical feed formats alongside built-in support for Twitter and Reddit feeds.
Newsboat¶
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Newsboat is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. It's an actively maintained fork of Newsbeuter. It is very lightweight, and ideal for use over Secure Shell.
Criteria¶
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- Must be open-source software.
- Must operate locally, i.e. must not be a cloud service.
Social Media RSS Support¶
Some social media services also support RSS although it's not often advertised.
Reddit¶
Reddit allows you to subscribe to subreddits via RSS.
Example
Replace subreddit_name with the subreddit you wish to subscribe to.
https://www.reddit.com/r/{{ subreddit_name }}/new/.rss
Twitter¶
Using any of the Nitter instances you can easily subscribe using RSS.
Example
- Pick an instance and set
nitter_instance. - Replace
twitter_accountwith the account name.
https://{{ nitter_instance }}/{{ twitter_account }}/rss
YouTube¶
You can subscribe YouTube channels without logging in and associating usage information with your Google Account.
Example
To subscribe to a YouTube channel with an RSS client, first look for your channel code, replace [CHANNEL ID] below:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[CHANNEL ID]