I’m frustrated with the RSS and atom readers available, and decided to write my own that does what I want, silly name and all.
Note that what I personally want may not at all be what you want.
Very few!
You define the feeds you want to follow in a YAML config file. This file should
be called evil-feed-reader.yaml
, and may be placed either in the directory
the executable is running in, or any of the directories listed in the
XDG directory specification.
It can also be given at program start with the -config
command-line option.
The format the program understands is:
feeds:
- url: feed URL
nickname: optional nickname for feed
prefix: optional prefix for feed link URLs
Every entry needs a url
value. Use nickname
to pick names for feed titles
you think are better than what its authors chose. Use prefix
if a feed only
provides relative links to its items and you know what to prefix them with to
make working links.
Evil feed reader keeps no state. We currently render feeds in the browser, which is perfectly capable of remembering what links we’ve already visited, and thus what items we’ve already read.
You need a Go compiler; any one should do. The project dependencies are
vendored with dep
. Compile and run the reader with:
$ git clone https://github.com/gunnihinn/evil-feed-reader.git
$ make # needs GNU make
$ ./evil-feed-reader
This will launch an HTTP server on localhost:8080
that renders the latest
items from the feeds you are interested in.
The program accepts these command-line options:
-port PORT Accept HTTP connections on this port. Default 8080.
-config FILE Feed config file to use. Defaults to XDG spec.
We import net/http/pprof
, so all of
its default endpoints are available. We recommend
go-torch
for reviewing the results.
See EvilWM.