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mckinley
twtxt.net
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What news aggregators do you all use? I am looking for one that has no integrated web engine and an easy way to open an entry in a Web browser or in mpv. I don't want to have to choose one or the other.
darch
neotxt.dk
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@mckinley see https://neotxt.dk/twt/cfovyhq where I list some that I been trying out.
will
twtxt.net
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@mckinley newsboat
prologic
twtxt.net
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I use yarnd itself along with a feeds service
prologic
twtxt.net
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I use yarnd itself along with a feeds service
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@mckinley @will I'm a Newsboat user myself for centuries and can totally recommend it.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@mckinley A custom script around feedparser, it turns feeds into mails. (mutt is my “information hub”, that’s also why twtxt ends up there.) It has a few bugs, I’m just too lazy to switch to sfeed, because it “mostly works”. 😅
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@mckinley A custom script around feedparser, it turns feeds into mails. (mutt is my “information hub”, that’s also why twtxt ends up there.) It has a few bugs, I’m just too lazy to switch to sfeed, because it “mostly works”. 😅
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@mckinley A custom script around feedparser, it turns feeds into mails. (mutt is my “information hub”, that’s also why twtxt ends up there.) It has a few bugs, I’m just too lazy to switch to sfeed, because it “mostly works”. 😅
mutefall
twtxt.net
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@mckinley i've had the most success with newsboat. does what i need.
will
twtxt.net
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My new theory of “how to make the internet better, for me personally” is an “offline first” strategy that IN THEORY rss should be perfect for. However about half my feeds don’t include their page content in the feed. Isn’t that a pain?
ullarah
txt.quisquiliae.com
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@will What ever do you mean? I think most RSS readers grab the content of most pages unless… SUBSCRIBE HERE TO SEE MORE. ONLY $3 A MONTH

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ionores
twtxt.net
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@mckinley Since a few weeks, I use petrolette.
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@will That is a problem indeed. Luckily, most of my feeds do include everything. Over the years the number of feeds without content decreased, because I either simply unsubscribed or wrote some wrapper scripts that pulled in the contents and merged it into a new feed I then subscribe to. The other kind of problem is image-centric feeds. Here I have to open the articles in the browser.
mckinley
twtxt.net
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Thank you all for the suggestions. I settled on Newsboat. You can set a macro to make mpv the browser, open the selected item in the browser, and change it back. It's a bit of a hack, but it works. In ~/.newsboat/config:

macro m set browser "mpv --no-terminal %u &" ; open-in-browser ; set browser "xdg-open %u" -- "Open in MPV"

It even appears in the help menu with a helpful description.

@movq @will @lyse I hope you gentlemen don't follow my RSS feed then. It has no content because I write it by hand. :)~
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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Good choice, @mckinley! :-) Yeah, I consider this a hack as well, but it is actually the official way to do so. Luckily, plans exist to make it more convenient and obvious by aggregating similar functions into one common new super operation. Together with a unification of key bindings and macros this would be even nicer. No need to press an additional , then. Anyways, Newsboat is already a pretty close to perfect software in my opinion. This reminds me, I should get after my long outstanding merge request (to an unrelated topic).