spiderss

spiderss is a plaintext RSS reader / crawler. Articles are stored as Markdown files on the filesystem.

Why?

Because plaintext is God.

How can I read the articles?

Use your favourite Markdown viewer, or just the console. spiderss integrates nice with the ranger filemanager to browse categories.

How does it work?

Edit the config.toml file to your liking and run the script. The script creates a folder structure the following way:

base_directory
| - category
    | - feedname
        | - new
        | - read
    | - another feedname
        | - new
        | - read
| - another category
    | - a third feedname
        | - new
        | - read
| - loved

Every feed gets a new and a read subfolder. Article files are stored in the new folder. Move them to the read folder if you're done reading them. You can do this easily e.g. by setting a keybinding in ranger.

A special folder, called loved, is created on startup in the base_directory. It is intended for articles, you want to keep. Articles inside are never deleted, even if they expire the max_age.