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https://codezen.org/canto-ng/

A console RSS reader.

For what it is, I like it. I don’t think I’ll either rely on RSS, or even the console, enough to use this.

• 2014-05-15 – 0.7.10 on Lubuntu 14.04
• 2009-08-13 – 0.7.2 on Unity Linux 0.99-alpha2

• 2009-04-20 – 0.6.10 on PCLinuxOS 2007

2014-05-15 – 0.7.10 ∞

• Don’t update feeds on startup.
• Needs to collapse all entries by default.
• Need to remove the blank lines between entries, when they are collapsed.

• Is there a way to impose a specific delay on updating feeds, or sets of feeds?

  • For example, when updating many feeds YouTube will silently fail at one point and all feeds past a certain point will show the following feeds as broken even when they exist and may or may not have updates. There is a hidden timer, past which a single update on any of those “broken” feeds will correctly reveal any update.
• The default link handler should be: link_handler( "x-www-browser \"%u\"" )

• Automatic discovery of RSS would be nice.

  • For example, Facebook RSS feeds is annoying. Liferea does a lot of this sort of stuff auto-magically.
• Is there a way to group feeds?

• canto -o outputs an OPML-compatible list of Canto’s RSS feeds. I’d like separate tags included, for any other information such as tags.

  • It’s possible to create a valid OPML file which has additional information.
  • I’d love to be able to export the additional format to then be able to hand-edit the file for import to another reader.

This is the output from Canto:

<outline text="spiralofhope" xmlUrl="http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/spiralofhope/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile" type="rss" />

This is the OPML from Liferea:

<outline title="Uploads by spiralofhope" text="Uploads by spiralofhope" description="Uploads by spiralofhope" type="rss" id="acpgfgl" sortColumn="time" sortReversed="false" viewMode="0" xmlUrl="http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/spiralofhope/uploads?alt=rss&amp;v=2&amp;orderby=published&amp;client=ytapi-youtube-profile" htmlUrl="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxJUvkYT98edJTda0ziGy9Q/videos" updateInterval="-1" collapsed="true"/>

2009-08-13 – 0.7.2 ∞

smart-root install libpython-devel libcursesw-devel
su
python setup.py install

install chardet.feedparser.org with python setup.py install

install www.feedparser.org with python setup.py install

canto runs, talks about some default feeds and then segfaults. Fail.

I did already delete my ~/.canto .. no change.

2009-04-20 – 0.6.10 ∞

apt-get install libpython2.5-devel libncursesw5-devel python-chardet

install feedparser

I installed feedparser-4.1

• The man page has an example, why isn’t that in ~/.canto/example.conf ?
• Oh! I was editing the config file and I wanted to clean up the nasty whitespacing. But it broke the config. Oh right, it’s Python. Shit.

• No complaints, it’s really wonderful.