RSS reader with command line interface.

Yes, it is. But RSS/Atom feeds is a truly open standard and a way to get what you want without filtering and censorship. Any social network tries to give users what they like, effectively hiding "not interesting" information. The key point is that social networks decide what is interesting, not users.

And, while dying, RSS/Atom feeds have no alternatives :-(

cd /path/to/rsscat/
./gradlew assemble

The above command create a JAR file in ./build/libs/ subdirectory. Now you can use java -jar for reading RSS feeds:

java -jar rsscat.jar https://static.fsf.org/fsforg/rss/news.xml

You can specify more than one RSS feed.

To load feeds in parallel threads use -p option. This option makes no sense until the network speed is very slow or too many feeds are specified. In fact it can even slow down the process if you are loading few feeds over fast network connection.

Use -help option for more information.

rsscat supports RSS 1/2 feeds.

Features:

• Hide channel description (-D)
• Read feed URLs from a file (-f)
• Load feeds in parallel (-p)

Bug fixes:

• Errors reading feeds through unstable network

Features:

• Hide empty feeds by default (use -e to show)
• -last-days option support
• RSS 1 support

Bug fixes:

• Error on non-printable chars in time values
• Escaped characters in item title are nor properly processed
• Empty channel description is printed as Optional[]
• Full resource attribute name for RSS 1 item
• Empty RSS 2 values are not properly processed