Unifying the News: Nextcloud, Newsboat, and Linux. :: Gideon Wolfe

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In a previous post, I explained how to set up a Nextcloud server and integrate some crucial applications into your workflow. I briefly touched on the news application, which is a nice way of seeing some RSS feeds in your nextcloud. But much like email, I prefer using the terminal as my primary viewing method. I have found a great way to achieve this: an application called newsboat.

newsboat allows you to create a list of feed URLs, but I will be configuring it to pull from the feeds defined in my Nextcloud News app.

Install newsboat on Arch linux by running

sudo pacman -Syu newsboat

By default, newsboat is configured with files in the ~/.newsboat directory. However, I prefer the files to be in ~/.config/newsboat/, which will work just fine. Create the file config in the directory you choose. Here is my configuration file:

If you filled out this information correctly, you should be able to start newsboat and see your saved RSS feeds populate! note: you may need to manually create a file called urls in order for newsboat to start, even if it’s empty.

Press t to see tags. These are the equivalent of categories in the news app on Nextcloud, and are nice if you prefer browsing by category.

Some articles will let you read the entire thing in newsboat, but usually only the description is visible. Pressing O will open the story in your preferred browser if you want to read a full article.

Let me know if you have any configuration tips, I just recently found about this killer app combo!
https://gideonwolfe.com/posts/workflow/newsboat/