Newsbeuter is an open source command line feed reader for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other Unix-like operating systems. We already covered Newsbeuter a while back (including a video) but the greatest feature in Newsbeuter only came in the latest 2.2 version which was released last month: Google Reader support - meaning that your feeds will stay synced with Google Reader.
Newsbeuter already had Bloglines support among other great features.
Here are all the changes in Newsbeuter 2.2:
Newsbeuter already had Bloglines support among other great features.
Here are all the changes in Newsbeuter 2.2:
- Added Google Reader support.
- Implemented article highlighting in article list based on the article content
- Extended "ignore article" functionality with different ignore modes
- Added "hard quit" key to immediately quit from newsbeuter
- Added "download status" format specifier for feedlist-format
- Added HTML table renderer
- Added "open-in-browser-and-mark-read" key
- Many many fixes
Install Newsbeuter 2.2 in Ubuntu
Add the WebUpd8 PPA and install Newsbeuter:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install newsbeuterIf you're not using Ubuntu, you can download Newsbeuter source files from HERE.
The, to set up Google Reader integration with Newsbeuter, enter this in a terminal:
And paste this:
Where "your-googlereader-account" is your Google login email (youraddress@gmail.com) and "your-password" is your Google Reader password.
The, to set up Google Reader integration with Newsbeuter, enter this in a terminal:
gedit ~/.newsbeuter/configAnd paste this:
urls-source "googlereader"
googlereader-login "your-googlereader-account"
googlereader-password "your-password"Where "your-googlereader-account" is your Google login email (youraddress@gmail.com) and "your-password" is your Google Reader password.
[Special thanks to Fausto23 and Mostly CLI for mentioning the new Google Reader feature in Newsbeuter 2.2]
