Seeking an RSS aggregator

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

I'm looking for an RSS aggregator with the following set of features. If anyone can recommend a specific package, please let me know.

(1) It should handle all the common versions of RSS (0.9x, 1.0, 2.0), including the ill-formed files commonly found on the web. Atom would be nice too.

(2) It should output to HTML for viewing in a web browser. Most RSS feeds I read contain embedded HTML with links to websites, so I want to read my feeds in Mozilla instead of some custom interface.

(3) Items from different channels should be aggregated and sorted by date. I don't want to read channel by channel; I want the newest items first, regardless where they come from.

(4) The package must be available for Solaris or GNU/Linux. Even better if it's Free Software or Open Source; I'll probably want to tweak the source code.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Tristan

 

[Mark Preston]

I'm looking for an RSS aggregator with the following set of features. If anyone can recommend a specific package, please let me know.

(1) It should handle all the common versions of RSS (0.9x, 1.0, 2.0), including the ill-formed files commonly found on the web. Atom would be nice too.

(2) It should output to HTML for viewing in a web browser. Most RSS feeds I read contain embedded HTML with links to websites, so I want to read my feeds in Mozilla instead of some custom interface.

(3) Items from different channels should be aggregated and sorted by date. I don't want to read channel by channel; I want the newest items first, regardless where they come from.

(4) The package must be available for Solaris or GNU/Linux. Even better if it's Free Software or Open Source; I'll probably want to tweak the source code.

Pop over to the Mozilla web page and take a look at the various plug-ins. They have a great RSS feed that does exactly what you want and just plugs right into the browser. You get a sidebar with the feed source at the top, all the items in the selected feed at the bottom (sorted, if you want them sorted) and selecting any of those pops up the linked page in the main browser window.

 

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

Pop over to the Mozilla web page and take a look at the various plug-ins. They have a great RSS feed that does exactly what you want and just plugs right into the browser. You get a sidebar with the feed source at the top, all the items in the selected feed at the bottom (sorted, if you want them sorted) and selecting any of those pops up the linked page in the main browser window.

Do you happen to remember the name of this plugin? There is one I've already tried, called NewsMonster <http://www.newsmonster.org/>, but it's so buggy as to be completely useless. I couldn't even get it to subscribe to an RSS feed.

Regards,
Tristan

 

[Abhinav (archive)]

Greetings.

I'm looking for an RSS aggregator with the following set of features. If anyone can recommend a specific package, please let me know.

(1) It should handle all the common versions of RSS (0.9x, 1.0, 2.0), including the ill-formed files commonly found on the web. Atom would be nice too.

(2) It should output to HTML for viewing in a web browser. Most RSS feeds I read contain embedded HTML with links to websites, so I want to read my feeds in Mozilla instead of some custom interface.

(3) Items from different channels should be aggregated and sorted by date. I don't want to read channel by channel; I want the newest items first, regardless where they come from.

(4) The package must be available for Solaris or GNU/Linux. Even better if it's Free Software or Open Source; I'll probably want to tweak the source code.

Have you tried rssOwl (sourceForge.net) or bloglines
(http://www.bloglines.com) ?

HTH

 

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

Have you tried rssOwl (sourceForge.net) or bloglines
(http://www.bloglines.com) ?

Bloglines is almost exactly what I am looking for, except that it does not support channel aggregation (#3 above) so far as I can tell, and it seems that I cannot install it locally (#4).

As for RSSOwl, sourceforge.net is currently having problems with its download server, so I can't obtain it. From browsing the documentation, it looks like it uses a GUI rather than a web browser as its primary interface, so I'm skeptical as to whether it will be of use.

Regards,
Tristan

 

[David Dorward]

I'm looking for an RSS aggregator with the following set of features.

(1) It should handle all the common versions of RSS
(2) It should output to HTML for viewing in a web browser. (3) I don't want to read channel by channel; I want the newest items first, (4) The package must be available for Solaris or GNU/Linux.

Sounds like Rawdog. <http://offog.org/code/rawdog.html>

 

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

Sounds like Rawdog. <http://offog.org/code/rawdog.html>

Absolutely perfect! Thanks!

Regards,
Tristan

 

[Wired Earp]

Do you happen to remember the name of this plugin? There is one I've already tried, called NewsMonster <http://www.newsmonster.org/>, but it's so buggy as to be completely useless. I couldn't even get it to subscribe to an RSS feed.

Mozilla Firefox RSS extensions listed at
<URL:http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/list.php/Firefox/news>.

Coming version of Firefox with native feed support, check <URL:http://blog.codefront.net/archives/2004/07/13/rss_feed_integration_in_ firefox.php>.

 

[Ying-Chieh Liao]

I'm looking for an RSS aggregator with the following set of features. If anyone can recommend a specific package, please let me know.

try feedonfeeds ?
http://minutillo.com/steve/feedonfeeds/

 

[Kala Neg]

Mozilla Firefox RSS extensions listed at
<URL:http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/list.php/Firefox/news>.

Coming version of Firefox with native feed support, check <URL:http://blog.codefront.net/archives/2004/07/13/rss_feed_integration_in_ firefox.php>.

I'm very happy with Forumzilla:

<http://forumzilla.mozdev.org/>

It's an extension for Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Mail for reading news and blog feeds (all flavors of RSS plus Atom). It should work with all OSes.

Kala