writing an RSS reader in 80 lines of bash

Uh, this could actually just be done a lot simpler if you use xslt for the XML parsing with xsltproc. Then you can just pre-format the entire feed properly and use bash for what it's good at.

I had a script for this (from an IRC user), but it seems like I've lost the feed.xslt for the actual parsing, but I'll see if I can find it.

https://github.com/Foxboron/home/blob/master/.local/bin/rss

EDIT: A similar source for parsing RSS XML structures into plain text you can parse with bash. https://paste.xinu.at/c38U5a95qgWw/xslt

All derivative work from Earnestly that is doing some rss reader stuff here: https://github.com/Earnestly/webfeeds

You need to fix the embedded code, escaping < as <. Without it, the code presented doesn’t work in a few ways, leading me to think the code was more horrifying than it actually is. It’s still somewhat horrifying, but at least now it should mostly work (though it’s still pretty fragile), rather than seldom work.

I had a similar setup where the links I wanted to read in newsboat were stored in a text file. My "do_the_internet.sh" would then send those links to forlater.email so I would receive the content.

Then forlater.email went down for a week. Not having anything to read during that week, I managed to add http/html/rss support to Offpunk.

Never used newsboat again…

Anecdote: forlate.email founder is also the one who invited me on this site. So double thanks to him!

Given the recent FOSDEM talk, now it's time to port it to Amber and just transpile to bash, lol