:date: 2011-10-31 10:03 .. index:: tech, linux, newsbeuter Newsbeuter ========== .. image:: /_images/images/gallery/2011/2011-placeholder/prog-screenshot-newsbeuter.png :align: center :scale: 50 It's seven in the morning. The daily routine starts. As part of it I'm usually reading the latest News I've subscribed to. Just some `RSS `__ stuff, because I can't stand the banners and Ad-Click  links everywhere. Not anymore. Therefore I feel comfortable using `Newsbeuter `__. The console is not your world? -> `click `__! It's basically doing everything I'm asking for: Fetching the latest articles, showing me only the stuff I haven't read yet, opening it smoothly in a GUI-browser of my choice and it's quick! I mean, really quick! Initially was OK until I took some time to read the documentation. Allowing more than one reload-thread really speeded things up. So checking of about 40 sources takes just about eight seconds. As always the config file is slowly growing, because every once in a while you get new ideas about what might be nice to have. Or you simply become aware of your own habits and you start looking for solutions to make things easier. There were just a few modifications I made in :file:`~/.newsbeuter/config` so far: .. code:: # Open Tabs in my Browser in Background browser "opera -backgroundpage %u" # Automatic reload when starting auto-reload yes refresh-on-startup yes reload-time 23 reload-threads 4 # Reading process display display-article-progress yes # History Limit history-limit 10000 # Article save path save-path ~/.newsbeuter/saved_articles # Don't show feeds without updates show-read-feeds no BTW: If you want to add some Twitter time lines in your RSS feeds you need to address the Twitter API directly. Since twitter disabled the direct RSS export, this is the way to go: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name={USERNAME}