News feed in the terminal

[viking60]

To get news feeds in the terminal you can install newsbeuter
The next thing to do is to create the ~/.newsbeuter directory:

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mkdir .newsbeuter

Then we go in there and create the file urls:

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sudo nano ~/.newsbeuter/urls

and we enter one line in that file:

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http://bjoernvold.com/forum/feed.php

Well actually you can enter the url of any news feed that you follow in there, but this is the most important one.
But if you are dying to get the news from the Norwegian Mandriva forum you would add this line below the first line

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http://forum.mandriva.com/no/feed.php?mode=topics

Now you are ready to fire it up with the command

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newsbeuter

but in order to renew the news you have to refresh it by hitting "r" all the time so we want to autoload the updates.
Therefor we create the file ~/.newsbeuter/config

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sudo nano ~/.newsbeuter/config

and we put this single line in there:

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auto-reload yes

and save it.

Now you have the news directly at your fingertips in the terminal/konsole or whatever you call it. I find it practical in the Guake terminal
Nobody will remember newsbeuter so make an alias for news and you will always remember it.


It is quite feature rich and it is good for mobile phones. You navigate in the text with arrows. It is very useful when you work with SSH.