What is an RSS Reader?

Would someone be willing to give me a brief explanation of what an RSS reader does and which one might be the best to use with Mountain Lion?
I have little knowledge of how they work and what they actually do, other than you can use a reader to subsribe to news feeds and blogs.
Thanks for any help!
Ehren

moonbaza wrote:
Is there a way to have a reader that is just active all the time so it just notifies me when on of my feeds posts new information?
Funny you should ask...
I recently released an RSS feed reader that is integrated with Mountain Lion's new notifications. Instead of checking some RSS reader all day, just sit back and wait for notifications. It is called "EtreFeed" and is available in the Mac App Store. You can download a free time-limited demo from: http://www.etresoft.com/etrefeed
I am going to be posting a significant update very soon.
Disclaimer: I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my link.

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For anyone who wishes, feel free to play around with this and give me your feedback.
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Next put the following source in a file and chmod 700 it. Now you can ./rss or maybe put it in ~/bin and add that to your path so you can run it like any other binary. But wait! Now before you run it, you will more than likely want to edit the config unless you want all of my feeds and just happen to have a /home/keller/downloads folder you want all the stuff put in. To edit the urls just follow the examples I left in. They are in the style ("Name Of Feed", "http:\\example.com\rss\url.xml") where the first entry starts with and additional open brace and then each end in a comma if it is not the last feed entry or a additional close brace if it is. If you don't have anything for the particular category, just use (). Now give it a run by appending the --no-download option. If you don't, it's going to take a while and will work on every feed entry.
To quote --help:
Usage: rss [Options]
This is a zero hassle RSS reader. It is designed to be source configured and
run without a care in the world. Cron it, script it, just plain run it...
Options:
-h, --help Show me this message.
--no-download Do not act on new entries.
(Simply mark as old.)
-q, --quiet Don't talk.
-v, --say-something The opposite of -q.
In terms of action, it will:
First: Append new links to a file called links.html in the downloads folder that you can view with your browser of choice. This is the fastest so you can read your feeds while you wait on the downloads.
Second: Download the attached image from Deviant Art
Third: Download every youtube video at a max of 720p (To speed up the download and conserve bandwidth)
Lastly: Download all of your podcasts
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#!/usr/bin/python
# Depends on:
# * coreutils
# * curl
# * python3
# * python-feedparser
# * youtube-dl
# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Configuration and URLs - - - - - - - - - - - - - #
be_quiet = False # True disables output (Good for cron)
download_dir = "/home/keller/downloads/"
history_file = "/home/keller/.rss_history"
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link_urls = (("Extra Ordinary", "http://www.exocomics.com/feed"),
("Doghouse Diaries", "http://feeds2.feedburner.com/thedoghousediaries/feed"),
("Cyanide & Happiness", "http://feeds.feedburner.com/Explosm"),
("XKCD", "http://xkcd.com/rss.xml"),
("Scandinavia And The World", "http://feeds.feedburner.com/satwcomic?format=xml"),
("Surviving The World", "http://survivingtheworld.net/feed.xml"),
("Something Of That Ilk", "http://somethingofthatilk.com/rss/index.php"),
("Invisible Bread", "http://feeds.feedburner.com/InvisibleBread"),
("Happle Tea", "http://www.happletea.com/feed/"),
("Dilbert", "http://feed.dilbert.com/dilbert/daily_strip"),
("What-If", "http://what-if.xkcd.com/feed.atom"),
("Networking Nerd", "http://networkingnerd.net/feed/"),
("Fry Guy's Blog", "http://www.fryguy.net/feed/"),
("Ethereal Mind", "http://feeds.feedburner.com/etherealmind?format=xml"),
("Packet Pushers", "http://feeds.feedburner.com/PacketPushersBlogsOnly"),
("Lone SysAdmin", "http://lonesysadmin.net/feed/"),
("Arch Linux News", "http://www.archlinux.org/feeds/news/"),
("Schneier on Security", "http://feeds.feedburner.com/schneier/excerpts"))
# Deviant Art RSS
deviant_art_urls = (("Isbjorg's Main Gallery", "http://backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=gallery%3Aisbjorg%2F9742889&type=deviation"))
# Youtube RSS - Youtube Username Only
youtube_users = (("Phillip DeFranco", "sxephil"),
("Freddie", "freddiew"),
("Freddie BTS", "freddiew2"),
("Corridor Digital", "corridordigital"),
("Corridor Digital BTS", "samandniko"),
("Jenna Marbles", "jennamarbles"),
("Source Fed", "sourcefed"),
("Minute Physics", "minutephysics"),
("VSauce", "vsauce"),
("Numberphile", "numberphile"),
("Veritasium", "1veritasium"),
("Sixty Symbols", "sixtysymbols"),
("Periodic Videos", "periodicvideos"))
# Podcasts - Audio/Video linked content download
podcast_urls = (("Security Now", "http://feeds.twit.tv/sn_video_large"),
("Ted Talks", "http://feeds.feedburner.com/tedtalks_video"),
("Scam School", "http://revision3.com/scamschool/feed/MP4-Large"),
("Hak 5", "http://feeds.feedburner.com/hak5hd?format=xml"),
("Film Riot", "http://revision3.com/filmriot/feed/MP4-hd30"),
("SANS News", "https://isc.sans.edu/dailypodcast.xml"),
("The Techie Geek", "http://feeds.feedburner.com/thetechiegeek/ogg?format=xml"))
# - - - - - - - - - - - - No need to modify below here - - - - - - - - - - - - #
from feedparser import parse
from os import system
from sys import argv
import pickle
# -- Argument Parse
no_download = False
if "--help" in argv or "-h" in argv:
print("""Usage: rss [Options]
This is a zero hassle RSS reader. It is designed to be source configured and
run without a care in the world. Cron it, script it, just plain run it...
Options:
-h, --help Show me this message.
--no-download Do not act on new entries.
(Simply mark as old.)
-q, --quiet Don't talk.
-v, --say-something The opposite of -q.
exit()
if "--no-download" in argv:
no_download = True
if "--quiet" in argv or "-q" in argv:
be_quiet = True
if "--say-something" in argv or "-v" in argv:
be_quiet = False
# -- Unpickle History
try:
history = pickle.load(open(history_file, "rb"))
except:
tmp = open(history_file, "w")
tmp.close()
history = {"podcast" : [], "deviant_art" : [], "youtube" : [], "link" : []}
current_links = [] # Holds all current links so we can prune ancient history
# -- Link
for url in link_urls:
if not be_quiet : print("Checking", url[0] + "...")
for entry in parse(url[1]).entries:
current_links.append(entry.link)
if entry.link not in history["link"]: # If is a new link
if not be_quiet : print(" * New Content Found!")
if no_download or system('echo "<a href=\"' + entry.link + '\">' + url[0] + ' : ' + entry.title + '</a><br />" >> ' + download_dir + 'links.html') == 0: # Append to file
history["link"].append(entry.link)
# -- Deviant Art
for url in deviant_art_urls:
if not be_quiet : print("Checking", url[0] + "...")
for entry in parse(url[1]).entries:
if entry.media_content[0]["url"][-4] == '.': # Check it's a file
current_links.append(entry.media_content[0]["url"])
if entry.media_content[0]["url"] not in history["deviant_art"]: # If is a new link
if not be_quiet : print(" * Downloading:", entry.media_content[0]["url"][entry.media_content[0]["url"].rfind('/') + 1:])
if no_download or system('curl -so "' + download_dir + entry.media_content[0]["url"][entry.media_content[0]["url"].rfind('/') + 1:] + '" "' + entry.media_content[0]["url"] + '"') == 0: # Download
history["deviant_art"].append(entry.media_content[0]["url"])
# -- Youtube
for url in youtube_users:
if not be_quiet : print("Checking", url[0] + "...")
for entry in parse("https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/" + url[1] + "/uploads").entries:
current_links.append(entry.link)
if entry.link not in history["youtube"]: # If is a new link
if no_download or system('youtube-dl --max-quality 22 -o "' + download_dir + '%(title)s.%(ext)s" "' + entry.link + '"' + ['', ' -q'][be_quiet]) == 0: # Download
history["youtube"].append(entry.link)
# -- Podcast
for url in podcast_urls:
if not be_quiet : print("Checking", url[0] + "...")
for entry in parse(url[1]).entries:
for link in entry.links:
if link.type[0:5] == "video" or link.type[0:5] == "audio": # If _IT_ describes itself as video or audio
current_links.append(link.href)
if link.href not in history["podcast"]: # If is a new link
if not be_quiet : print(" * Downloading:", link.href[link.href.rfind('/') + 1:])
if no_download or system('curl -#Lo "' + download_dir + link.href[link.href.rfind('/') + 1:] + '" "' + link.href + '"' + ['', ' -s'][be_quiet]) == 0: # Download
history["podcast"].append(link.href)
# -- History Dump
for key in history:
for link in history[key]:
if link not in current_links:
history[key].remove(link)
# -- Pickle History
pickle.dump(history, open(history_file, "wb"))
That's all folks. If you do give it a try, please give feed back even if it's just that the whole thing sucks. I'd love to know what feeds don't work, if there is anything you want added, or if you just think it's swell.
If there appears to be some interest I'll look at putting this in the AUR. Maybe with a mode for config files so that each user can have thier feeds all independantly checked with each run under cron. Though that'll take some work to get just right so I'm only doing so if people are sure they would like such a feature. So yeah, feel free to ask for the moon, I'll see what I can do in most cases.
Lastly, I am humbly sorry that I suck at documenting how exactly it works here. If you have any questions at all, please feel free to post away and I will do my best to answer them.

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http://www.michael-williams.com.au/
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