Newsboat | MARBS

Newsboat is an RSS-reader.

A normal person asks: “What is an RSS reader?”

It’s a way to follow sites and social media updates without needing social media.

Documentation

man newsboat

Press super + shift + n or run newsboat in the terminal.

j/k – move up and down.
enter – enter feed or article.
q – return to previous screen or quit.
h/l – open feed or return (same as q and enter).
a – mark as read.
n – go to next unread.
A – mark all as read.
,, – open the main link of an article. (Usually opens in a browser, or if a video, will play the video in mpv.)
u/d – page up and down.
g/G – go to top or bottom of screen.

To follow a visible link, use the st binding alt + l, or to just copy it, alt + k.

~/.config/newsboat/urls – the file holding your RSS feeds. Add URLs here to make them appear in newsboat. Open itquickly by typing cfu in the terminal.
~/.config/newsboat/config – the general newsboat config. Type cfn in the terminal. You can set granulated coloring and effects here, as well as change key bindings.
~/.local/bin/linkhandler – the opener file used by newsboat for dealing with URLs with the ,, binding. This can be modified as needed. By default, it opens normal URLs in a browser, opens videos with mpv, downloads audio/podcast files and downloads and opens images with sxiv, etc.