newsbeuter 2.3 - requires KTERM

[twobob]

http://www.newsbeuter.org/doc/newsbeuter.html

Spoiler:

[root@kindle root]# /mnt/us/extensions/newsbeuter/usr/bin/newsbeuter -v

newsbeuter 2.3 - http://www.newsbeuter.org/
Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Andreas Krennmair

newsbeuter is free software and licensed under the MIT/X Consortium License.
Type `/mnt/us/extensions/newsbeuter/usr/bin/newsbeuter -vv' for more information.

Compilation date/time: Oct 15 2013 04:12:58
System: Linux 2.6.31-rt11-lab126 (armv7l)
Compiler: g++ 4.4.5
ncurses: ncurses 5.7.20100313 (compiled with 5.7)
libcurl: libcurl/7.21.0 GnuTLS/2.8.6 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.15 (compiled with 7.21.0)
SQLite: 3.7.3 (compiled with 3.7.3)
libxml2: compiled with 2.7.8

EDIT: THIS IS THE OLDER VERSION IN DEBIAN (from source)

LOOK IN THE NEXT POST FOR THE LATEST BUILD FROM GIT

[twobob]

[root@kindle root]# HOME=/mnt/us/extensions/newsbeuter /mnt/us/extensions/newsbeuter/usr/bin/newsbeuter -v

newsbeuter 2.8 - http://www.newsbeuter.org/
Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Andreas Krennmair

newsbeuter is free software and licensed under the MIT/X Consortium License.
Type `/mnt/us/extensions/newsbeuter/usr/bin/newsbeuter -vv' for more information.

Compilation date/time: Oct 15 2013 05:00:23
System: Linux 2.6.31-rt11-lab126 (armv7l)
Compiler: g++ 4.6.3
ncurses: ncurses 5.9.20110404 (compiled with 5.9)
libcurl: libcurl/7.26.0 GnuTLS/2.12.20 zlib/1.2.7 libidn/1.25 libssh2/1.4.2 librtmp/2.3 (compiled with 7.26.0)
SQLite: 3.7.13 (compiled with 3.7.13)
libxml2: compiled with 2.8.0

[twobob]

meh, there, done.

Now... someone tell me what to do with this

EDIT http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/rss-with-newsbeuter/

[twobob]

How come 5 people downloaded the old one? and only one person downloaded the newest??? That's just crazy.

I deleted the old one.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by twobob

How come 5 people downloaded the old one? and only one person downloaded the newest??? That's just crazy.

I deleted the old one.

One thing I noticed in reading the blog about using it - -
The user needs 'EDITOR=' set in the kTerm environment.

It could be that only 1 of the first 5 people figured that one out.

You might mention that requirement (having 'EDITOR=' set to the editor intend to be used in the kTerm environment) if you intend to edit any of the entries.

Edit:
Another possible 'gotcha' if using nano for the editor on the Kindles -
Kindles are utf-8 devices -
nano depends on ncurses -
ncurses needs a special configuration / build to handle utf-8 (the utf-8 version is ncursesw).

The above information borrowed from the Buildroot mailing list (which is broken at the moment, but they will be fixing nano/ncurses(w) RSN).

[twobob]

all excellent points.

I will put together a bundle then.

with example feeds

[knc1]

Originally Posted by twobob

all excellent points.

I will put together a bundle then.

with example feeds

Just use a configure option to enable "wide character" support on all of them, and it should all 'just work'.

Hmm...
This might be a 'hidden problem' with some of the other add-ons that have been built, and no one has reported the problem.

[brianinmaine]

I'll give it a try when I have some time. I used to use Google Reader all the time and was very disappointed when they shut down. The python reader rawdog does work, just not really what I was looking for. Lets see how this goes.

Thanks for the effort!

[twobob]

spent much of the day attempting to get w3m to support images on the kindle.

[brianinmaine]

I'll give it a try when I have some time. I used to use Google Reader all the time and was very disappointed when they shut down. The python reader rawdog does work, just not really what I was looking for. Lets see how this goes.

Thanks for the effort!

[twobob]

still cant convince the w3m to show pictures in kterm (this is most likely a shortcoming of the terminal) also had no joy with a rebuilt xterm... (pictured) will keep digging around but joy factor is rapidly waning...

so.. looks like a no-images build is as good as people are gonna get without someone helping me out.

[Aeris]

mmh tried with some xml feeds but couldn't make it work

[twobob]

make a "urlfile" file containing the feeds like

(these first two are obviously DUMMY examples... put real ones)
echo "http://feed.url/thing.xml" >> /mnt/us/extensions/newsbeuter/feeds.txt
echo "http://feed2.url/thing.xml" >> /mnt/us/extensions/newsbeuter/feeds.txt
echo "http://lifehacker.com/vip.xml" >> /mnt/us/extensions/newsbeuter/feeds.txt

(or however you want to make the file...)

then call the app like

cd /mnt/us/extensions/newsbeuter; usr/bin/newsbeuter -u ./feeds.txt

(or full paths)
/mnt/us/extensions/newsbeuter/usr/bin/newsbeuter -u /mnt/us/extensions/newsbeuter/feeds.txt


press r in the app to reload the feeds.

press ENTER on one to load the feeds...



I got this from:

-u <urlfile> read RSS feed URLs from <urlfile>

section 3: First Steps
http://www.newsbeuter.org/doc/newsbeuter.html

That'll work.

[Aeris]

I did exactly this.. maybe i've tried not compatible feeds... I'll retry tomorrow!

[twobob]

pressing r to reload the feeds is a MUST DO thing...

you can setup preferences to do it by default and stuff.. but I tested it with that configuration last night/this morning and it worked okay