RSS Compendium - RSS Readers - Linux/Unix
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This list will, of course, never be complete. If I'm missing anything please let me know.


aggrss - an rss aggregator which uses the lastRSS library to aggregate RSS feeds. Unix

AgileRss - desktop aggregator that is able to display any RSS, ATOM, and XML news feed. It also allows you to keep up-to-date with all your favourite sources of information that support the RSS protocol. Internet syndication and aggregation software, that runs on any java enabled operating system. Minimum hardware configuration is Intel Pentium II system with 128 MB of RAM and 100 MB free disk space. Sun Microsystems Java VM version 5.0 or later

AKM Feed Reader – powerful and easy to use PHP based news aggregator script. AKM Feed Reader allows you to setup an updating news portal which will keep your visitors coming back. AKM Feed Reader gives you ability to provide your users with an incredible amount of information from multiple RSS and ATOM feeds every single minute

aKregator - a news aggregator and feed reader for Linux/UNIX and the KDE desktop environment. It is meant to be fast, powerful, and easy to use

CaféRSS - a simple RSS aggregator that's quite easy to integrate into your pages. It supports RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92, and 2.0 feeds

ezUrls - a new PHP script that creates a website aggregating headlines from various RSS feeds. It works similar to popurls.com. The script requires no database. It has built-in support for caching features and AdSense. This lets you earn revenue by simply entering your AdSense ID. ezUrls costs $25

Feed on Feeds - server side personal RSS aggregator. Requires a server running modern versions of PHP and MySQL

FeedOnFeeds-Redux - a continuation of the popular, but stagnated FeedOnFeeds project. FoFRedux provides a simple, yet effective browser-based news aggregator

FIRST SAY - a syndicated content aggregator / portal that uses XML/RSS syndication feeds from Weblogs and mainstream content providers

getrss - RSS news aggregator in Ruby

K.R.S.S. - a Linux-based application that downloads Rich Site Summary feeds and displays them on your desktop, in HTML

Liferea - a simple FeedReader clone for Unix distributions with GNOME2. It is a news aggregator for RSS/RDF feeds which also supports CDF channels, Atom/Echo/PIE feeds and OCS or OPML directories

lilina - a simple but powerful news aggregator written in PHP. No database is needed, RSS/ATOM parsing is done by the excellent MagpieRSS library (it is included, no additional installation needed). It features feed auto-discovery and an easy-to-use interface

lylina - an RSS/Atom feed aggregator loosely based on it's predecessor, lilina. Although it features a similar interface, making it an easy upgrade and quite familiar to lilina users, it improves upon the formula with the addition of a much faster MySQL backend and a much more streamlined cron-based update system. It also adds optional multi-user support, allowing for each user to login and see a customized feed page, filled with the content of choice

PenguinTV - a Python-based RSS reader specifically designed for downloading and viewing podcasts and video blog entries

Plagger - A pluggable RSS/Atom feed aggregator written in Perl. Everything is implemented as a small plugin so you can mash them up to build a new application to handle RSS/Atom feeds

Raggle - a console RSS aggregator, written in Ruby. Features include customizable keybindings, basic HTML rendering, HTTP proxy support, OPML import/export, themes, support for various versions of RSS, Screen support, browser auto-detection, and more. Raggle has been tested under Linux and OpenBSD, and should work properly under other Unix variants as well

renko - a simple enclosure-aware RSS aggregator/downloader

Rnews - a server-side rss aggregator written in php with mysql

RSS Feed Monster - "with our product you can easily add rss news feeds from a number of different sources, to most all websites. If your server supports php and php includes you can use our reader script. Also it is very easy to edit, to fit with your site design. Now you can stop depending on those other sites offering free software to show feeds on your site, when their sites are down so are the feeds on your site. Our product resides on your server not someone else's and you can display any feeds you want"

RSS-Planet - a custom marker file generator for xplanet which uses RSS feeds from news websites to plot the current headlines on a world map. By default, Yahoo! News and CNN.com are supported, but other feeds that point to articles with easily-discoverable place names (such as the Washington Post) should work as well. Python 2.3 or above, xplanet 1.0 or above required

RSS2Exchange - allows you to publish your very own industry specific news pages directly into MS Exchange Public Folders. For Windows and Linux

RSStatic - takes information from the feeds you choose and generates static html pages for each item in the feed. This quickly turns a 10 page website into a much larger, more robust site complete with relevant content that continually grows. Requires PHP 4.3.10, and Apache 1.3.33

Snownews -a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports RSS 1.0 feeds that comply with the W3C RDF specification and also supports Radio Userland's RSS 0.91 and 2.0 versions. The program depends on ncurses for the user interface and uses libxml2 for XML parsing. ncurses must be at least version 5.0. It should work with any version of libxml2. Runs on Linux, *BSD, OS X (Darwin), Solaris and probably many more Unices

Straw - a feed reader aimed for users using the GNOME desktop. You subscribe to news, blogs, and podcast feeds and read the feeds in the comfort of your desktop, with or without online access

sux0r - a Bayesian filtering RSS aggregator. Users classify news under different categories, and after gathering enough data, the computer will be able to automatically pick out interesting news

Syndigator - is an RSS reader/aggregator for Linux

TALAggregator - is a free multi-user, web-based RSS Aggregator. It is written in Python, uses MySQL for storage, ModPython for dynamic web pages, and SimpleTAL for HTML templates

Temboz - an RSS aggregator. It is inspired by FeedOnFeeds (web-based personal aggregator), Google News (two column layout) and TiVo (thumbs up and down). Temboz is written in Python, and leverages Mark Pilgrim's Ultra-liberal feed parser, SQLite 2.x, Cheetah

TheYoke -an ultra-simple, polite RSS aggregrator designed for use on the UNIX command line

Tiny Tiny RSS - Server-side RSS feed aggregator written in PHP and heavily based on XmlHttpRequest and related technologies for user interface and operation

TV RSS - Gtk2-Perl Torrent RSS feed reader for linux

ZebraFeeds - a web-based news (RSS/ATOM) aggregator, based on zFeeder 1.6. Uses only flat-text-files, and works without SQL database. Requires PHP >= 4.2.0

zFeeder - a PHP script used to display RSS content on your webpages. It can be used to display other's content on your site. (also known as aggregator). It parses RSS (or RDF or backend) files (xml files) and shows content formatted. It supports all versions of RSS (0.9, 0.9x, 1.0 and 2.0) and is template driven

Zort - a web-based RSS aggregator, based on MagpieRSS. Requires: A webserver (currently only tested on Apache 1), PHP (currently only tested on PHP 4.3.10), a web browser (currently only tested against Mozilla)

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