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RSS reader for the terminal
nom
Feed me
nom
is a terminal based RRS feed reader using Glow styled markdown to improve the reading experience and a simple TUI using Bubbletea.
- Local sync and offline reading
- Backend connections (miniflux, freshrss supported)
- Vim style keybindings for navigation
- Plenty more features such as mark read/unread, filtering and feed naming
Install
See releases for binaries. E.g.
$ curl -L https://github.com/guyfedwards/nom/releases/download/v2.1.4/nom_2.1.4_darwin_amd64.tar.gz | tar -xzvf -
Usage
$ nom # start TUI
$ nom list -n 20 # list feed items in $PAGER, optionally show more
$ nom add <feed_url>
$ nom --feed <feed_url> # preview feed without adding to config
Config
Config lives by default in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nom/config.yml
or $HOME/Library/Application Support/nom/config.yml
on darwin.
You can customise the location of the config file with the --config-path
flag.
Feeds
Feeds are added to the config file and have a url and name.
feeds:
- url: https://dropbox.tech/feed
# name will be prefixed to all entries in the list
name: dropbox
- url: https://snyk.io/blog/feed
You can also add feeds with the add
command:
$ nom add <url>
Feeds are editable within nom
by pressing E
to open the config in your $EDITOR
or $NOMEDITOR
. After editing feeds, you will need to then refresh with r
.
Youtube feeds
To add youtube feeds you can go to a channel and run the following in the browser console to get the rss feed link:
console.log(`https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=${document.querySelector("link[rel='canonical']").href.split('/channel/').reverse()[0]}`)
Show read (default: false)
Show read items by default. (can be toggled with M)
showread: true
Auto read (default: false)
Automatically mark items as read on selection or navigation through items.
autoread: true
Theme
Theme allows some basic color overrides in the feed view and then setting a custom markdown render theme for the overall markdown view. theme.glamour
can be one of "dark", "dracula", "light", "pink", "ascii" or "notty". See here for previews and more info.
Colors can be hex or ASCII codes, they will be coerced depending on your terminal color settings.
theme:
glamour: dark
titleColor: "62"
selectedItemColor: "170"
filterColor: "#555555"
Backends
As well as adding feeds directly, you can pull in feeds from another source. You can add multiple backends and the feeds will all be added.
backends:
miniflux:
host: http://myminiflux.foo
api_key: jafksdljfladjfk
freshrss:
host: http://myfreshrss.bar
user: admin
password: muchstrong
Openers
By default links are opened in the browser, you can specify commands to open certain links based on a regex string.
regex
can be any valid golang regex string, it will be matched against the feed item link.
cmd
is run as a child command. The %s
denotes the position of the link in the command.
takeover
dictates if the command should takeover the tty from nom. E.g. for opening links in lynx or other TUI.
openers:
- regex: "youtube"
cmd: "mpv %s"
- regex: ".*"
cmd: "lynx %s"
takeover: true
Store
nom
uses sqlite as a store for feeds and metadata. It is stored next to the config in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nom/nom.db
. This can be backed up like any file and will store articles, read state etc. It can also be deleted to start from scratch redownloading all articles and no state.
Filtering
Within the nom
view, you can filter by title pressing the /
character. Filters can be applied easily. Here's some examples:
-
f:my_feed feed:my_second_feed
- matchesmy_feed
andmy_second_feed
-
feedname:"my feed - with spaces"
- matchesmy feed - with spaces
-
feed:'my feed, with single quotes!'
- matchesmy feed, with single quotes!
-
feed:my\ feed\ with\ escaped\ spaces!
- matchesmy feed with escaped spaces!
More filters to be added soon!
Building and Running via Docker
Build nom image
docker build -t nom .
This embeds the local docker-config.yml file into the container and will be used by default.
Running the nom via docker
docker run --rm -it nom
Use the -v
command line argument to mount a local config onto /app/docker-config.yml
as desired.
Dev setup
You can use the backends-compose.yml
to spin up a local instance of miniflux and freshrss if needed for development.
$ docker-compose -f backends-compose.yml up
Debug logging
You can enable logging to a file using the DEBUGNOM
env var. Passing any path will cause log
calls to write there e.g. DEBUGNOM=debug.log