Alternatives to sfeed
Suckless RSS and Atom parser that outputs plain text. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
sfeed
Suckless RSS and Atom parser that outputs plain text.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as sfeed.
Newsboat
Terminal RSS and Atom reader with heavy keyboard control.
Newsboat gives a full interactive terminal reader with query feeds, macros and back-end sync, instead of plain text output you assemble yourself.
Newsraft
Small terminal feed reader with section-based navigation.
Newsraft is a small, fast interactive terminal reader with section-based navigation, replacing a self-assembled plain text workflow with a ready interface.
nom
A terminal RSS feed reader with a simple TUI, Vim-style keys and Markdown-styled articles.
nom offers a terminal interface with Vim-style keys, Markdown-rendered articles and Miniflux or FreshRSS backends, though it is not open source unlike the ISC-licensed sfeed.
Elfeed
An extensible web feed reader for GNU Emacs supporting Atom, RSS and JSON Feed.
Elfeed reads Atom, RSS and JSON Feed inside GNU Emacs with keyboard navigation and Lisp extensibility, but requires Emacs rather than composing with plain Unix tools.
Also worth comparing
These listings name sfeed as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Bubo Reader
A minimalist static feed reader that builds your RSS, Atom and JSON feeds into one web page.
sfeed is a tiny ISC-licensed C parser that outputs plain text for Unix tools, so you assemble your own workflow instead of generating a web page with Node.js.
russ
A terminal RSS and Atom reader written in Rust with vim-style controls and offline storage.
sfeed is a small ISC-licensed C parser that outputs plain text, so you assemble your own reading workflow from Unix tools instead of using a reader interface.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
yarr
Read web feeds through a compact self-hostable application.
Miniflux
A deliberately minimal feed reader: one Go binary, a PostgreSQL database, and no options you do not need.
RSSHub
Generates RSS feeds for sites that do not publish one.
rss-bridge
Generate feeds for websites that do not publish them.
Kill the Newsletter!
A web tool that turns email newsletters into Atom feeds you can read in a feed reader.
