Elfeed
An extensible web feed reader for GNU Emacs supporting Atom, RSS and JSON Feed.
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About Elfeed
Elfeed is a feed reader that runs inside GNU Emacs. It fetches Atom, RSS and JSON Feed subscriptions, stores entries in a local database and presents them in a searchable list you work through with the keyboard.
Because it is written in Emacs Lisp, it can be extended and customised like the rest of Emacs. The project now lives under the emacs-elfeed organisation on GitHub and is released into the public domain under the Unlicense. It suits people who already spend their day in Emacs.
Strengths
- Runs inside Emacs with keyboard-driven navigation
- Supports Atom, RSS and JSON Feed
- Extensible in Emacs Lisp
- Public domain licence
Limitations
- Requires GNU Emacs
- Little appeal for people who do not use Emacs
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and released into the public domain under the Unlicense.
- License
- Unlicense
- Developer
- The Elfeed contributors
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Best suited for
- Emacs users who want to read feeds without leaving the editor
- Categories
- RSS readers
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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