An RSS Reader to run in your server
Stephen Ostermiller’s RSS Reader is an RSS Reading software that runs on a webserver as a CGI script. If you go to this page here is what it the reader would look like. The design goals of the RSS reader according Ostermiller are the following:
- Run in a webserver as a CGI script
- XML configuration
- Multithreaded RSS download
- Cache each rss feed for a specified time period before downloading it again
- Display feeds in vertical columns
- Ability to mix feeds in the same column.
- Sort feeds by date if desired.
- Strip text out of feeds with regular expressions.
- Filter items out of feeds with regular expressions.
- Filter out JavaScript, links, images, and unwanted formatting from feeds
- Allow formatting, links, or images on a feed by feed basis
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The reader is a free software that can be be distributed, redistributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License or (at your option) any later version/
Ostermiller’s RSS Reader can be downloaded here.
It would seem that fortnightly or every two weeks or even less there seems to be a lot of RSS tools being released and/or rediscovered. In itself that is a form of information overload. I wonder when things will be less dynamic … I guess not because at least this way we get to see new and improved things. The goal to reach the ultimate RSS Reader.
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