Holy Grail of RSS Readers?
August 12, 2006 4:10 AM Subscribe
Help me find my Holy Grail RSS Reader Application in Windows.
I really need a RSS reader that has some advanced functions. Basically what I need is a program to download my RSS/XML feeds, and then download the connected link locally for offline browsing.
My laptop comes with me and occassionally I'm without a WiFi signal. I'd like to have a collection of things to read already stored on my hard drive waiting for me.
It seems very strange that I haven't been able to find this feature (or haven't been able to figure out how to turn it on) in any of the Reader programs that I've tried.
Preferably there would be an archiving feature so that after X number of days, the old pages get deleted to save room for the new ones. Open source / Freeware would also be a plus. I'm not adverse to spending some money, if I find something that works exactly like I want it.
I've played a little with trying to modify feeds to exploit the enclosure tag, but no such luck. Help me hive mind!
I really need a RSS reader that has some advanced functions. Basically what I need is a program to download my RSS/XML feeds, and then download the connected link locally for offline browsing.
My laptop comes with me and occassionally I'm without a WiFi signal. I'd like to have a collection of things to read already stored on my hard drive waiting for me.
It seems very strange that I haven't been able to find this feature (or haven't been able to figure out how to turn it on) in any of the Reader programs that I've tried.
Preferably there would be an archiving feature so that after X number of days, the old pages get deleted to save room for the new ones. Open source / Freeware would also be a plus. I'm not adverse to spending some money, if I find something that works exactly like I want it.
I've played a little with trying to modify feeds to exploit the enclosure tag, but no such luck. Help me hive mind!
To be honest all I've used is Firefox -- with its built-in RSS listing feature. You add RSS feeds by clicking on the RSS icon (orange thing with the waves) or click 'manage bookmarks:add live bookmark' from the menu.
It's super quick.
It doesn't do 'ones you've already read' or anything fancy like that, but for very quickly browsing my 30-odd 'favourite' feeds, it's a dream.
posted by kiwi.es at 1:12 PM on August 12, 2006
It's super quick.
It doesn't do 'ones you've already read' or anything fancy like that, but for very quickly browsing my 30-odd 'favourite' feeds, it's a dream.
posted by kiwi.es at 1:12 PM on August 12, 2006
Response by poster: I think I'm going to end up writing a quick script to do this for me. The more I think about it, the more I think that a
Maybe even parse the RSS feed to point to the local file instead of the internet link. If anyone knows if such a tool exists, lemme know, otherwise I'll probably end up writing it.
I found that Pears doesn't specifically work on my machine at the moment, I'm playing with that. RSS Reader.NET's version of "offline browsing" is downloading RSS feeds onto your computer. *gasp* And Firefox's LiveBookmarks are awesome, but don't work too well when you're not on the Intarwebs, I'm afriad.
Thanks for the help all.
posted by gregschoen at 4:08 PM on August 12, 2006
<computer_geek>
wget feed | grep link > outfile && wget outfile
</computer_geek>Maybe even parse the RSS feed to point to the local file instead of the internet link. If anyone knows if such a tool exists, lemme know, otherwise I'll probably end up writing it.
I found that Pears doesn't specifically work on my machine at the moment, I'm playing with that. RSS Reader.NET's version of "offline browsing" is downloading RSS feeds onto your computer. *gasp* And Firefox's LiveBookmarks are awesome, but don't work too well when you're not on the Intarwebs, I'm afriad.
Thanks for the help all.
posted by gregschoen at 4:08 PM on August 12, 2006
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Pears is a multi-platform feed downloader.
And here's another which includes blogging tools (presumably for writing blog posts while offline).
posted by MarkLark at 7:14 AM on August 12, 2006 [1 favorite]