5 Copyright @copyright{} 2022-2023 @email{stargrave@@stargrave.org, Sergey Matveev}
11 @command{feeder} is a free software newsfeeds aggregator.
12 I wrote it solely for my personal needs, so currently probably there is
13 some hard-code in the scripts.
15 My experience was heavily based on @url{https://newsboat.org/, Newsboat}
16 reader, that unfortunately was rewritten on Rust, so I had to use its
17 old version. I also saw
18 @url{https://codemadness.org/git/sfeed/file/README.html, sfeed} project,
19 that tries to reuse many already existing tools (like @command{curl}),
20 be @url{https://suckless.org/philosophy/, suckless} and Unix-friendly,
21 but failed somewhere during the try, and asked myself if it is really so
22 hard to make that kind of software. It was written in less than a day,
23 completely replacing Newsboat, with much higher performance and great
26 Its architecture is very simple:
29 @item @url{https://curl.se/, cURL} is used to download feed URLs.
30 @item @url{https://go.dev/, Go}-written @command{feed2mdir} utility
31 parses and converts feed's items to mail messages stored inside
32 @url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir, Maildir}.
33 @item Automatically generated @url{http://www.mutt.org/, Mutt} source
34 file contains convenient options and human-readable mailboxes list.
35 @item @url{https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/, GNU parallel} for
36 parallel invocation of download/parsing jobs.
37 @item @url{https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/, mu} utilities perform
38 indexing and searching among the messages. Of course it would be
39 trivial to use @url{https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/, recoll}
40 or @url{https://notmuchmail.org/, notmuch} instead, if you need that.
41 @item Bunch of optional @url{https://www.zsh.org/, Zsh} helper scripts.
44 But of course it has its price: original feed data, its Base64-encoded
45 copy in mailbox and another copy in @command{mu}'s Xapian database.
51 @include usage/index.texi