RSS CLI

A beautiful terminal RSS feed reader powered by Textual.

Features

• Interactive TUI — Full terminal UI with keyboard navigation, not just text output
• Source-type Tabs — Filter articles by source: All, RSS, Reddit, Twitter/X, Bookmarks
• RSS Marketplace — Discover and subscribe to feeds by category or search (powered by Feedly)
• Full Article Fetch — Press f to fetch the full article content from the web when RSS feeds only provide snippets
• HTML → Markdown — Rich article rendering with proper headings, links, lists, code blocks, and more
• Article Pagination — Browse 25 articles at a time with "Load more" for large feeds
• Article Numbering — See your position: 1/62 shows article index and total count
• Read Tracking — Articles are marked as read automatically
• Bookmarks — Save articles with b and view them in the Bookmarks tab
• Search — Filter articles by keyword across title, description, author, and feed
• Feed Management — Add, remove, and browse RSS feeds interactively
• Reddit & Twitter/X — Built-in support for Reddit RSS and Nitter (Twitter/X) feeds with instance fallback
• Caching — Feeds are cached with configurable TTL (30 min default)
• Parallel Fetching — All feeds fetched concurrently with async httpx
• Browser Integration — Open articles in your default browser with o
• Theme Cycling — Switch between dark themes with t
• Refresh Notifications — See "Refreshing feeds…" and "✓ Refreshed X feeds · Y articles"

Install

pip install rss-cli

Or install from source:

git clone https://github.com/MohammedSaudAlsahli/rss-cli.git
cd rss-cli
uv sync

Usage

Interactive TUI (recommended)

rss

This launches the full terminal UI where you can:

CLI Commands

rss add <url>       # Add a feed
rss remove <url>    # Remove a feed
rss list            # List all feeds
rss refresh         # Fetch all feeds
rss read            # Launch the TUI
rss --version       # Show version

Source Tabs

The left panel has tabs to filter articles by source type:

• All — Every article from all feeds
• RSS — Standard RSS/Atom feeds
• Reddit — Reddit subreddit feeds (auto-detected from URL)
• Twitter — Nitter/Twitter feeds (auto-detected from URL)
• Bookmarks — Your saved articles

RSS Marketplace

Press m to open the marketplace where you can:

• Browse curated categories (Tech, Programming, AI, Science, etc.)
• Search for feeds by keyword
• See subscriber counts for each feed
• Press Enter to subscribe instantly

Full Article Fetch

When an RSS feed only provides a short snippet, press f in the article reader to:

1. Fetch the full web page
2. Extract the main article content using readability-lxml
3. Convert HTML to Markdown for beautiful terminal rendering
4. Cache the result for the session

Configuration

Config and data are stored in XDG-compliant directories:

• Config: ~/.config/rss-cli/
• Cache: ~/.cache/rss-cli/
• Data: ~/.local/share/rss-cli/

Custom Settings

Create ~/.config/rss-cli/config.toml:

[settings]
cache_ttl_seconds = 1800       # Cache duration (default: 30 min)
max_articles_per_feed = 200    # Max articles per feed

[twitter]
nitter_instances = [
    "nitter.net",
    "xcancel.com",
    "nitter.poast.org",
    "nitter.privacyredirect.com",
]

Adding Feeds

RSS feeds:

rss add https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

Reddit subreddits (auto-detected):

rss add https://www.reddit.com/r/python/.rss

Twitter/X via Nitter (auto-detected):

rss add https://nitter.net/elonmusk/rss

Recommended RSS Feeds

• Hacker News — Tech news
• BBC News — World news
• TechCrunch — Tech startup news
• The Verge — Technology and culture
• r/Python — Python community
• r/Programming — Programming discussion

Find more in the built-in marketplace (press m) or at rss.com/blog/popular-rss-feeds.

Development

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run tests
uv run pytest

# Run linter
uv run ruff check .

# Type check
uv run mypy rss_cli

# Run the app
uv run rss

Changelog

v0.3.0

• Source-type tabs — Filter articles by All, RSS, Reddit, Twitter, Bookmarks
• RSS Marketplace — Discover and subscribe to feeds by category or search
• Full article fetch — Press f to fetch full article content from the web
• HTML → Markdown — Rich rendering with headings, links, lists, code blocks
• Article pagination — Browse 25 articles at a time with "Load more"
• Article numbering — See position like 1/62 in the article list
• Refresh notifications — "Refreshing feeds…" → "✓ Refreshed X feeds · Y articles"
• DateTime fix — All datetimes are UTC-aware, preventing comparison errors
• max_articles_per_feed raised from 50 to 200

v0.2.0

• Reddit and Twitter/X feed support with Nitter fallback
• Async feed fetching with httpx
• OOP refactor — CSS, themes, utils, dialogs extracted

v0.1.0

• Initial release

License

MIT © Mohammed Alsahli