TheYoke

TheYoke is an ultra-simple, polite RSS aggregrator designed for use on the UNIX command line.

Features:

• Easy CLI execution.
• Written in PERL, so cross platform.
• Easy setup - single executable.
• Robust XML::RSS parser.
• Simple configuration file(s) - a list of URLs.
• Shows only the latest headlines.
• Polite to web servers - utilises "Last-modified" and "ETag" headers.
• Customizable output - title/description/url.
• Command line options to specify more or less feeds or filter by regex.
• Can be used to feed urls to wget or youtube-dl.
• Free to download and use.

1. Install the required perl modules (available from CPAN):
   • libwww-perl
   • HTML::Parser
   • URI
   • XML::RSS
   • Digest::MD5
   • Encode
2. Download the source below, renaming to "theyoke".
3. Make it executable: chmod 755 theyoke.
4. Run with ./theyoke to create the configuration files and directories.
5. Add your RSS feed URLs to "~/.theyoke/feeds".
6. Every subsequent execution will display new items in the list of feeds.