DFSG, Licensing & New Packages Team

feeds. noss is a command-line program for aggregating and reading RSS/Atom feeds. noss can fetch feed updates, list posts, read posts from the command-line, open posts in a browser, and much more. noss works by storing feed and post information in a local database, and the user interacts with the database by supplying commands to noss. noss requires a feed list in order for it to function. A feed list is supplied to noss via a feeds file, a file that contains a list of feeds and any special configuration to use for those feeds. The format of this file is documented in the subequent "Feeds File" section of this manual. Once a list of feeds is supplied to noss through the feeds file, the feeds can then be fetched and loaded into its database via the "update" command. In order for noss to read posts, it must be able to uniquely identify and distinguish posts from each other. Posts in noss are identified via two pieces of information: the name of the feed they're in and their unique ID within that feed. When reading a post, like with either the "read" or "open" command, you would typically supply the command with the feed name and post ID to refer to that specific post.