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Akregator – RSS/Atom feed reader

Akregator is a news feed reader for KDE. It enables you to follow news sites, blogs and other RSS/Atom-enabled websites without the need to manually check for updates using a web browser.

It allows you to quickly browse through hundreds of thousands of internet feeds in a quick, efficient, and familiar way.

Akregator is part of the Kontact suite.

Features include:

  • Simple and intuitive.
  • Support for RSS and Atom feeds.
  • Aggregates feeds in a particular category into a single list.
  • Automatic or manual request of feeds.
  • Uses tabs to give access to internal reading of full stories
  • Archives feeds. For example, you can keep all article, limit archive to a defined number of articles, delete articles older than a specified number of days, or even disable archiving.
  • Customize individual feeds.
  • Incremental search feature.
  • Feed icons.
  • Embeds KHTML as an internal, tabbed web browser.
  • Three-paned view: List of feeds on the left, list of posts in the top right pane, and the post content in the bottom-right pane.
  • Feeds archive.
  • Custom update interval.
  • Option to load the full website when reading articles, and mark articles as read when they arrive.
  • Good integration with Konqueror, a free and open-source web browser and file manager, provides web access and file-viewer functionality for file systems.

Website: userbase.kde.org/Akregator
Support:
Developer: Stanislav Karchebny
License: GNU GPL v2

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