Linux Feed Reader (commonly known as Liferea) is a news aggregator for online news feeds. It supports the major feed formats including RSS/RDF and Atom and can import and export subscription lists in OPML format.
Liferea is intended to be a fast, easy to use, and easy to install news aggregator for GTK+ that can be used with the GNOME desktop.
Liferea allows direct subscriptions from Firefox and Epiphany. Epiphany provides a standard plugin that allows adding subscription directly to Liferea.
Features include:
- Full Support for RSS & RFD, CDF, Atom/Echo/PIE 0.2.
- OPML and OCS support.
- Traditional three-pane interface.
- Collapsible groups for feeds.
- Filters to scrape websites or postprocess feeds.
- Enclosures (Podcasting). Play Podcasts in Liferea.
- Permanently save headlines in news bins.
- Match items using search folders.
- Bandwidth saving by supporting feed specified update intervals, HTTP compression and etags.
- Synchronizes with InoReader, Reedah, TheOldReader, and TinyTinyRSS.
- Read articles when offline.
- Plugin installer that allows easy discovery and installation of 3rd party plugins.
- Full screen support for videos.
- Support for Do-Not-Track.
- Optional AMP / HTML5 rich content fetching feature.
- Internationalization support.
Website: lzone.de/liferea
Support: Documentation, GitHub
Developer: Lars Windolf, Nathan J. Conrad, Arnold Noronha, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, Adrian Bunk, and many contributors.
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Liferea is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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