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Newsboat

Terminal RSS and Atom feed reader for text consoles

RSS & News Readers ★ 3.9k stars Medium setup MIT

Newsboat is an RSS and Atom feed reader for the text console. It is highly configurable, supports podcasts via podboat, and can synchronize with services like Tiny Tiny RSS and Nextcloud News.

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Key features

  • Highly configurable TUI
  • Podcast support via podboat
  • Syncs with TT-RSS and others

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Active community (3.9k GitHub stars)
  • Written in C++
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 32 MB RAM

Is Newsboat secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Newsboat's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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