russ - TUI RSS reader written in Rust

https://github.com/ckampfe/russ

Russ describes itself as a "TUI RSS reader with vim-like controls and a local-first, offline-first focus." Accurate and concise!

The two most interesting things about russ is that it refreshes feeds only on command (truly offline first) and that its backend uses SQLite. With SQLite as a backend you should be able to query the local database with other software if you want to extract or manipulate feed data.

It runs in a terminal, of course.

You could probably use something like september (an excellent Gemini-to-HTTP proxy written in Rust) to proxy Gemini sites to russ, but unless the site offers RSS then it won't be useful. I did a cursory search to see if there was a proxy that could generate RSS feeds from the common "gemfeed," but didn't find anything.

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Feb 21 · 3 months ago