Show HN: Photon – RSS reader as light as a photon with terminal and sixel (opens in new tab)

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3 pointsmicroo84y ago2 comments

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Neat.

There are some RSS feeds with non-trivial html markup in them. How do you deal with them?

Where do you keep states, like downloaded items, current read pointers, etc?

I was trying to make a new kind of rss reader. I call it rss viewer (like a image viewer, video player). You just open up the current feed(s) and you can browse it. So no downloaded items, no feeds manipulation, no read/unread items.

The article view doesn't show the `item.content`, it parses the article url and extracts the header, image, content, which is formated in basic html and then translated to pretty terminal text.

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derekzhouzhen4y ago

Neat.

There are some RSS feeds with non-trivial html markup in them. How do you deal with them?

Where do you keep states, like downloaded items, current read pointers, etc?

microo8OP4y ago

The article view doesn't show the `item.content`, it parses the article url and extracts the header, image, content, which is formated in basic html and then translated to pretty terminal text.

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