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News Aggregators	These news aggregator clients let you keep up with your favorite blogs and news sites using internet standards like RSS.

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A news aggregator is software which aggregates digital content from online newspapers, blogs, podcasts, and other resources to one location for easy viewing. Using one can be a great way to keep up with your favorite content.

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Aggregator clients

Akregator

Akregator is a news feed reader that is a part of the KDE project. It comes with a fast search, advanced archiving functionality, and an internal browser for easy news reading.

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NewsFlash

NewsFlash is an open-source, modern, and easy-to-use news feed reader for Linux. It can be used offline or with services like Inoreader or Nextcloud News. It has a search feature and a pre-defined list of sources that you can add directly.

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Feeder

Feeder is a modern RSS client for Android that has many features and works well with folders of RSS feeds.

It supports RSS, Atom, RDF, and JSON Feed.

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Miniflux

Miniflux is a web-based news aggregator that you can self-host.

It supports RSS, Atom, RDF, and JSON Feed.

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NetNewsWire

NetNewsWire is a free and open-source feed reader for macOS and iOS with a focus on a native design and feature set.

It supports conventional feed formats and includes built-in support for Reddit feeds.

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Newsboat

Newsboat is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. It's an actively maintained fork of Newsbeuter. It is very lightweight and ideal for use over Secure Shell.

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Criteria

Please note we are not affiliated with any of the projects we recommend. In addition to our standard criteria, we have developed a clear set of requirements to allow us to provide objective recommendations. We suggest you familiarize yourself with this list before choosing to use a project, and conduct your own research to ensure it's the right choice for you.

• Must be open-source software.
• Must operate locally, i.e. must not be a cloud service.

Social Media RSS Support

Some social media services also support RSS, although it's not often advertised.

Reddit

Reddit allows you to subscribe to Subreddits via RSS. Replace [SUBREDDIT] with the Subreddit you wish to subscribe to:

https://reddit.com/r/[SUBREDDIT]/new/.rss

YouTube

You can subscribe to YouTube channels without logging in and associating usage information with your Google account.

To subscribe to a YouTube channel with an RSS client, first look for its channel code. The channel code can be found in the expanded description (i.e., the "About" section) of the YouTube channel you wish to subscribe to: About → Share channel → Copy channel ID. Replace [CHANNEL ID] below:

https://youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[CHANNEL ID]