newsticker.el can display news items of news (RSS, Atom) feeds (such as the RSS of this wiki – see OtherRecentChanges!), allowing you to keep up-to-date with sites that update their content continuously – if and only if they provide a RSS or Atom feed.
From the package commentary:
newsticker.el first appeared in GNU Emacs version 22.
Recent versions of newsticker.el ( >= 1.99) offer a “treeview,” in which feeds can be gathered into arbitrary groups for more efficient reading. The treeview tiles three windows – one showing the feed hierarchy, another showing the list of articles in the selected feed, and a third showing the text of the selected article. Here is a screenshot of the new treeview.
There is a newsticker.el project on Savannah: Visit http://www.nongnu.org/newsticker/ for downloading the latest stable newsticker version. Note that development is taking place in Emacs CVS repository, the repository at savannah is not up to date.
Stable releases are posted to news:gnu.emacs.sources as well, see Groups:newsticker.el.
Under ntemacs-21.3 and running newsticker, emacs can become a CPU hog. For some reason, newsticker wget under windows does not quit properly when loading images from certain feeds. If this happens to you, try adding --timeout=30 to the newsticker-wget-arguments.
It does a (require ‘xml). Which XML package is required? – AlainMellan.
Any plans to include Atom (1.0 and optionally 0.3) support?
For me newsticker works much better than Gnus rss back-end, but I miss the feature to save interested posts via eg. nnimap back-end. Is it possible?
‘large-file-warning-threshold’ (or the next newsticker release;).Is it possible to import feeds from an OPML file? And where can I find documentation for newsticker, there’s none in the emacs manual as far as I can see, and the little documentation I’ve managed to find doesn’t, for example, tell me how to delete feeds.
‘newsticker-opml-import’! (If you encounter problems with nested opml files try the CVS version from savannah.) Newsticker comes with a very brief manual, separate from the Emacs manual (‘C-h i m newsticker RET’). For customizing newsticker click on the customize-button on the toolbar, or type ‘M-x customize-group RET newsticker RET’. – UlfJasperDoes anyone know why newsticker uses so many CPU cycles just to download and render rss feeds? My processor revs up to 100% capacity for a couple of minutes just to download and display 10 feeds. Gnus/nnrss maxes out at perhaps 10% CPU capacity for the same feeds, and fetches them twice as fast. And when I try to use an external program like wget to fetch feeds, the instructions newsticker sends it causes it to get stuck in a loop at 100% CPU. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. – MattLundin
newsticker-cache-filename and newsticker-groups-filename have been replaced with newsticker-dir. They have become obsolete in the latest newsticker version (in Emacs CVS). Newsticker will automatically convert your data: If these files are present newsticker will read them, store data in newsticker-dir, and offers to remove them. If this does not work, please tell me. UlfJasper I use emacs without X, in the terminal exclusively (Ubuntu emacs-nox package). It doesn’t have XPM support (obviously) and apparently newsticker chokes when it can’t load its XPM icons (“Invalid image type ‘xpm’”). This is kinda annoying since I can’t use emacs-gtk (no anti-aliasing support…) or emacs-snapshot (would solve the anti-aliasing problem I guess, but last time I tried emacs 23 apparently didn’t handle yet some other packages I use routinely). Could there be an alternative text-only version of the XPM icons like there is for tabbar-mode ? FabriceGabolde
Is there any way to sort the Newsticker Tree buffer?
~/.emacs.d/newsticker/groups (`newsticker-dir'/groups). UlfJasper Where can I find example ~/.emacs.d/newsticker/groups file? The format seems to be completely undocumented.
Is Newsticker not maintained anymore?
See Also: GnusRss