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Introduction
============
pyferea is my solution to [this
email](http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/07/msg01362.html) that I posted
to the debian-users list in 2011. I was fed up with there being no sane RSS
reader in existance that could just render some RSS entries in a fast and
simple fashion.
Quick Start
===========
Create a feeds.yaml (you can copy feeds.yaml.example) and then run:
$ python pyferea.py
Naming
======
It is called pyferea (python feed reader) for now as I was inspired by the
layout of liferea (linux feed reader). I guess I'm just too lazy to come up
with another name but suggestions are welcome. Pyferea is just the first thing
that sprang to my mind when I had to give the sourcecode directory a name and I
didnt change it since.
Purpose
=======
I might really overlook something out there but everytime I checked there was
no sane RSS feed reader out there that would please me. I did not think that I
would require much. Just three panes for feeds, entries and content, keeping
record of unread entries and rendering content in a browser. Liferea came close
but was poisoned by feature bloat (as many others... especially gnome
dependencies) and major slowness. Pyferea does just what I want, is simple, DE
agnostic (uses python and gtk) and fits in about 1000 lines of code.
Bugs
====
Pyferea as it is now is enough for my daily use but there are still some issues
that need to be fixed: the back/forward functionality of the browser must be
fixed (i seldomly use it), the date/time in the entry panel doesnt update
correctly over time (i can live with it for now) and the text in the
addressbar, title and tabtitle must be synced. I will fix that once I feel like
it. If anybody feels inclined to do so, then patches are welcome.
Dependencies
============
feeds.yaml
==========
It is a yaml dictionary with rss/atom feeds as keys and subdictionaries as
values. For each entry they store the category a feed is in and if the link
given in a feed entry should be loaded instead of the feed text.
Example:
```yaml
http://planet.debian.org/rss20.xml:
category: "IT news"
loadlink: False
http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss:
category: "IT news"
loadlink: True
```
Cookies
=======
Cookies are kept in cookies.txt and are automatically accepted
ythtml5.js
==========
A javascript that I load upon each pageload to convert youtube videos into
their html5 versions so that the webkit plugin can render them even withoutme
having flash.

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#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Copyright (C) 2012 Johannes 'josch' Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#TODO
# gettext

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