Terminal/console usage?

[alexpdp7]

I have been moving some of what I do to the terminal. I would like to do my feed reading on my terminal- with my current self-hosted Miniflux instance.

Option 1: Use with a text browser

This doesn't work, because "mark this page as read" requires Javascript. Also, in w3m/elinks/lynx, each entry spans several 12 lines, because all fields of a feed (title, category, posted date, etc.) end up in a line each.

Perhaps an issue to make "mark this page as read" progressively enhanced? (i.e. by default it's a button that just performs the action; then inject the confirmation behavior via JS.)

Option 2: Use a terminal client

I have tried elfeed (I use Emacs) and newsboat, I had lots of issues getting them to run. Anyone using a terminal client for Miniflux that works for them?

Álex

[alexpdp7]

(Update: my issue with newsboat on Debian is that the version in stable does not have full support for Miniflux. I'm using nix-portable to run the Nix version and it works... although I'm having issues with non-ASCII text.)

[alexpdp7]

After a bout with Newsboat, then with Emacs' Elfeed... and not being pleased with any of the two, I've decided to write a small tool:

https://github.com/alexpdp7/termflux

It is in a very primitive state (you need to know Python to log in and to use the app), but:

• You can view unread entries as a list.
• You can view individual entries (I use a library to convert entries' HTML into Markdown, then I display the Markdown).
• You can mark entries as read in bulk until your cursor position.

This is my personal beta v1 which makes it somewhat useful to me. I'll add more features as I need them and have the time.