Terminal RSS Reader With Nom
I stumbled across nom today, which is a lightweight TUI application written in go that allows you to read RSS feeds in your terminal.
It seems that every few years I get so tired of the bullshit that I decide to get back into using terminal apps. Working in a terminal allows me to pretend that I live in one of those fallout vaults and keep a diary in the black and green terminal that you find next to the stimpacks and radroaches sometimes. I somehow always find my way back to regular applications for one reason or another, but for now I am going to enjoy the comfort and simplicity of the terminal while it lasts.
Of course, this comfort and simplicity comes at a price. Namely, it is uncomfortable and complicated.
Out of the gate I ran into issues. I am not sure if me and every blog I read is doing it wrong, or if this particular app has its schema messed up, but nom looks for content in an xml field called <encoded> and if it does not find it, then it will fall back and show you a link that you need to open in a browser. A lot of the blogs that I read do not use this field at all and instead put the content of the post in the <description> xml tag.
I patched nom to show me the link and the description instead and things seem to be working how I expect them to now. If you are running into a similar issue you can apply the patch below.
diff --git a/internal/commands/commands.go b/internal/commands/commands.go
index 54af59e..2b5dcaf 100644
--- a/internal/commands/commands.go
+++ b/internal/commands/commands.go
@@ -365,6 +365,8 @@ func glamouriseItem(item store.Item) (string, error) {
mdown += "\n"
mdown += item.PublishedAt.String()
mdown += "\n\n"
+ mdown += item.Link
+ mdown += "\n\n"
mdown += htmlToMd(item.Content)
out, err := glamour.Render(mdown, "dark")
diff --git a/internal/rss/rss.go b/internal/rss/rss.go
index 1628b27..87cf395 100644
--- a/internal/rss/rss.go
+++ b/internal/rss/rss.go
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ func feedToRSS(f config.Feed, feed *gofeed.Feed) RSS {
if it.Content == "" {
// If there's no content (as is the case for YouTube RSS items), fallback
// to the link.
- ni.Content = it.Link
+ ni.Content = it.Description
} else {
ni.Content = it.Content
}
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