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newsboat ↗ (feed)

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Steps

0. Before you start

• Make sure Geist Mono Nerd Font is installed, you can do that from terminal with:

curl -L https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/latest/download/GeistMono.zip -o GeistMono.zip
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts
unzip GeistMono.zip -d ~/.local/share/fonts/GeistMono
fc-cache -fv

• Make sure newsboat is installed: sudo pacman -S newsboat
• See Installation Guide if you're coming from cybr-hyprland and haven't set up prerequisites yet
• newsboat Github | Arch wiki

1. Create config file

$EDITOR ~/.newsboat/config

2. Insert config.newsboat inside the config file

3. Create url file

$EDITOR ~/.newsboat/urls

# Paste this section inside:
"~./newsboat/feed"
"​├─  /tag"
https://url.com/feed "​├─  /tag"

"​├─  /tag/nested"
https://url.com/feed "‌│  ├──  /tag/nested"

4. How it works

Feed view:

• "~./newsboat/feed" - Decorative element, optional
• "​├─  /tag" - Essentialy an empty feed, serves as a separator of tagged feeds

Tag view:

• https://url.com/feed "​├─  /tag" - Tag contains tree elements so that in tag view (T key), the tree structure is achieved
• "​├─  /tag/nested" - Tags like "/tag/nested" are NOT real nesting - just visual workaround
• Tree characters inside tags are purely cosmetic and don't affect functionality