I've checked and all the feeds _I_ care about :-) are available in RSS now, so it would make sense to move to an RSS aggregator if it has the same features. I've looked around at some that are available, both in Python and not, and haven't found anything that had the feature set I want. One in Python would obviously be a huge benefit.
I'm not looking for anything all that fancy, but there are a combination of some seemingly basic features I just can't seem to find in other aggregators. They are:
- one-page display: It's awkward going back and forth between multiple feeds in a hierarchical format, and so it's much nicer if they're all presented on one page available for perusal.
- filtering news items: Preferably for filtering out as well as highlighting, and also being able to selectively pass on, say, the first item in an RSS feed, since some popular feeds use that slot as an advertisement.
- caching news items: I read news sporadically throughout the day, so one feature I really like is the ability to queue up new items over time, as distinguished by unique GUID. For example, if an RSS feed only provided one (unique) item at all in its feed and that was updated once a day, letting the system run for several days would collect them all, each stored uniquely and available.
- recent items: When you check for news, it only shows you the news items in each category that are new since you last caught up (catching up is the equivalent of a "mark all as read" feature). That way, new news accumulates, and it's only news you haven't seen before.
Somewhat surprisingly to me, I can't seem to find an aggregator that supports all these features (using Mozilla). Is it possible it's time for another Yet Another-type project?
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