RSS¹ is a magic button that lets you get the latest stuff from the web.

• Any stuff on the web.
• Any place on the web.

My RSS feed has updates for:

• Youtube channels
• Blogs
• BBC news
• Wikipedia topics
• Software changes

You can add just about anything to an RSS feed. Sometimes sites have RSS icons which look like this:

When you see that, you can right-click and copy the link for your RSS reader, or just use NewsFlash, which figures out where the link is for you.

Using NewsFlash

Just click the '+' botton at the top left to add a new feed.

In this example, I've put the YouTube channel @JDraper into the feed, and NewsFlash figures out where the actual rss feed is.²

For YouTube feeds, you can click the book-reading symbol, and you'll see the video pop up.

Example Feeds

When you give NewsFlash a URL, it tries to find the actual RSS (or 'atom') feed somewhere inside that URL. This won't work with all RSS readers, just the good ones.

Examples of things that work:

• This wikipedia article turns into a feed of all changes, so you'll get notified of any developments.
• This Scottish History website does not show any 'RSS' icon, but like many websites, you can get the feed by just adding /feed/ to the address (or let NewsFlash find it).
• Maia's site has 10/10 shenanigans. Highly recommended reading.

Installing NewsFlash

Flatpak

On Ubuntu:

1sudo snap install newsflash

On Mint/ anything with flatpak:

1flatpak install flathub io.gitlab.news_flash.NewsFlash
2flatpak run io.gitlab.news_flash.NewsFlash

Windows & OSX

If you have an RSS reader for Windows or OSX, and you don't hate it, send me an email so I can recommend it here.