curn: Customizable Utilitarian RSS Notifier - command line format

curn: Customizable Utilitarian RSS Notifier: "
Download
Source zip file, version 1.5.7 [PGP/GnuPG signature]
Binary jar, version 1.5.7 [PGP/GnuPG signature]
Javadocs zip file, version 1.5.7
The binary jar was built with a native FreeBSD 1.4.2 JDK, on a FreeBSD 4.10 system. It should work with any 1.4 or 1.5 JDK.
To obtain my PGP/GnuPG key, see these instructions.
WARNING: You must have version 1.1.5 (or better) of the clapper.org utility library, or this version of curn will not work!




Documentation
curn Home
Features
FAQ
User's Guide
Javadocs docs for the Java classes that comprise the curn utility
Change Log



Related Links
clapper.org Java Utility Library
What is RSS? An introduction more suited to programmers.
What is RSS? If you're not as technically minded.
RSS version 0.91 spec
RSS version 1.0 spec
RSS version 2.0 spec
Atom spec
The Rome RSS parser library
The Informa RSS parser library
rawdog, a Python-based RSS reader, is similar to curn, in spirit, features and invocation. I had no idea rawdog existed when I wrote curn.
Introduction
curn is an RSS reader. It scans a configured set of URLs, each one representing an RSS feed, and summarizes the results. By default, curn keeps track of individual items within each RSS feed, using an on-disk cache; when using the cache, it will suppress displaying information for items it has already processed (though that behavior can be disabled).
Unlike many RSS readers, curn "