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Newsbeuter

News aggregator for text terminals

Newsbeuter was a text-based news aggregator for Unix-like systems. It was originally written by Andreas Krennmair in 2007 and released under the MIT License. The program is aimed at power users and strives to be "the mutt of rss feed readers.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Jan 16, 2007Founded1

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Newsbeuter
Photo: Iketsi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

Newsbeuter was a text-based news aggregator for Unix-like systems. It was originally written by Andreas Krennmair in 2007 and released under the MIT License. The program is aimed at power users and strives to be "the mutt of rss feed readers." It supports the major feed formats including RSS and Atom and can import and export subscription lists in the OPML format. Newsbeuter (podbeuter) also supports podcasting and synchronization. As of 2017, the project is no longer maintained; the original developers advise users to switch to Newsboat, an actively maintained fork of Newsbeuter.2

Products and brands

Newsbeuter is entirely controlled by the keyboard, and its default keybindings resemble those of vi. The program supported synchronization with Google Reader since version 2.2, but this feature was removed when Google discontinued Google Reader. Support for alternatives such as The Old Reader and NewsBlur was introduced in version 2.8.

Configuration

Newsbeuter's appearance and keyboard shortcuts are configured with a single text file.

From Wikipedia’s article on Newsbeuter, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded by Newsboat1

Timeline

  1. Jan 16, 2007Founded Founded1

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