lazyfeed

A fast, modern, and simple RSS/Atom feed reader for the terminal written in Python.

Features

• Support for RSS/Atom feeds.
• Import from and export to OPML.
• Save posts for later.
• Mark posts as favorite.
• Vim-like keybindings.
• Custom themes.
• Quick configuration access.
• Easy-to-user CLI for managing feeds.
• Filtering (Coming soon).
• In-App view (Coming soon).
• Docker support (Coming soon).

lazyfeed is a personal project, and the features I will be working on are tailored to my own needs and preferences at the moment.

Motivation

I wanted a simple and fast way to follow RSS feeds directly in my terminal, without relying on services like Feedly or similar platforms. While existing tools like newsboat and nom are available and there are more mature, I wanted to create my own, and here it is.

Install

There are several ways to install lazyfeed:

Via pip

pip install lazyfeed

Via pipx

pipx install lazyfeed

Via uv

uv tool add lazyfeed

# Or

uvx lazyfeed

Usage

For a better experience, using a nerd font is recommended.

lazyfeed add https://dnlzrgz.com/rss # Add a feed.
lazyfeed add https://dnlzrgz.com/rss https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml # Add multiple feeds at once.
lazyfeed import feeds.opml # Import from an OPML file.
lazyfeed # Start the TUI

In addition to importing, you can also export all your feeds using the export command. Run lazyfeed export --help for more information.

Keybindings

General

• ?: Display/Close help message.
• q/esc: Quit.
• r: Refresh.

Navigation

• j/n: Move to next post.
• k/p: Move to previous post.
• gg/G: Jump to first/last post.
• gp/gn: Pending/New posts.
• ga: All posts.
• gl: Saved posts.
• gf: Posts marked as favorite.

Posts

• o/enter: Open link in browser and mark post as read.
• m: Mark post as read.
• s: Save post for later.
• f: Mark post as favorite.
• shift+a: Mark all posts as read.

Configuration

If you need to, you can customize some aspects of lazyfeed via the config.toml file located at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lazyfeed/config.toml. This file is generated the first time you run lazyfeed and looks something like this:

# Welcome! This is the configuration file for lazyfeed.

[app]
# If set to true, all posts will be marked as read when quitting the application.
auto_mark_as_read = false

# If set to true, items will be marked as read without asking for confirmation.
ask_before_marking_as_read = false

# If set to true, displays posts marked as read in the current session.
show_read = false

# Specifies by which attribute the posts will be sorted.
sort_by = "published_date" # "title", "read_status"

# Specifies the sorting order.
sort_order = "desc" # "descending", "asc", "ascending"

[client]
# Maximum times (in seconds) to wait for all request operations.
timeout = 300

# Timeout for establishing a connection.
connect_timeout = 10

[client.headers]
# This section defines the HTTP headers that will be sent with
# each request.
# User-Agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
# Accept = "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8"
# Accept-Language = "en-US,en;q=0.6"
# Accept-Encoding = "gzip,deflate,br,zstd"

To open the config.toml file, you can just run the following command:

lazyfeed config

Theming

You can customize the default theme of lazyfeed by modifying the theme settings in the config.toml file under the app section. The following theme is an adaptation of the catppuccin/frappe theme.

[app.theme]
# Used for borders and highlighted elements.
primary = "#dc8a78"

# Text color.
secondary = "#4c4f69"

# Background of the application and modals.
background = "#eff1f5"

# Background for the scrollbar.
surface = "#dce8e8"

# Used to indicate success messages.
success = "#40a02b"

# Used to indicate warning messages.
warning = "#fe640b"

# Used to indicate error messages.
error = "#d20f39"

Data storage

By default, lazyfeed uses a SQLite database file named lazyfeed.db, which is located in the configuration directory alongside the config.toml file. However, if you prefer, you can change the default database path to use a different database by setting the db_url option in the configuration file.

[app]
db_url = "sqlite:////path/to/your/folder/lazyfeed.db"

Dependencies

• click.
• Textual.
• aiohttp.
• feedparser.
• sqlalchemy.

Screenshots