The Daily Stallman

Read the news like Stallman would. No JavaScript required.

The Daily Stallman reads the stallman.org RSS news feed, downloads articles and merges them into a single HTML file.

Install

cargo install the-daily-stallman

Usage

To run the-daily-stallman and save the latest 10 articles to a file called tds.html in the current directory:

tds

Use the -o option to change where the HTML is written to:

tds -o ~/news.html

Use the -b option to write to a temporary file that is opened automatically in your browser:

tds -b firefox

By default, the 10 latest articles are downloaded. Today's articles can be downloaded with the --today flag:

tds --today

and yesterday's articles with the --yesterday flag:

tds --yesterday

The latest N articles can be downloaded with the --latest option:

tds --latest 20

TODO

• Enable full offline reading by downloading article images.
• Add feature to output epub/mobi instead of HTML for reading on e-readers.
• Table of contents.