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<h1 align="center"> CAST-text </h1> <p align="center"> A zero latency, easy-to-use full-text rss terminal reader.</p> <div align="center"> <img width="640" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/25d765b8-51fc-4b58-8d10-db82d93265c1"/> </div>

Features

Read the full article content from the terminal
Easy to use: ←↓↑→ arrow keys (or hjkl) is all you need to use its main features. Up/Dow to browse through articles, Left/Right to scroll the article content.
Fast: it will prefetch adjacent articles - so every action is instant.
By default it will load the BBC, but you can change the source by passing -rss <your_rss_or_atom_feed>
One single UI for both article listing and article content.
If for some reason you need to open the article on a browser simply press ENTER.
q to quit, other optinal shortcuts put in ( ) on the title to jump directly to the article
Trackpad scrolling will list through articles (thanks to the great rivo/tview library)
UPCOMING: Perhaps support non-rss news outlets like CNN, etc.

Showcase

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/90f3fe3e-a555-42d2-b071-7cbab2cb3172

Default frontpage is BBC

Installation

Homebrew

brew tap piqoni/cast-text
brew install cast-text

Binaries

Download binaries for your OS at release page, and chmod +x the file to allow execution.

Using GO INSTALL

If you use GO, you can install it directly:

go install github.com/piqoni/cast-text@latest

How to run it

If you want to read BBC just run the binary without any arguments. If you want to read something else pass its rss address to -rss parameter. For example to read http://lobste.rs start it by running:

cast-text -rss https://lobste.rs/rss

You can perhaps put an alias (export alias lobster=cast-text -rss https://lobste.rs/rss) so now you have a "lobster" reader shorthand: