Akregator is a feed
reader (or aggregator) which can check on RSS-enabled
sites for the latest headlines or articles. RSS is
typically used on blogs and personal Web sites but also on major media sites
such as those from CNN, BBC and
Reuters. Choose + from the main menu to launch it.
Toolbar. Where the main action buttons lie.
News Channels. Shows a tree of all news feed channels with the channel names, the number of unread articles on the channel and the total number of articles.
Article List. Where the subject and date of articles for the currently selected news channel are displayed. Select an article to display it in the Article View Pane.
Article View Pane. Where the currently selected article's content is displayed. Some news feeds don't provide the article's contents but a link to them instead. Clicking on that link opens the article on a new tab inside Akregator.
Example 2.1. Add a New Feed
As an example, let's add a feed for the CNN World News
Feed. Right-click on the All Feeds
folder at the
top of Akregator's tree structure and select
from the pop-up menu. Type the
URL (
http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_world.rss
) in the
Feed URL field and accept your settings.
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Find the RSS Link |
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Look for the RSS icon on a web site, or an RSS link, then right click on it and choose Ctrl+V it into the URL field. . You then just need to paste ( |
Click on to fetch new articles for the currently selected feed.
Click on
to update all news feeds. By default, feeds are
updated every 30 minutes. Right-click on a given feed, then select
, put a check mark in the Use a custom
update interval option and select the desired update interval, as
shown in Figure 2.8, “Feed Properties”.