Feed me

nom is a terminal based RRS feed reader using Glow styled markdown to improve the reading experience and a simple TUI using Bubbletea.

• Local sync and offline reading
• Backend connections (miniflux, freshrss supported)
• Vim style keybindings for navigation
• Plenty more features such as mark read/unread, filtering and feed naming

See releases for binaries. E.g.

curl -L https://github.com/guyfedwards/nom/releases/download/v2.16.2/nom_2.16.2_darwin_amd64.tar.gz | tar -xzvf -

To install the nom binary into /usr/local/bin (or into the location of your choice) in a single step:

curl -L https://github.com/guyfedwards/nom/releases/download/v2.16.2/nom_2.16.2_darwin_amd64.tar.gz |
  sudo tar -C /usr/local/bin -xvzf - nom

nom # start TUI
nom add <feed_url> <optional feed_name>
nom -h # see all available command and options

Configuration lives by default in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nom/config.yml or $HOME/Library/Application Support/nom/config.yml on darwin. You can customise the location of the configuration file with the --config-path (-c) flag:

nom -c my-custom-config.yml

Feeds are listed in the feeds section of the configuration file. They have a URL, an option name, and an optional list of tags:

feeds:
- url: https://dropbox.tech/feed
  name: DropBox
- url: https://snyk.io/blog/feed
  name: Snyk
  tags:
    - ai
    - tech

You can also add feeds with the add command:

nom add [-n <feed name>] [-t tag [...]] <url>

Feeds are editable within nom by pressing E to open the configuration in your editor. You can configure which editor Nom will use by setting (in order of preference) your $NOMEDITOR, $VISUAL, or $EDITOR environment variable. After editing feeds, you will need to then refresh with r.

Alternatively you can import feeds from an OPML file:

nom import <path/to/opml|url/to/opm>

To add YouTube feeds you can go to a channel and run the following in the browser console to get the rss feed link:

console.log(
  `https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=${
    document.querySelector("link[rel='canonical']").href.split("/channel/")
      .reverse()[0]
  }`,
);

Show read items by default. (can be toggled with M)

showread: true

Automatically mark items as read on selection or navigation through items.

autoread: true

Set the default sort ordering of the list

ordering: asc

Default to include the feedname prefix in filtering query. Removes need to use f:xxx for simple queries. This will mean that multi-feed filters won't work, e.g. f:xxx f:yyy

filtering:
  defaultIncludeFeedName: true

Background refresh interval in minutes. Setting this to anything but 0 will make nom refresh automatically.

refreshinterval: 5

Theme allows some basic color overrides in the feed view and then setting a custom markdown render theme for the overall markdown view. theme.glamour can be one of "dark", "dracula", "light", "pink", "ascii" or "notty". See here for previews and more info. Colors can be hex or ASCII codes, they will be coerced depending on your terminal color settings.

theme:
  glamour: dark
  titleColor: "62"
  titleColorFg: "231"
  selectedItemColor: "170"
  filterColor: "#555555"

As well as adding feeds directly, you can pull in feeds from another source. You can add multiple backends and the feeds will all be added.

backends:
  miniflux:
    host: http://myminiflux.foo
    api_key: jafksdljfladjfk
  freshrss:
    host: http://myfreshrss.bar
    user: admin
    password: muchstrong
    prefixCats: true # prefix feed name for freshrss entries

To use freshrss you need to enable API access and set the API password explicitly, separate to your user password.

1. To enable the API go to Settings > Authentication > Allow API access.
2. You can set the API password in Settings > Profile > API password.

By default links are opened in the browser, you can specify commands to open certain links based on a regex string.
regex can be any valid golang regex string, it will be matched against the feed item link.
cmd is run as a child command. The %s denotes the position of the link in the command.
takeover dictates if the command should takeover the tty from nom. E.g. for opening links in lynx or other TUI.

openers:
- regex: "youtube"
  cmd: "mpv %s"
- regex: ".*"
  cmd: "lynx %s"
  takeover: true

If you need to use a proxy server for internet access, you can configure nom by setting the environment variables HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY to point to your proxy server:

export HTTP_PROXY=https://proxy.example.com
export HTTPS_PROXY=https://proxy.example.com
nom

From the ProxyFromEnvironment documentation:

[Use a proxy] as indicated by the environment variables HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY (or the lowercase versions thereof). Requests use the proxy from the environment variable matching their scheme, unless excluded by NO_PROXY.

The environment values may be either a complete URL or a "host[:port]", in which case the "http" scheme is assumed.

Nom uses sqlite as a store for feeds and metadata. It is stored adjacent to the configuration file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nom/nom.db. This can be backed up like any file and will store articles, read state etc. It can also be deleted to start from scratch, re-downloading all articles and no state.

The name of the sqlite file can be overridden in the configuration file, allowing you to have multiple configurations each with their own data store.

database: news.db

Within the nom view, you can filter by title pressing the / character. Nom supports simple keyword searches as well as searches using the feed: and tag: qualifiers.

• example will match any titles that contain the word example.
• If you have defaultIncludeFeedName: true in your nom configuration, this will also match any items whose feed name contains example.

You can limit results to feeds with a certain pattern in their name using the feed: qualifier:

• feed:example or f:example will match any titles from a feed that contains example in the feed name.

• If your feed name contains spaces, you can quote the name using single or double quotes:

  • feed:"example feed"
  • feed:'example feed'

  Or you can backslash-escape the spaces:

  • feed:example\ feed

You can limit results to feed that have certain tags using the tag: qualifier:

• tag:example or t:example will match titles from feed that has the tag example.

If you want to include the feed name in the default filtering query, use config.filtering.defaultIncludeFeedName: true. This simplifies the above f:xxx queries but means that you can't filter by multiple feeds at once, e.g. f:xxx f:yyy.

In the current implementation, you cannot combine different types of filters. That is, you can do this:

• feed:foo feed:bar
• tag:foo tag:bar

But you cannot combine feed: and tag: queries:

• feed:foo tag:news will return all results that match feed:foo and will ignore the tag: qualifier.

And you cannot combine simple keyword searches with any qualifiers:

• tag:news boston will return all results that match tag:news and will ignore the additional keyword.

Build nom image

docker build -t nom .

This embeds the local `docker-config.yml`` file into the container and will be used by default.

Running Nom via docker

docker run --rm -it nom

Use the -v command line argument to mount a local configuration onto /app/docker-config.yml as desired:

docker run --rm -it -v $PWD/my-nom-config.yml:/app/docker-config.yml nom

You can use backends-compose.yml to spin up a local instance of MiniFlux and FreshRSS if needed for development.

docker-compose -f backends-compose.yml up -d