RSS Feed Reader

[Whisperwind]

A feature I'd love to see is an ability to read RSS feeds within RoundCube.

In the folderpane on the left, you could have the favicon of the website the feed originates from, followed by it's title. When clicked on, the messages pane would populate with each downloaded message, where you could then read them as you would an email.

Note, when I say "downloaded," I mean for RoundCube to save each feed message (file? db?) as it obtains it for future reading. Many RSS feeds only display the 10 (for sake of picking a number) most recent feed items, so if none of them are archived within RoundCube and you wanted to read one from a while back, you'd be out of luck.

If this feature were implemented, I could say goodbye to my current email method and switch to RoundCube fulltime.

[SKaero]

I think That thats a great idea! I should make a plug in for it.

[CarlosAraujo]

An RSS Feed Reader is fantastic.

Today i use an external Reader, and if integrate this functions will make the RoundCube better.

[hairlesshobo]

I apologize now because I hate to resurrect a VERY old thread, but I just wanted to let the above people, as well as everyone here, know that I am currently working on a feed reader plugin for Roundcube. I too agree that with a good feed reader, I would have no reason to use anything other than Roundcube.

A quick outline of the initial plugin plans:

• Feeds are stored in the database and are downloaded periodically by cron (or perhaps on using task scheduler on Windows, but that's untested)
• Per-user feed subscriptions
• Category support
• Rss and Atom feed support (gotta love SimplePie!)

I plan to have the first release out within a couple weeks. At the moment, the download portion of the plugin works as a scheduled cron job that runs every 5 minutes (just how I set it up on my system). I would likely have the entire plugin done by now since I've been working on it for a few weeks, but I am still getting a hang of the Roundcube plugin API, especially in regard to the XHTML functionality of it, so it's taking a little longer than I would like.

I would love to know if this is going to be useful to anyone else besides myself.

[Tirupatibooking]

Thats great !  Waiting for RSS Feeds Reader....

[SKaero]

It sounds good, maybe an additional feature to add at a later point would be Google reader synchronization.

[quidam]

I'd also like to see a RSS feed reader plugin for roundcube!

Ulrich

[hairlesshobo]

I am glad to here that there are a couple people interested in the feed reader for Roundcube. I have got it working about 85% right now. Some works still needs to be done, but should have the first release available any time now. Take a look at the attached screenshots and tell me what you think so far...


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[SKaero]

Its looking very good, I can't wait to see a beta.

[bilbo_b]

is there any progress with the RSS Plugin?

[Yoni]

You can also access your emails from RSS Feed readers with MyRoundcube rss_feeds plugin

Yours sounds interesting regardless 

[Salzi]

Has someone already thought about using an existing tt-rss (http://tt-rss.org/) installation and connect to it via the api (http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki/JsonApiReference) ?
I think that should be much easier than implementing everything again.