Newsbeuter Cli Feed Reader Gains Google Reader Sync Support [Ubuntu PPA]

Newsbeuter is an open source command line feed reader for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other Unix-like operating systems. We already covered Newsbeuter a while back (including a video) but the greatest feature in Newsbeuter only came in the latest 2.2 version which was released last month: Google Reader support - meaning that your feeds will stay synced with Google Reader.

Newsbeuter already had Bloglines support among other great features.


Here are all the changes in Newsbeuter 2.2:

• Added Google Reader support.
• Implemented article highlighting in article list based on the article content
• Extended "ignore article" functionality with different ignore modes
  
• Added "hard quit" key to immediately quit from newsbeuter
• Added "download status" format specifier for feedlist-format
  
• Added HTML table renderer
  
• Added "open-in-browser-and-mark-read" key
• Many many fixes
  

Install Newsbeuter 2.2 in Ubuntu

You can either directly download the .deb files or add the WeBupd8 PPA for easy Newsbeuter 2.2 installation:

A.

Add the WebUpd8 PPA and install Newsbeuter 2.2 (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic and 10.04 Lucid only):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install newsbeuter

B.

Or you can just download the .deb files:

- Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala:

• 64bit: newsbeuter_2.2~webupd8~karmic1_amd64.deb (672.0 KiB)
• 32bit: newsbeuter_2.2~webupd8~karmic1_i386.deb (667.6 KiB)

- Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx:

• 64bit: newsbeuter_2.2~webupd8~lucid1_amd64.deb (666.5 KiB)
• 32bit: newsbeuter_2.2~webupd8~lucid1_i386.deb (661.1 KiB)

If you're not using Ubuntu, you can download Newsbeuter 2.2 source files from HERE.


The, to set up Google Reader integration with Newsbeuter, enter this in a terminal:

gedit ~/.newsbeuter/config

And paste this:

urls-source "googlereader"
googlereader-login "your-googlereader-account"
googlereader-password "your-password"

Where "your-googlereader-account" is your Google login email (youraddress@gmail.com) and "your-password" is your Google Reader password.

[Special thanks to Fausto23 and Mostly CLI for mentioning the new Google Reader feature in Newsbeuter 2.2]