Newsboat - Mehrere Instanzen parallel starten

Es lassen sich mit einem kleinen Kniff mehrere Newsboat-Instanzen parallel starten und gleichzeitig nutzen. Anstatt einer einzigen großen Datenbank für alle Newsboate zu verwenden, wird für jede eine eigene Datenbank angelegt.

https://strobelstefan.de/blog/2026/04/28/newsboat_-_mehrere_instanzen_parallel_starten.html

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Tips for avoiding time-outs with Newsboat

First, apparently Newsboat always checks lines as they are placed in the file, so shuffling them helps not pinging feeds from a same domain all at once. Some programs have shuffle features built in, like Sublime Text with Edit > Permute lines > Shuffle, so no need to do it manually.

Second, if using auto-reload, remember to set reload-time too, else Newsboat will keep cycling updating the feeds without breaks.

Third, if using a repeating next-unread ; open-in-browser macro, try not making it too long. Macros don't have a throttle feature (actually Newsboat generally doesn't), so commands in the macro will run as soon as they can. And by consequence, the more a macro repeats, the more likely anti-bot features are to trigger.

Fourth, leveraging feeds slower to respond with one of the few throttling functions from Newsboat, download-timeout, can help lowering the aggressiveness of the reader too. When reloading the feeds, download-timeout 90 for example should make Newsboat wait 90 seconds for a response of a given feed before giving up and going to the next, giving some space for anti-bot features to cool down.

Fifth, keep an eye for redundant feeds that aren't needed. The less you ping a domain without need, the better.

Hope those tips help. =)

#rss #newsboat @rssfeeds

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#Miniflux server that a friend hosts, combined with #Newsboat on the terminal and #CapyReader on Android.

Oh, and the web interface itself is great. Very basic/brutalistic and fast.

In an attempt to use my smartphone a lot less, I am currently trying Newsboat's Podcast integration and a slim script I hacked together this morning. It automatically fetches podcast episodes, downloads and pushes them to the MP3-Player I bought a few months ago for taking to the gym.

It is of course a little bit more clunky than simply using Antennapod on my smartphone, but honestly, it is a quite smooth and pleasant experience nonetheless. Let's see how this goes for a few weeks.

#newsboat #podboat #rss #podcast

#Newsboat und #Wallabag - Mehrere Smart Cards und unterschiedliche Betriebssystem verwenden

Newsboat kann über die API Artikel direkt an Wallabag senden. Dort können die Beiträge bequem und übersichtlich verwaltet, mit Tags versehen und im Webbrowser oder der Wallabag-Apps auf allen Endgeräten gelesen werden.

In diesem Beitrag werden mehrere Clients und #Smartcards (#YubiKey und #Nitrokey) verwendet, um interessante Artikel an die zentrale Wallabag-Instanz senden.

https://strobelstefan.de/blog/2026/03/08/newsboat_und_wallabag_-_mehrere_smart_cards_und_unterschiedliche_betriebssystem_verwenden.html