cychoi / feedthemonkey

Desktop client for the TinyTinyRSS feed reader.

Feed the Monkey

Feed the Monkey is a desktop client for TinyTinyRSS. That means that it doesn't work as a standalone feed reader but only as a client for the TinyTinyRSS API which it uses to get the normalized feeds and to synchronize the "article read" marks.

It is written in PyQt and uses WebKit to show the contents.

You need to have PyQt installed and a account on a TinyTinyRSS server.

License: BSD

Installation

Download the ZIP-file, unzip it and then run:

On Linux you can just do (if you have PyQt already installed):
sudo python setup.py install

On Windows you need to install (those are links to the binary packages):

• Python x32 or Python x64
• PyQt x32 or PyQt x64

Then rename freethemonkey to freethemonkey.pyw and then you can run it by double-clicking.

Keyboard shortcuts

The keyboard shortcuts are inspired by other feed readers which are inspired by the text editor vi.

j or → show nex article
k or ← show previous article
n or Return open current article in the default browser
r reload articles
Ctrl Q quit
Ctrl + zoom in
Ctrl - zoom out
Ctrl 0 reset zoom

Trivia

I just hacked together this one within one day so it is not feature complete yet and has no real error handling.

Right now it only loads unread articles and shows them one after another. I might add a sidebar in the future, we will see.

Screenshot