(Quick-note) RSS Feed Reader in Linux with Nextcloud News Integration

Diego Carrasco G. — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT

Researching for a Linux RSS Feed Reader (although, as after-thought, I don´t really know/ remember why I needed this if I use mainly my phone and tablet to read and the News Web-app in Nextcloud works really well), I started checking what was available.

My first thought was using Akregator, but it does not seem to have support to sync with Nextcloud News (as per this issue. There and some other places and there RSS Guard was mentioned as an alternative. The first screen in RSS Guard is a choice of provider

which looks good.

I added my credentials and Nextcloud URL in the next screen and clicked the button "Fetch articles for all feeds" to download the articles.

Everything just works. Kudos to Martin Rotter and his collaborators!

You can download it at https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard

On Linux, you can install it using Flatpak from Flathub.

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(Quick-note) RSS Feed Reader in Linux with Nextcloud News Integration