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RSS Guard at a glance

What it is
A feed reader for RSS, ATOM and JSON feeds and web-based feed services, with a podcast player

Description

RSS Guard is a feed reader for RSS, ATOM and JSON feeds and many web-based feed services. It also includes a podcast player, a basic XMPP client and a Gemini protocol client. Its source code is published on GitHub.

It runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, OS/2 and macOS, and reads RSS, ATOM, JSON, iCalendar and Sitemap feeds. RSS Guard also works with many popular online services. RSS Guard is open source software made by Martin Rotter and licensed under the GNU GPLv3.

RSS Guard Features

  • Plays audio and video with a built-in mpv-based or ffmpeg-based media player
  • Native support for the Gemini protocol, to fetch and display feeds over Gemini connections
  • Basic support for XMPP PubSub, to fetch real-time ATOM entries
  • Fetches real-time messages from single-user or multi-user XMPP chats
  • Reads RSS, ATOM, JSON, iCalendar and Sitemap feeds