The old reader skill
Fetches news articles from The Old Reader service. Use this skill to log in to your The Old Reader account and retrieve news from your subscriptions.From its SKILL.md
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The Old Reader - RSS News Reader
This skill allows you to interact with The Old Reader API to fetch news articles from your subscriptions.
Core Tool
The primary tool for this skill is the the-old-reader-client.py Python script located in the scripts/ directory.
1. Login
Before you can use this skill, you need to log in to your The Old Reader account. This will store an authentication token on your local machine at ~/.the-old-reader-token.
Usage:
python scripts/the-old-reader-client.py login --email YOUR_EMAIL --password YOUR_PASSWORD
Replace YOUR_EMAIL and YOUR_PASSWORD with your The Old Reader credentials.
2. List Subscriptions
Once you are logged in, you can list your subscriptions. This will give you a list of all your feeds and their stream_ids, which you will need to fetch articles.
Usage:
python scripts/the-old-reader-client.py subscriptions
3. Fetch Items
After you have the stream_id for a subscription, you can fetch its items (articles).
Usage:
python scripts/the-old-reader-client.py items --stream-id STREAM_ID
Replace STREAM_ID with the id from the output of the subscriptions command (e.g., feed/1234567890abcdef).
You can also specify the number of items to fetch with the --limit flag and fetch only unread items with the --unread flag.
Example:
python scripts/the-old-reader-client.py items --stream-id feed/1234567890abcdef --limit 10 --unread
API Reference
For more details on The Old Reader API, refer to the API Reference.
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references/
- the-old-reader-api.md11.0 KB
scripts/
- the-old-reader-client.pyruns4.0 KB
- README.md2.3 KB