 All right, this little symbol right here is the most important symbol you probably see it all the time Maybe you don't even know what it is, but you should this is the symbol for RSS and what RSS is it's a it's a protocol It's it's a format that gives you the equivalent of a social media feed that is fully customizable that you could you can pull from People's random blogs you can pull from you know Twitter pages or github pages or Facebook pages you can pull from all this stuff and aggregate all the things you want to look at in one place and Basically uncensored It's not filtered by an algorithm You need a look into RSS people used to use them all the time back in the days and I feel like now it's even more necessary So we're gonna learn what RSS is in this video. So I'll go and show you how I consume product how I Actually look at I you know instead of opening up a browser and looking for you know at all the YouTube channels I like or checking my subscriptions. I don't subscribe to anything. I don't follow anyone I use instead of program called news boat now news boat of course in keeping with This channel of course it is a command line application So it looks something like this I'll go into it in a second, but just before you turn your turn your brain off if you're I don't know a Normal human and you don't like things on the command line Just know that RSS can be used in all these different formats here. For example is another RSS program. This is Lyphoria, I don't exactly know how they want to pronounce this but you can tell it's not mine because it has all this enormous stuff in it like BBC and XKCD But basically you can see what this is doing. It has all these different sites It looks to the RSS feeds in those sites and it gets new updates So it's a news feed without having You know an actual you know without going to these websites or being filtered by them or anything like that So anyway, that's just to show you that now there are a million applications for doing this I'm really gonna talk about the one I use but the principles are always the same. Okay, so I'm gonna I'm gonna turn off this one But so here's mine now you can see I have it organized in some loose sections now notice There are actually I use a bunch of different sites, you know, for example here I have you know like arch in Artix Linux Linux updates So let's say for example, you're running arch and you need to you really should subscribe to their RSS feed because oh Every once in a while they have something you have to manually change when you update because something got you know revised There's something like that. You can keep up with people's individual blogs See whatever they're talking about And now all any of this stuff I can click and I can go to the web page It's on a lot of blogs will just appear in the RSS feed reader. You can just read them from there Additionally, you can actually watch YouTube from the command line So for example, I have a lot of videos here and I think I have some tech videos here as well So all of these are like YouTube channels. So I have them set up So let's say I go in here and I want to watch this video Well, I have a particular binding I could either go in here But if I press my binding it will actually stream that video directly from YouTube without a browser It'll stream it to my computer here and it'll play at an MPV so I can watch that there I also have a binding for queuing up videos to download Actually, I'll bring up my little config file for a news boat news boat is the program that I that I even say that news boat is the RSS feed reader that I'm using but So you can go into the config and you can set different ways of how to deal with links I have this little script that queues and downloads videos or stuff like that So my internet is particularly slow as I'm sure a lot of you guys know So what I often do is if there is a series of videos I want to watch You know, I might go in here and I might press the queue video thing and it'll queue You know, it'll download this or download some other video or something like that Of course, I don't actually want to download these videos right now. So I'm gonna cancel them But anyway, that that's just the general And you can do like a lot of things with this. Let me actually go into it. So it used to be back in the day I should say basically every single site will just transparently show you your their RSS feed read, you know feed Like for example, if you go to my site, you see there's an RSS icon if you click on that You're gonna get this very confusing looking thing that's gonna format in a second a big egg See, I actually have a huge one. I've never deleted anything from my RSS feed. I probably should but This is what an RSS feed looks like raw and then when you give the link to this to your RSS feed reader It will then process this and it will say, okay, here's an entry Here's an entry here are the links from this entry and it'll format it in HTML or whatever So this are this is what my RSS feed looks like raw Although I do actually have we can actually go to what my blog looks like here And that's what it actually shows up as now in my case I actually have a wrapper script for my blog that generates like blog posts on my website and Simultaneously generates RSS feeds for them. For example, you can actually just click on my blog and it'll show All the stuff going on here You can click on the entries individually or I have them so you can view them in the RSS feed reader So that I either that works it now It used to be that everyone did RSS feeds more or less like I have them like you just click on the thing and they're there But now a lot of times you have to go looking for RSS feeds. So one example is let's say You know, let's say github. Okay, let's say I'm gonna go to my github here Let's say you're looking at some kind of software project and you want to get updates Notice that I actually have a couple of software projects here. I have CERC's LF I follow I like to there are a couple things I'm waiting on in these repositories so I want to see what's going on and Libxft still waiting still waiting for that pass to be merged But you know, if you click on a software project, let's say mutt wizard now you can I think you can get feeds for the issues and The comet or the commits as well. So if I go to the commits here Now the thing is you usually in most cases you have to go looking for an RSS feed So here I'm on the commits page. I'm gonna look at the page source. That's control you on brave And it's gonna bring up the source code for that and a lot of times you have to go looking for an XML file Okay, that's not it. That's not it, but you'll see that there is a little it says Adam plus XML that another I mean, so there are SS feeds and there are also Adam feeds both of them will work usually for your reader So if I take you can click on this This is actually a read feed that we can use as well So I'm gonna copy this and I'm gonna put it in my url's file Which is just a list of all the different things I subscribe to so if I renew my Newsboat here, you'll see that I'll not have this I can see what's at this feed Oh, and now I have all the updates to mutt wizard Okay, so now I can see what kind of recent stuff has been added So that's in general how it works now. Additionally, you can do things like Twitter And other sites like that. I think I have a couple here. Let's see. Yeah, so I have you know Let's say Twitter, of course does not it used to be that they just gave you RSS feeds Nowadays you have to go through other sites to do it. So this is the links. I have here is actually to a Rapper Is that the right word? I guess a proxy site for Twitter Twitter called knitter and knitter basically it's really it's actually a nice site because it just takes Twitter feeds takes all the JavaScript all the spyware and stuff and it puts them in a much cleaner site But also you can subscribe to they give you RSS feeds for this. So you can just it Automatically creates RSS feeds. You can subscribe to them. It's very nice. So knitter is a nice site for that Additionally, if you want a universal solution one example that people often want is Facebook pages Okay, so I actually have a couple Facebook pages in my RSS feed They're all like I don't want to say personal but they're like stores in my area So I won't show them to you because you'll know exactly where I live or at least more about But what you can do let's say have a public Facebook page you want to subscribe to well, there's this very nice software project project called RSS bridge and this actually doesn't just work for Facebook It works for everything actually list out all the things they have, you know wikipedia pirate Bay You know, they have Twitter too if you want to use this instead Google search You could even make a you know check Google search to see what new stuff is on a particular search So this is a software project you can actually just look, you know search for RSS bridge And it's gonna bring up a whole bunch of Instances of it's something you you host on your own server basically, but of course you can use someone else's if it's public So I think I clicked on one here and it looks something like this And if you want to put in like a Facebook page you can do it right here, you know So we can say Facebook and oh we want a main site. I didn't mean to click on that They give you a little form you can fill out. Let me go back here. So Facebook Show more and then you can give them You can either just put in the group you want and they will give you an RSS feed for that And you could subscribe to that if you need a username or no, no, this is subscribing to users I think there's a way to actually log into Facebook and stuff like that But I think if you're doing that you'll probably want to do it on your own instance, but this is just a really nice way To subscribe to different sites and of course, you know when I you know I never open my browser to see what's going on. I can just Open this and you know check blogs or something like that check YouTube channels And again any of this stuff I can just watch from my command line I just go in here click my binding for it and it'll come up So anyway, that's in general how RSS feeds work now again if you don't like the program I'm using because I don't know it's on the terminal and it's scary There are a million different programs to use to read RSS feeds It's just one of those things that like there are I mean if anything it's hard to make a decision I don't really have it. I mean everyone who uses I guess command line applications uses news boat pretty much for RSS There are actually other other ones. I should say nowadays But yeah, definitely check it out look for a program you like you could even use things like Thunderbird I think or Firefox maybe even has an RSS reader. They're everywhere. They've just been I mean you probably again You've probably seen this Icon like symbol a million times and you've maybe never known what it is I probably saw it for years before I knew what it is But yeah, it will definitely change your life if you use it properly. Okay, so that's it. See you guys next time