RSS Bandit is an open source

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aggregator based on the Microsoft .NET framework. It was originally released as a code sample in a series of articles the Extreme XML column written by Dare Obasanjo on

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in 2003. The code samples were developed into an open source project. It is currently hosted on

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and the primary contributors are Dare Obasanjo and Torsten Rendelmann.

Features

Interface

The three-pane user interface is modeled after desktop

email client An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email. A web application which provides message management, composition, and reception functio ...

s, with a

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showing the list of feeds. The application has a number of features inspired by email readers and other RSS readers including: * Search folders for reading all items that match a search term or just all unread items * Import and export subscription lists as an

OPML OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an XML format for outlines (defined as "a tree, where each node contains a set of named attributes with string values"). Originally developed by UserLand as a native file format for the outliner appl ...

file * Keyboard shortcuts for main functions * Ability to download

podcast A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosin ...

s * Automatic marking of items as read as they are scrolled past * Search in all feeds, across all updates from subscriptions * Current subscription lists and read/unread state of items in the application can be synchronized via a

FTP The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network. FTP is built on a client–server model architecture using separate control and data ...

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server, allowing use from multiple computers * Feeds can be read from a

Google Reader Google Reader was an RSS/Atom feed aggregator operated by Google. It was created in early 2005 by Google engineer Chris Wetherell and launched on October 7, 2005, through Google Labs. Google Reader grew in popularity to support a number of prog ...

account, allowing the user to subscribe or unsubscribe from feeds, mark items as read or star them in RSS Bandit and have these changes reflected in Google Reader * Feeds can be read from

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accounts, to read their news feed and comment on the status updates of their friends.

Reception

The application received 4 out 5 stars in a review on

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. It has also received 4 out of 5 stars in a review on

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* {{Aggregators News aggregator software Software using the BSD license

Features

Interface

Reception

See also

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