I'm making a script similar to QuantumLink for my own purposes and I wished to make a news app that reads the RSS feed at feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml. I have scoured the internet and found a few readers written in bash but they are all either not working or not taking one url. I don't want a full program I just want to run the script and the feed with the titles and body appear. Is there any easy way to do this?
I think the best solution is a simple app. RSSTail is a very simple and little and ready-to-use program (to suck less).
But if you want more rss-feeds (to read, personal use) I think newsbeuter or snownews will be better (I'm using newsbeuter) - but they aren't usable in scripts, they are a full reader apps.
Update: the newsbeuter is abandon. Its successor is newsboat.