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Newsboat RSS URL file to FreshRSS format - converter

This is just a simple script written in bash due to me trying FreshRSS on Docker and wanted to import all my URLs from my already long list of URLs I was using in Newsboat but didn't want to copy all one by one as I would take me ages to do that.

What you need from FreshRSS

You have to export your URLs from FreshRSS to have the template where you are going to add the new links. Make sure to tick [x] "Export list of feeds".

The file will look something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<opml xmlns:frss="https://freshrss.org/opml" version="2.0">
  <head>
    <title>FreshRSS</title>
    <dateCreated>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:41:17 +0200</dateCreated>
  </head>
  <body>    
    <outline text="Uncategorized">
      <outline text="FreshRSS releases" type="rss" xmlUrl="https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/releases.atom" htmlUrl="https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/" description="FreshRSS releases @ GitHub"/>
    </outline>
    <outline text="Youtube">
      <outline text="Jeff Geerling" type="rss" xmlUrl="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCR-DXc1voovS8nhAvccRZhg" htmlUrl="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR-DXc1voovS8nhAvccRZhg" description=""/>    
    </outline>
  </body>
</opml>

"Uncategorized" is created by default and I have created a new category called "Youtube" and added Jeff Geerling's channel through the GUI.

The rest of the channels will go under that one.

Newsboat URLs file

On Newsboat you could have lines starting with "---" meaning they are just separators so you could list your feed in the terminal in a prettier way. Those lines will be ignored. URL lines starting with "#" will be ignored too as that would mean you had them disabled.

The way I have my Newsboat file looks like as follows:

-----------------
-----YOUTUBE-----
-----------------
# Jeff Geerling
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCR-DXc1voovS8nhAvccRZhg "~YOUTUBE: Jeff Geerling"
# Jeff Geerling - Geerling engineering
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCsd6hP-zzIkCpw8XGw7Osyw "~YOUTUBE: Geerling Engeneering"
# Commented out url
#https://www.google.com

First line in pairs will be the Channel Name and the second one the XML Url.

Usage

$ main.sh newsboat_url_file > output

Running my example Newsboat will create the following output which you can then copy and paste into your exported FreshRSS file feeds_date.opml.xml:

      <outline text="Jeff Geerling" type="rss" xmlUrl="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCR-DXc1voovS8nhAvccRZhg" htmlUrl="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR-DXc1voovS8nhAvccRZhg" description=""/>
      <outline text="Jeff Geerling - Geerling engineering" type="rss" xmlUrl="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCsd6hP-zzIkCpw8XGw7Osyw" htmlUrl="" description=""/>

Disclosure

I was assisted by OpenAI while creating this script to speed up the process.