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Newsboat browser: rdrview or chawan

2025-04-14

Making news articles readable

Using Chawan (cha) for reading newsboat articles in the ghostty terminal works well, however there are some sites that are a mess and difficult to read correctly.

For these I use rdrview with a newsboat macro.

Install in Arch Linux
yay -S chawan-git rdrview

rdrview is a fork of Firefox's text view function in C. In order to use it in newsboat I added the following to ~/.newsboat/config:

browser "cha %u" macro o set browser "rdrview -T title,body -B cha %u" ; open-in-browser ; set browser "cha %u"

This enables me to use "o" to open the article in cha, or with ",o" to open the article via rdrview

It would be nice to have the images in rdrview, but I haven't figured out if that's possible yet.

example article in chawan

the same article in rdrview+chawan

 


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