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Why Use an RSS Aggregator?
For anyone that reads a half dozen or more pages that have RSS feeds, an aggregator is a necessity. RSS aggregators are set up to periodically check for new items in the feeds you are subscibed to, often an hour or half hour. In other words, the news comes to you, rather than you having to go to the news. This saves a tremendous amount of time. Or conversely, you can read many more feeds in the same ammont of time. Many people read several hundred feeds. That just wouldn’t be feasible without an RSS aggregator. Additionally, you avoid all the non-new information on a web page, including the ads, menus, etc.
Abilon - displays headlines from RSS (Rich Site Summary) Channels in an easy to read format. It is small (364 kb), fast, and free. Adding new channels is as simple as right-clicking and entering the address of the feed
ActiveRefresh - combines the portions of information from different sources (regular web pages, RSS feeds, mailboxes, even YahooMail) and presents them in uniform, comfortable and adjustable way
Aggie - a news aggregator. A desktop application that downloads the latest news and displays it in a webpage. A native .Net application, meaning it runs on Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP
Aggreg8 - a Mozilla-based application. It is an RSS (RDF site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) feed aggregator and was built on the Mozilla framework or XPFE (Cross Platform Front End). Aggreg8 uses XUL (XML user interface language), Javascript, RDF (Resource Description Framework), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), XPConnect (Cross Platform Connection to Components) and XPCOM (Cross Platform Component Object Model)
AmphetaDesk - a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator. Mac, Windows, Linux
Awasu - a free Windows news-reader that runs in the background on your computer and monitors sites for you. When it sees that something new has appeared, it will let you know
Beaver - manages RSS feeds. It is in early stages of development so it is very feature incomplete. Windows. Requires .net framework
Blagg - an RSS aggregator designed for (yet useful beyond) the Blosxom weblog application
BlogExpress - a full-featured .NET application for content syndication (or also called a news aggregator). BlogExpress supports all RSS versions. It can read contents from any Weblogs (a.k.a., blog) and any Websites that provide XML files for content syndication (Generally, a file with .rss, .rdf, or .xml extension
Bloglines -a free service that makes it easy to keep up with your favorite blogs and newsfeeds. With Bloglines, you can subscribe to the RSS feeds of your favorite blogs, and Bloglines will monitor updates to those sites. You can read the latest entries easily within Bloglines. See my shared subscriptions at Bloglines
BottomFeeder -an RSS and OCS News reader/aggregator
Composite - a free RSS/RDF feed aggregator. It's a .NET desktop app. You will need to have the .NET runtime installed in order to run it
EffNews RSS Reader for Windows - a minimalist RSS reader for Windows. The reader is shipped as part of the effbot.exe application framework. The reader is based on the effnews toolkit, which is a freely available Python library that includes a tolerant RSS parser and an asynchronous HTTP client module
Fastbuzz News - A free web based aggregator to search and view the latest additions to your favorite online publications
Feed on Feeds - server side personal RSS aggregator. Requires a server running modern versions of PHP and MySQL
Feed-Me.Info - an online News Reader. One place to see all the latest information. With a blink of an eye, you will have all the information you want at your fingertips
FeedDemon - enables you to quickly explore the world of RSS from your desktop without having to visit hundreds of sites. Written by Nick Bradbury, creator of TopStyle and HomeSite, FeedDemon makes RSS as easy to access as your email
FeedExpress -a freeware and OpenSource RSS feed reader. It basically lets you subscribe to several RSS/RDF sources, known as Subscriptions in FeedExpress, in the same way that Outlook Express lets you subscribe to several news groups. It caches and indexes all the feeds for each RSS subscription, making it easy to overview all your feeds
FeedOwl - RSS and RDF Feed Reader
Feedreader - a freeware Windows application that reads and displays Internet newsfeeds aka RSS feeds based on XML
Feedroll - select a feed to create a javascript to run on your own site
Fetch - an Enterprise RSS client and server system. Windows
FM Radio (FMR) - a desktop application that enhances the Radio experience by integrating 3 applications: news aggregator, blog publishing tool, and web browser into a single, easy-to-use, unified experience
Friday - Java front-end for viewing news aggregation sites and site syndication feeds on mobile devices, like phones and PDAs. Friday supports the Syndic8 news aggregation site. In the near future, it will support others, such as Meerkat and NewsIsFree
The Furrygoat Experience - PocketFeed for Pocket PC RSS aggregator
fyuze -a "news aggregator," a program that automatically collects information so that you don't have to. Sign up for an account, tell fyuze what sites you read, and you'll be able to - at a glance - see what news is new, each time you log on
Genecast News Service -a server based news aggregator, that converts XML streams to Usenet News. Anyone can add a new newsfeed/newsgroup, if it does not already exist
Headline Viewer - a Windows application that lets you see news headlines from a configurable list of Headline Providers (news sources and weblogs)
HotSheet - a program that retrieves news headlines from multiple websites, displays them, and allows you to interact with them. HotSheet is written in Java 2. That means it will run on most any machine with a Java Virtual Machine that is capable of running Java 2 applications (e.g. Windows 9X/NT/2000, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux) can run it
HoverNews - a free standalone news grabbing application that is based off of the plug-in of the same name for HoverDesk. Windows
Infinite Penguins RSS viewer - The code consists of a single PHP source file for the frontend, and the Magpie RSS Library (versions 0.1, 0.3, 0.5 have been tested) for the backend
Info Aggregator - an RSS-to-IMAP service. It lets you receive and read RSS feeds in your favourite mail client. It delivers all the latest news and blog posts directly to your mailbox
InfoSnorkel - a Windows application that makes it easy to create customized, up-to-date, personal news pages that contain information from many different sources
intraVnews - an add-in for Microsoft Outlook that turns your favorite email application into an advanced RSS news reader and aggregator. Requires Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 or higher. Operating Systems: Microsoft© Windows© 98 SE or higher. Microsoft© Outlook© versions: 2002/XP (10.0), 2003 (11.0).
JavaScript RSS Viewer - provides a neat way to embed such RSS-boxes in any HTML document via a generated JavaScript tag
KlipFolio - a free information delivery and notification application that lets you view and manage Klip™ information services right on your desktop. Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP
LisFeeds - links to library weblogs with RSS feeds. Browser-based
JERSS - stands for "Jay Eckles' Rich Site Summary". Written in Java, and therefore will run on any platform. Instead of HTML, it generates Javascript that can be used by the web author to dynamically create custom HTML
Liferea - a simple FeedReader clone for Unix distributions with GNOME2. It is a news aggregator for RSS/RDF feeds which also supports CDF channels, Atom/Echo/PIE feeds and OCS or OPML directories
Manila - The News Aggregator feature for Manila allows server managers to offer a community aggregator for all of the sites on the server. The server manager chooses what feeds are available on the server, and the managing editor of each individual Manila site can choose what feeds are included on their site's aggregator page
Meerkat - a Web-based syndicated content reader. It is based on Rich Site Summary (RSS), an XML specification used for distributing news, product announcements, discussion threads, and other assorted content as channels
MulleNewz - a dockling which allows you to stay in touch with the world via the OSX dock. It is an easy to configure RSS reader which means that it can access a lot of popular sites that offer RSS content - at once
MyHeadlines - personalized syndicated content. As a user you may subscribe to many news/content sources from the MyHeadlines database. For each of your subscriptions this site will gather the latest headlines/stories/content from the source and present a consolidated view of all of your interests in one location. Requires MySQL v3.23.23 or better. PHP 4.0.4 or better
MyPod - not only merges the power and flexibility of web services with the portability of the iPod digital music player, but also allows you to store other important information i.e. RSS or RDF streams
myRadio aggregation framework - extends the Radio Userland aggregator from rss to any networked data (xml, html, soap, personalized services, etc), and any layout. It is exceedingly simple for developers to add functionality to the framework
MyWireService - Instead of going to all the different news sites and weblogs that you like to read daily (weekly or just occassionally) and hunting around to see what is new (if anything), MyWireService delivers the headlines and summaries to you in an easy to scan page. You'll always be up-to-date
Net Newz - version 0.5 is now ready for download. Many enhancements are included but most important, Net Newz now includes full multilanguage support - English & French by default and more will be added soon. Windows
NetNewsWire - an easy-to-use RSS Web news reader for Mac OS X
News Is Free - a powerful and flexible portal for browsing, indexing and publishing news headlines
NewsApp - a web-based RSS news aggregator which can periodically poll RSS feeds from various websites and integrate them for you on one page
NewsBox - a unique news page that offers access to multiple news sources in German and English. Each source is configurable and there is support for RSS / RDF news feeds and the Mozilla / Netscape Sidebar
Newscrollet - Freeware Java-based RSS viewer that can work on any Java-enabled platform (Win/Linux/Unix/Mac OS X). Features automatic scrolling of headlines in a minimized mode
NewsGator - a "news aggregator" that runs in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to subscribe to various syndicated news feeds (such as weblogs, news sites, etc.) and have news from these sites be delivered right into your Outlook folders. Requires Microsoft Outlook 2000 or later, and Windows 98 or later.
NewsMonster - offers a superior web experience and outstanding integration with existing websites and weblogs that support RSS. Even sites that don't support RSS can work with NewsMonster. runs on all machines running Mozilla 1.0, Netscape 7.0 or greater. (JavaScript must be enabled) Java 1.3 or greater and Java Web Start 1.2 or greater. OSX, Linux, or Windows
NewzCrawler - a web news reader & browser which provides access to the news content from different sources. Windows
nntp//rss -a Java-based bridge between RSS feeds and NNTP clients, enabling you to read your favorite RSS syndicated content within your existing NNTP newsreader. RSS feeds are represented as NNTP newsgroups, providing a simple, straightforward and familiar environment for news reading
Novobot - differs from other available headline viewers in its ability to process not only syndicated XML content, but almost any web site (HTML) that has headlines and links clearly defined in any of its parts. Windows
Oddpost -an award-winning web-based email application with an astounding news aggregator built right in
Pears - a three-pane newsfeed (RSS/RDF) aggregator. It has a clean, uncluttered interface, it's easy to use and works on Windows, Linux and possibly MacOSX. Should work on any computer where Python and wxPython can run
Peerkat - personal syndicated data aggregator living on your computer desktop. Requires Python
Pineapple - a web site news aggregator for Mac OS X
PocketFeed - an RSS/RDF news aggregator that runs on the Pocket PC 2002/2003 PDA's. Using OPML for it's blogroll, you can now take your news, blog entries, or any other type of syndicated data with you, sync it wirelessly or read it offline
PopHeadlines - allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds and have them delivered to you through your email client. PopHeadlines provides a POP3 server which fetches items from RSS feeds and passes them on as normal emails. This allows you to read RSS feeds in your favourite email client
Python Desktop Server
Radio UserLand - Every hour Radio's aggregator reads the "feeds" you're subscribed to, as few as a half-dozen, or as many as you like. Because Radio's aggregator is integrated with a powerful weblog tool, you can view it as a "content router." When you see an item that you want to amplify with your own comments, or pass on to others in your organization or interest group, with two clicks it can be on the home page of your weblog. For Windows and Macintosh
Raissa - an RSS headlines and news reader for the Newton MessagePad running NewtonOS 2.0 and higher. It should read RSS 0.91 and 1.0 sources
RDF-Ticker - a newsticker application which fetches news from RDF/RSS-feeds and displays them on a ticker-bar. These feeds are based on a special XML-format, which lets client applications show them in any convenient way for the end-user. The application runs as a ticker-bar in MS Windows®, which is by default always visible at the top of your desktop and takes only a small area of your desktop to display. Other applications don't cover it, so you always have the news displayed in the foreground
RSS Bandit - a free community based developed tool. Prerequisite is to have .NET 1.0 or 1.1 installed
RSS Feeds via JavaScript - makes use of a PHP script that parses the XML feed, and returns a JavaScript set of write commands that insert the information into your page. All you need to do is to insert a simple JavaScript line of code in the part of your page where you want the feed. The only other thing to tidy it up is to link or insert a sytle sheet to format the output.
RSS Viewer - a Java-based ticker application. It uses JAXP to parse RSS-sites (RDF site summary). It is easy to use and easy to configure. It has 2 different views: a browser-like view and a simple ticker-view
RSSConnect by PerfectXML.com - a C# .NET application that allows you to read RSS feeds . Requires MSXML 3.0 and .NET Framework 1.0 or 1.1
RssExplorer -an Internet Explorer toolbar that allows you easily find RSS feeds and subscribe to them using your favorite news aggregator/headline viewer
RSSOwl - a free RSS (0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0) newsreader written in Java programming language using SWT as fast graphic library. Features of RSSOwl include reading RSS or RDF newsfeeds in a comfortable tab folder, save newsfeeds in categories, export them to PDF / HTML or OPML, and view news in an internal browser
RssReader - free RSS reader is able to display any RSS news feeds (XML)(Windows)
SaTiMoz - an RSS reader for Mozilla using the latest technologies to browse, read and store feeds
SharpReader - a .NET 3-pane RSS Aggregator
Shortwire.com provides on-line, easy to use services that let you aggregate and read RSS feeds, place requests to be alerted about news in future RSS feeds, create, publish and host RSS feeds and web logs (blogs)
Shrook - (for the Mac)lets you view the RSS channels provided by an increasing number of websites. With Shrook, you can keep up to date with your favourite websites. Shrook keeps track of what items you've read, when the site was last updated, and most importantly, by automatically checking the channel, it lets you know when your favourite sites update
SlashDock - a simple Mac OS X Application that fetches and updates headlines for the lastest postings on slashdot-compatible sites and RSS-compatible sites (aka RDF) like BluesNews.com. Updates are obtained automatically, if new articles are available, the dock icon will flash with an image representing the article 'topic'. Selecting an article from the dock menu will take you directly to that article in your preferred web browser
The Seeker - using XML data feeds (RSS), web services, and advanced webpage parsing techniques, Seeker streamlines the most commonly sought-after information to your desktop
spaces - It shares many features with standard email/PIM software like Evolution or Outlook and provides other features, such as a built-in news aggregator (RSS reader), a personal webserver (to read your emails while away from your machine) and more
SQLData RSS Reader - browser-based tool for accessing news feeds in RSS formats. The tool allows you to browse available news services and read news summaries online
Straw -a desktop news aggregator for the GNOME environment. Its aim is to be a faster, easier and more accessible way to read news and blogs than the traditional browser
Syndigator - is an RSS reader/aggregator for Linux
Syndirella - a desktop information aggregator - a program which provides a comfortable environment for reading the information coming from multiple sources, or feeds
TALAggregator - is a free multi-user, web-based RSS Aggregator. It is written in Python, uses MySQL for storage, ModPython for dynamic web pages, and SimpleTAL for HTML templates
TheYoke -an ultra-simple, polite RSS aggregrator designed for use on the UNIX command line
TofuRSSBrowser - A small and simple RSS browser for OS X
Trillian Pro Plugin - implements RSS 0.9x news feeds and alerts
Wildgrape NewsDesk -a fast, convenient, and easy to use RSS headline reader for Windows. NewsDesk reads headlines from thousands of sources, including popular websites and weblogs. Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 (or .NET Framework 1.0 with Service Pack 2)
wTicker - this program is aggregating information from the internet and is displaying them as headlines. Headlines can be build by information coming from newsfeeds, email accounts, stocks, scraped websites, usenet and others
zFeeder - a PHP script used to display RSS content on your webpages. It can be used to display other's content on your site. (also known as aggregator). It parses RSS (or RDF or backend) files (xml files) and shows content formatted. It supports all versions of RSS (0.9, 0.9x, 1.0 and 2.0) and is template driven
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