What is Canto?

Canto is an Atom/RSS feed reader for the console that is meant to be quick, concise, and colorful. It's meant to allow you to crank through feeds like you've never cranked before by providing a minimal, yet information packed interface. No navigating menus. No dense blocks of unreadable white text. An interface with almost infinite customization and extensibility using the excellent Python programming language.

Features

• Atom/RSS compliant.
• Fully UTF-8 compliant.
• Supports OPML.
• Fully integrated with both text (elinks) and graphical (firefox) browsers.
• Built in reader, displaying story contents and providing access to all links therein.
• Cron/daemon based fetching program, so you're *always* up to date.
• Story state is persistent.
• Uses feedparser which can parse any feed on earth.
• Filters allow you to ignore items arbitrarily
• Easily scriptable with hooks.
• Ability to sort feeds arbitrarily
• Python, with a drawing core in very fast C.
• Extremely flexible theming, allowing the user to easily change everything about how Canto draws to the screen, from changing basic colors to writing entirely new rendering classes.