Open Source Linux RSS Software

iTorrent allows you to download BitTorrent podcasts from iTunes. It transforms BitTorrent podcasts so that you can update them just like any other podcast in iTunes.

Glean is a self-hosted RSS reader and personal knowledge management platform designed to help information-heavy users efficiently aggregate, browse, and organize content from feeds. It centralizes RSS/Atom subscriptions, offering clean reading views, tagging, and organization features such as folders and bookmarks, while giving users full control over their data by deploying on their own infrastructure. Glean also includes real-time background synchronization, enabling feeds to update at regular intervals without manual refresh, and it supports importing and exporting subscription lists for portability. With a modern responsive UI and optional admin dashboard, Glean balances readability with lightweight performance, making it suited for both individual readers and teams. Its knowledge management capabilities are augmented by features like smart filtering, “read later” queues, and future plans for AI-driven summaries and preference-based recommendations.

The RSS feed for websites missing it.

Upvote RSS is a flexible, open-source tool for generating customizable RSS feeds from discussion platforms such as Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, Lobste.rs, PieFed instances, and GitHub activity. It works as a web application (often deployed with PHP or via Docker) that lets users build feeds with rich options — including summaries, scores, comments, and filtering — to tailor what content flows into their feed reader. Upvote-RSS gives fine control over how posts are selected and presented, and supports environment configuration for features like caching or integration with external APIs to enrich the output. Users can preview generated feeds before copying the RSS URL for consumption in any RSS reader, and advanced options allow filtering by posts per day, inclusion of full content, summaries, and comment limits.

MagpieRSS is a simple, functional PHP inteface for parsing RSS 1.0 (and earlier versions). Built on PHP's XML (expat) parser, and with an integrated cache for storing the parsed RSS objects, Magpie is designed by simple, and 'PHP-like' to use.

Podcast Generator is an open source Content Management System written in PHP and specifically designed for podcast publishing. It provides the user with the tools to easily manage all of the aspects related to the publication of a podcast, from the upload of episodes to its submission to the iTunes store.

Newsagent is an RSS feed aggregator that offers a combination of flexibility and simplicity. Built on an established plugin architecture (OSGi), Newsagent provides a solid base for building custom RSS-enabled applications.

A full-featured Multi-User ToDo List manager supporting RSS feeds, custom categories, and more.

R3R is a small, fast, and portable reader for RSS, ESF, and Atom feeds.

Simple RSS is an easy to use Java library to read and write RSS feeds. Currently supports RSS 2.0 and iTunes compliant feeds.

XFeed is a CGI/Perl program designed to develop RSS Feeds-supported XML documents. XML-DOM oriented simple suggestion to create your own RSS Feeds.

rss2imap is a tool which gets RSS (RDF Site Summary) from web and delivers to the IMAP server as an e-mail message. it enables you to use IMAP supported MUA as a RSS reader, and to unify mail check and site update check with ONE client.

A simple console RSS aggregator that sends news items by email.

Search though multiple (configurable) information sources at once: results are presented side-by-side. Intended to support all information sources that implement OpenSearch, and more.

ARADO RSS Feed Reader is a URL Database for Websearch and RSS Feed Reading, which saves your added Bookmarks & RSS-Feeds and syncs newest URLs with your connected devices. Store and Search your all your URLs in ARADO. As framework c++ / Qt is used.

Agrumelaire : An RSS Aggregator with Bayesian Learning System. Produces an RSS feed from a set of existing feeds. Items are categorized according to the reader's interests. Resulting feed is accessible from any standard RSS client application.

GTK# RSS aggregator [newsreader]

RSS Reader base on rich internet applications of flex.

RSS2 feed generator for Asterisk PBX Voice Mail system. Generates iTunes compatible feed to download voice mail files on iPod.

A podcast aggregator written in Python using GTK. Users can subscibe to podcasts and download the latest episodes to their hard drive (iPod support is planned).

Automatically imports content items from various RSS feeds into your WordPress (2.0 or higher) site. Very configurable, easy to install, and fully automated -- it will keep your site updated with fresh content.

A content syndication system written with Python and Jekyll.

Web 2.0 framework developed in PHP5 that allows you to develop interoperable, standards-compliant, scalable web applications without having to worry about the complexities of the underlying architecture for the most common of functionality.

Graphical interface for the popular podcatching shell script bashpodder, for the Gnome desktop.

RSS reader that uses a Bayesian filter to sort items