newsticker: Retrieving News
3 Retrieving News
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Newsticker downloads news periodically in the background. This is
triggered as soon as you start reading news (
Reading News).
Alternatively you may use the command ‘newsticker-start’
(‘newsticker-stop’) in order to start (stop) the periodic download of
news without opening the reader.
The following variables define which feeds are fetched and how this
is done.
‘newsticker-url-list-defaults’
You may select any number of feeds from this list of (sample) news
feeds.
‘newsticker-url-list’
All your personal news feeds are defined here. Each feed is
identified by its name and an URL. You may set the start-time and
the retrieval interval for each feed as well as the retrieval
command arguments in case that the default values do not fit a
certain feed.
‘newsticker-retrieval-method’
By default Newsticker uses Emacs’s built-in download capabilities
for fetching headlines. You may change this to use an external
tool like ‘wget’. In this case you need to set
‘newsticker-wget-name’ and possibly ‘newsticker-wget-arguments’.
‘newsticker-retrieval-interval’
The number of seconds between headline retrievals.
Info Catalog
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newsticker: Top
newsticker: Headline Management