omafeed, by GitHub user pch, is a native Rust RSS reader for Linux and Omarchy, Omarchy Central reports. It has three panes (library, article list, reading view), it’s built on GTK4, libadwaita and WebKitGTK, and it’s MIT licensed. The current release is 0.2.8.
- On Omarchy you install it with
omarchy pkg add omafeed, and after that it updates with the rest of the system. There are also Arch, .deb and .rpm packages for x86_64 and ARM. - It handles RSS, Atom and JSON Feed, nested folders, and OPML import and export that keeps your folder tree. You can filter by keyword or regex, and search tolerates typos.
- Keyboard first: J/K, Space for next unread, M, S, O.
- It picks up your Omarchy theme and updates live when you switch.
- An optional
omafeed-barplugin adds an unread dot to the bar.
The CLI is the part that caught my eye. Run it with no arguments and you get the app. Run feeds, articles, search, refresh and so on and it does the job and exits, with no display needed. Add --json and you get one line of JSON “for scripts and LLM agents.” The README even sketches a four-command daily digest.
The README also warns that “Feed content is written by strangers.” Anything that hands article text to a model should treat it as untrusted data and never as instructions.
My take
My news bots already live on RSS, so a local reader with a clean JSON CLI is right up my alley. That prompt-injection warning is exactly right, too. Every feed my bots read gets treated as data, never as orders.
God Bless, and Use the Source!
