TinyTinyRSS Tool

ttrss-tool makes it easy to view and manipulate the feeds your Tiny Tiny RSS account is subscribed to. It communicates with your tt-rss server using the tt-rss API.

ttrss-tool was developed by Jeremy W. Sherman and lives at jeremy-w/ttrss-tool.

ttrss-tool goes great with Newsbeuter. (It seemed a shame to have to hit the Web to edit your feedlist when using ttrss as the backend, and thus was ttrss-tool born.)

Usage

• ttrss-tool ls [-lR] [catpath] lists categories at / (default) or categories and feeds contained in the specified category.
• ttrss-tool ln feed_url [catpath] links a new feed into the specified category. If no category is specified, or / is specified, the feed is added to the default "Uncategorized" category.
• ttrss-tool mkdir title creates a new category. Due to API limitations, we can only create a top-level category.
• ttrss-tool rm feed_spec removes the specified feed. The feed can be specified by title using a catpath, by URL, or by numeric ID. (You can find the latter two bits of info using ls -l.)

Authentication

ttrss-tool requires three pieces of information to operate:

• The address of your ttrss instance, such as https://example.com/ttrss/.
• Your account name on that instance.
• Your password.

You can supply this info by creating a config file config in a ttrss-tool directory in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (which defaults to $HOME/.config).

The config file should look like:

{
  "addr": "https://example.com/ttrss/",
  "user": "alice",
  "pass": "keepoutmallory"
}

or

{
  "addr": "https://example.com/ttrss/",
  "user": "alice"
}

With the latter form, you can either supply the password as a commandline flag, or let ttrss-tool prompt you for it.

You can also supply this information as commandline flags:

• -a,--addr: the address of your ttrss instance, like https://example.org/ttrss
• -u,--user: the user name
• -p,--pass: the password

If both dotfile and commandline flags are present, then the flags win.

NOTE: The dotfile is just a JSON version of the long commandline flags.

Printing Categories and Feeds

TODO: Describe how feeds and categories are displayed, and what the fields mean.