Support
Questions, comments or suggestions?
Like Feed Notifier? Don’t like it? Have a feature request? Leave a comment on this page!
What are some good RSS feeds that I can subscribe to?
Check out our List of RSS Feeds that we’ve tested. Or check out Bloglines’ list of Most Popular Feeds.
How do I create filters?
See the Keyword Filtering Guide for details on writing your own filters to weed out the junk from your feed subscriptions.
How do I add feeds directly from Firefox?
See the Firefox Integration page for detailed instructions. It’s simple, really.
How do I add feeds from Internet Explorer?
See the Internet Explorer Integration page for detailed instructions.
How do I use authenticated feeds that require a username and password?
Feed Notifier versions 2.2 and up will automatically detect when a feed requires a username and password. You will be prompted to enter your login credentials when adding the feed.
If you need to change your password, you will have to delete and re-create the feed. The username and password cannot be changed once the feed is added.
What new features are planned?
Here are some features that we hope to add to Feed Notifier in upcoming releases. Have an idea that’s not listed? Let us know.
- OPML support – import/export feed information.
- Quiet mode – instead of popping up new items, change the system tray icon to something that will let the user know new items are available.
- Folder structure – to keep feeds better organized and to be able to enable/disable whole groups of feeds with one click.
- Theme configuration – user configurable popup colors and fonts.
Who did this?
Michael Fogleman, a full-time software engineer who likes to create useful applications in his spare time. Contact: fogleman at Google’s email domain.
Dear Michael,
Thanks for making such a useful app, but i was wondering if you could help me with a little problem. I’m trying to tie my (currently local) Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site into Feed Notifier 2.1, but keep getting an error “The URL entered does not appear to be a valid RSS/Atom feed”.
The local site is http://192.168.0.1/_layouts/listfeed.aspx?List={2AD1C1CB-C621-40DF-BA59-19CC1787B758} so it’s viewable by other computers on the network (Outlook and IE RSS integration works with the link fine). The site does need authentication though and i already tried the method you suggested, but still the same error.
Any ideas on what i might be able to do here?
Thanks.
Hi Jawara,
I’ve had a few people report issues with SharePoint feeds. I’m not sure, but I think it’s always been when the feeds are authenticated. I’ll have to somehow get an authenticated SharePoint feed I can test with. I’ll keep you posted.
Michael
Hi,
Is there a portable version of Feed Notifier? (Settings stored in .ini instead of registry, etc.)
Hi Jandor,
Feed Notifier doesn’t use the registry for settings. Once installed, you should be able to just copy the “Feed Notifier” folder from Program Files and put it wherever you want (on a thumb drive, for example).
Michael
Hello,
Does the limitation of 60 sec for popup duration is customizable ?
My customer would like to use maximum value to prevent users to not see a message.
Regards,
Hi Julien,
Uncheck “Auto-play new items” in the Pop-ups preferences. Then the pop-up will stay visible until the user clicks the Next or Close button.
Michael
Thanks Michael :)
When will theme configuration be available ?
Utopic feed notifier theme configuration for me is :
user configurable popup colors and fonts
and icons !
My customer is thinking about deploy Feed notifier on 140 stores to keep saleswoman informed.
Software translation could be usefull too.
Theme is already customizable by adding folders in themes folder.
Thx for this nice app.
Hi Julien,
Thank you for the feature requests – they are what makes Feed Notifier a better application over time. I will add your requests to my list. =)
You can create your own themes (or tweak existing themes) in the themes folder, but I’m actually phasing out HTML-based themes, because the Internet Explorer ActiveX control is buggy on Windows 7 and is not cross-platform. So keep that in mind — the themes folder might not be around much longer.
Also, the default theme is no longer HTML based, so changes to themes/default will have no effect. You can copy/paste that folder to another name if you want to tweak it.
Michael
I got an error when trying to subscribe to this RSS feed:
http://www.bitmob.com/?format=rss
“No handler found for image type.”
Hi Jandor,
Yikes! It looks like they have an empty file as their favicon. I’ll look into fixing this bug. If you need a workaround, go to “C:\Program Files\Feed Notifier\icons\cache” and replace the file http://www.bitmob.com.ico with a valid .ico file. (You can just copy another one in the same directory.)
Michael
Thanks for the quick response and workaround, Michael. I really like your program, and the support can’t be beat.
Curious about how I could install this application on my local network of 60+ machines. I noticed you said it doesn’t use the registry, so could I safely write a script to copy it into their directories?
Hi Justin,
If you can execute the installer on each machine remotely with the following switches, it will install automatically without requiring user interaction:
feed-notifier-2.2.exe /sp- /silent /norestart
Otherwise you can try just copying the files.
Michael
Hi Michael,
I’m using your Feed Notifier on a Windows XP 64 Bit machine and it works pretty nice, but on my other machine running a Windows 7 64 bit it doesn’t work, i.e. no notifications pop up. I already checked the network traffic and it seems that it even doesn’t try to fetch RSS feed updates.
Am I doing something wrong, do I need certain compatibility settings or is this just a bug? It would be great if there was a solution for this issue.
Thanks in advance and best regards,
Christoph
Very nice application, just as it should be!
There is only one thing I miss. I would like to browse through the feeds using the scroll wheel on my mouse as an alternative to the next/previous buttons.
Hi Christoph,
Please try two things to help me diagnose this problem:
1) Does it work if you “Run as Administrator”?
2) Does that computer have multiple network interfaces? If you type “ipconfig” at a command prompt, what IP addresses do you see?
Michael
Hi Thijs,
That’s actually a very good suggestion! I’ll try to add that feature for the next release.
Michael
Maybe I am a nitpicker ;) but I would also expect the popup window to close when I click on a link.
Dear Michael
Is there any chance to customize a copy to receive feed RSS from only one news website and distribute it for the readers as a website notifier.
This looks fantastic, a real winner of a software solution, but it’s missing 1 thing…
- Customizable Audio Chime for each feed. (Have a default set for the main config, if they wish audio)
I know it’s asking a lot and some people won’t want this, but I use it for work in conjunction with Cerberus and I don’t have time to always look at one screen, I have 4. I also work from home, so if I walk away for a moment I have my stereo blasting my computer’s music, so I will still hear it from far away.
Again, great software, just needs one last thing to make it into the annuls of software awesomeness for everyone.
Hi Nabil,
Depends on how much customization you are looking for. You can e-mail me and we can discuss it. My e-mail address is michael.fogleman (gmail).
Michael
Hi Chris,
That’s a great idea and it’s actually already on my list. I hope to make it available in the next release. I don’t have a specific date yet. Glad you like it. =)
Michael
Hello Michael:
Does Feed Notifier support the tags, and if so how does it group? Also, does it give any attention to the tags?
Feed Notifier is a terrific and well designed application. It is very admirable that you offer it at no cost. I would like to thank you.
-Frederick
I aplogize, it seams as though my previous post was parsed and the ‘tags’ have been removed. I will repost with it modified:
Hello Michael:
Does Feed Notifier support the ‘category’ tags, and if so how does it group? Also, does it give any attention to the ‘ttl’ tags?
Feed Notifier is a terrific and well designed application. It is very admirable that you offer it at no cost. I would like to thank you.
-Frederick
What about adding the option to organize the items in the popup by date, not only by feed?
i can’t get Feed Notifier to work with the Mashable! feed??? all other feeds i’ve added are working well.
I can’t seem to subscribe to a Google Reader ‘starred items’ feed that I’ve created. The feed works fine in other RSS readers but your program is telling me…
The URL enterted does not appear to be a valid RSS/Atom feed.
Here is the feed…
http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F12738358743380109557%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fstarred
Thanks for your help.
Hi, this looks like a great tool.
Do you know of a way, were you would need admin rights to add new feed? I would love to be able to lock it down to use a few feeds.
Thanks and keep up the great work!!
Just wanted to ping this thread again since it’s been almost a week since I left my comment about the problem with the Google Starred feeds and I haven’t seen a reply yet. Thanks.
Hi Kevin,
Sorry for the delay, I’ve been dealing with a sickness in the family.
That feed appears to be empty. Try getting an item in the feed and then try subscribing. Feed Notifier considers the feed invalid if it sees no entries in the feed unless the feed also defines both a title and a link. That feed doesn’t define a link for some reason. (It’s actually kind of hard to distinguish valid feeds from invalid ones.)
Michael
Hi Jenny,
The Mashable feed works fine for me. Can you give me the exact URL you are subscribing to? This one works fine for me:
http://feeds.mashable.com/Mashable
Michael
Hi Frederick,
How do you think Feed Notifier should utilize the category and ttl tags? I don’t know that these are used in many feeds so I’ve paid no attention to them as of yet. If you have specific suggestions on how they should be used let me know!
Michael
Hey Michael,
Sorry to hear about the sickness in the family. :(
As you said once I added an item to that Google Starred feed I was able to add it into Feed Notifier. Sweet!
Thanks for all your help.
added http://www.myclientbase.com/myclientbase/rss and get an erro NO HANDLER FOUND FOR IMAGE TYPE
suggestions?
http://www.feednotifier.com/support/feed/
no handler found for image type
huh??
Hi Michael,
A problem I have found is when a feed is down feednotifier stucks. It just shows the green arrow and nothing happens. Maybe some ~10 sec timeout would be useful to skip unresponsive feeds.
A question: why not make this software opensource? Then you would be able to receive bugfixes from the outside world, get it ported to linux and mac. Also it would result in much more trust from the public towards your app. Then no one could say “I don’t know what it does in the background, i don’t trust it”.
Thank you for the useful app.
Thank you for the wonderful app! It works great.
For those of you still having Sharepoint RSS problems, 4 hours-worth of googling later I stumbled upon this link that got things working for me. The problem, as hinted above, was authentication weirdness.
http://blogs.interknowlogy.com/rodneyguzman/archive/2007/08/30/21200.aspx
Hi theMezz,
The issue is an invalid .ico file for http://www.myclientbase.com. You can workaround this by overwriting a valid .ico file here:
C:\Program Files\Feed Notifier\icons\cache\www.myclientbase.com.ico
The second error you got with the feednotifier.com feed was actually caused by the myclientbase.com issue. Restart the app and it should work.
I will fix this bug in the next release, so the app is not susceptible to bad icons.
Michael
Hi Shawn K,
Thanks for the tip, lots of people ask about SharePoint but I don’t have a server to test with, so this is very helpful. I may add this to the FAQ soon.
Michael
Hi Gyorgy,
Thanks for reporting that issue, I haven’t seen it happen. I’ll look into adding a timeout. (Did it ever timeout at all for you?)
Michael
Hi Michael,
Yes, it does timeout after a minute or two, but while I waited for the timeout I couldn’t update manually.
Michael, could you contact me email.
My customer (retail group) wants to have a customized version of your app. (a donation will be done)
Thanks and regards
This is simply a GREAT app! :-)
When all the feeds are up to date (0 waiting) and Feed Notifier is minimized to the system tray, is there a way to AGAIN read the feed messages that were already read before FN got minimized?
Thank you ever so much for Feen Notifier! :-)
So sorry about the typo in my previous posting: ‘Feen Notifier’ = Feed Notifier
Hi Ricercar,
Yes. Just left click on the Feed Notifier icon on the system tray. The most recent item will pop back up and you can use the navigation buttons to view older items.
Michael
Thank you so much, Michael! SO great and simple that I humbly remain – even more amazed. :-)
As we all know, Feed Notifier is just great! :-)
Someone said here that “I would also expect the popup window to close when I click on a link”. Please do NOT implement that or if you do, make it an option. I exactly LIKE that I can click a link, do whatever I want and then return back to FN without first having to open it.
As a computer “power user” touching the mouse only if really needed, I miss keyboard shortcuts. Something like Arrow right = next, Arrow left = previous, Home = first, End = last, Space = play/pause (with the state also preferably INDICATED by, say, a green play button or a red pause button – or simply a word “Paused” or “Playing” somewhere). Do I have hope…? ;-)
Anyway, thank you AGAIN for this great app! :-)
Thanks for the fantastic work on this.
I’ll be looking forward to that “quiet mode” with some kind of icon animation to indicate a new item found.
What I would love on top of that is an option if I click on the icon animation that it simply opens the new feed item directly in the current browser, instead of reading it in a popup.
I use an old program called “Blog Tick” that does that now (the animation + browser open) and I need to retire it because it has some incompatibilities with feedburner feeds.
Hi,
I just tried your program but I am missing an important feature … some of my feeds require a NTLM authentication. Setting user/pass in your login dialog does not work …
Any idea ?
Thanks,
Xav
i have installed on windows 7 64 bit but notifications are not displayed
tank you
Dear Michael,
Feed Notifier works great and I love it! I just installed a windows update and all of my feeds disappeared. Is there any way to recover my feeds and how can I make sure this doesn’t happen again?
Thanks.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your work on Feed Notifier. I am having a problem with AEF (Advanced Electron Forum) rss feed. I am getting the following error: “The URL entered does not appear to be a valid RSS/Atom feed”. The forum is locally hosted, and it is viewable by other computers on the network (Outlook and IE RSS integration works with the link fine). The forum does need authentication and it does support RSS.
Any suggestions?
Great utility. Is there anyway to clear the Item History cache prior to accessing the feed? I have set up a feed for work orders not processed and the list changes as people pick up a work order and process it. So the feed only includes unprocessed and therefore do not want the history to be shown only the current results.
hello congratulations for your program and ‘really nice! but’ I have a problem with windows 7 32 bit when turning off computer windows gives me an error with notifier.exe and the computer waits
Error: The memory could not be read ….
I would know help?
thanks
sorry for my english…
I have the same problem with Windows 7 32 bit, when turning off computer an error is displayed about notifier.exe and task manager waiting to close process.
Tried on Windows 7 Professional Edition and Windows 7 Business Edition, both 32bit, same error.
How do you use the feed:// protocol as mentioned in the features?
Hi,
Whenever i try to connect the Feednotifier to a SharePoint link, its just keeps popping up for login credentials?, even through i have provided the credentials several times.
in regards to customization, what can be done to customize it.
thanks
Sajid Saeed
Hi,
It will be usefull to be able to choose a specific color or picture for one feed.
The idea is to determine without reading the feed of the notification.
I have one feed for each of some project, and it will be usefull to have a color by project…
thanks
When trying to add a feed from dropbox.com I get an error that this feed is not a valid RSS/ATOM feed.
This is the only app I get this error in.
Dear Michael,
Feed Notifier will not update, nor show the small green arrow on the icon in the system tray. I have tried rebooting my computer and reinstalling the application. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
All,
Feed Notifier 2.3 will be released in the next few days and addresses many of the issues listed here in recent comments. A news item will detail the changes once it is released. Thanks for the feedback!
Michael
Hi,
I have a problem with feed notifier. When there is an alert on my screen and the screen saver kicks in, the alert turns opaque black and stays that way after the screen saver is overruled.
Moving over the alert with the mouse, won’t clear the alert up.
One has to either close and reopen, or find the navigation buttons and move to the next or previous, to clear the alert up
Anne
The error with dropbox it seems, has not been addressed.
I believe the issue here is that dropbox, like most others that provide feeds for sensitive data, use https.
Is Feed Notifier set up to handle https feeds? If not, any idea when it might be able to do so?
Great tool, I just wish I could use it with dropbox.
Hi Greg,
Feed Notifier works fine with Gmail RSS feeds over HTTPS, so I don’t think that’s the issue. How do feeds work on dropbox? I thought it was just a place to store files, so I’m confused. Do other readers prompt you for a username and password?
Michael
Hi Greg,
I just now registered on Dropbox and the Recent Events feed is working fine for me on Feed Notifier 2.3. I need more details from you if you still can’t get it working.
Michael
hello i have update the feednotifier at 2.3,but again same error of 2.2:with window 7 32 bit
when turning off computer an error is displayed about notifier.exe and task manager waiting to close process
please help me thanks
best program!!!!
Hi,
I have a sharepoint site with announcements that have a expiry date, i would like the RSS feednotifier to display the items that have not expired. is this possible.
awaitng your reply.
Sajid Saeed Moughal
I have a similar request as Sajid.
After some time of following a handful of feeds with feednotifier, I have quite a list of items in the feed (this is easily more than 20). The problem I face is that among those, there are some that I have seen and have probably read/dealt with in one way or another so that they are no longer relevant and some, very few maybe, still need attention. Yet, the notifier makes no difference between read or not read. The danger is that I may miss out on an important notification.
Oh and another problem I have. When an alert is on my screen and the there is a new update, the alert is not refreshed. Neither is the alert replaced with a newer one, nor is the number updated (from 3 of 3 to 3 of 4).
This is yet another issue that holds the danger in it that I might miss out on a crucial notification
I’m trying to make one of these temporary themes just for the hell of it- where is this “themes” folder?
Hi mys,
Unfortunately, user-created themes are no longer possible since Feed Notifier no longer uses the IE ActiveX plugin for rendering popups. However, I intend to add more themes myself in the future. If you have a design you would like to see made into a theme, feel free to send me a graphical mockup.
Michael
Michael, i really like your product. It is exactly what i am looking for but i need to customize the look and feel of the popup. Can you help me out? I was planning on coding this and on a tight deadline, ran into your product, and i thought i would ask.
thanks.
Hien,
Send me an e-mail describing what you need and we can discuss it further. fogleman (at gmail).
Michael
Hi Michael,
First up, this is a great app. Thanks! I am using it on my desktop but we would like to use it on a number of student computers in a lab. The problem is we need to use a proxy but the password is visible to the students in the options screen. Do you have any recommendations for getting around this? Any chance that you could make the proxy password field an obscured ***** field?
Cheers.
Error when shutting down Windows 7 Professional Edition 32bit still present.
I have found this on Windows event log:
Application popup: notifier.exe – Application Error : The instruction at 0x0000005c referenced memory at 0x0000005c. The memory could not be read.
Click on OK to terminate the program
If you need support for debugging send me an email!
Hi,
I really like your tool but I switch back and forth between an external display at 1920×1200 and a laptop display at 1440×900. As far as I can tell, the X/Y “position” is being determined when the program starts up based on my preferences, so if I have the program configured to display in the lower-right corner and I open it when using my external display, it will render the popup off-screen if I am later using my laptop display.
Could you make it recalculate the x/y position each time before it pops up the notification? I don’t know how intensive an operation it is to query the current screen resolution but it seems like a pretty easy fix as long as that doesn’t slow things down too much.
Thanks!
One thing you might consider for the folks who feel they need to be able to theme their popups is integration with Snarl (http://www.fullphat.net/index.php) or Growl (http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/default.aspx).
Hi Michael,
I have one suggestion for you;-) Popup display duration settings could include 0(=infinity), so that when a popus arrives (and it is something important:)) you won’t miss it.
Thanks for a great app!
Hi Karel,
That’s what the “Step through new items” checkbox is for. :) Try unchecking it.
Michael
Ok good!
So when this is nuchecked it will force the possible popup to wait for my to close it?
If it is so, then I would rename it to something more explanatory. I couldn’t tell what it does really…and I am a SW developer! ;-)
KS
Hi Karel,
What should it be called? I already changed the text once because no one ever finds it. It used to be “Auto-play new items”.
Michael
So Michael, when the “popup autoplay” feature is on, the new popups will appear as they arrive?…that is good.
When it is deactivated, it waits for the user to go through them and that is fine as well….a matter of preference.
The reason why it was confusing is that, looking at the preferences screen, it is not obvious that setting the autoplay effectively overrides the popup duration.
You could make it more apparent by using radios and deactivating the timer when user picks the “autoplay”.
What migh be even better is to use range from 0 to 60s and put a small note:
0 – no closing, wait for me to click ;-)
You will find a solution to this I am sure!
Cheers,
Karel
Hi Michael,
Any ideas/suggestions for my problem?
http://www.feednotifier.com/support/#comment-234
Cheers,
Mark
From yesterday evening it doesn’t work…feeds don’t appear.
I don’t know why, I use Vista and Firefox.
Hope you can help me.
Thanks
For those who have Problems with Sharepoint-Feeds: You have to enable “Base authentication (send passwords unencrypted)” under SP Central Administration -> Security -> Authentication Provider -> Default.
Thanks a Million.
Exactly what I was looking for to Alert me of new Google Alerts on my MOST important RSS feeds.
I’ll buy you a beer or a Coffee if you are ever in London!
You’ve just saved me hours of Development work!
I get an error whenever I shutdown. I am using Windows 7 32bit Ultimate with Feednotifier version 2.3. I had the same error with version 2.2 The error seems to be same as described in comments.
http://www.feednotifier.com/support/#comment-181
http://www.feednotifier.com/support/#comment-182
http://www.feednotifier.com/support/#comment-214
http://www.feednotifier.com/support/#comment-237
I would also like to have one feature. Feednotifier should remember unread feeds/messages. For eg. Sometime I am doing an important work and a Feed notification popsup I click the X to close it. Then when I want to check the unread feeds after sometime it takes me to the last feed. There should a way to go to the first unread feed.
I think a backup setting should be installed so when windows is freshly installed you can be up and running as quick as possible, other than that I just love this software.
Love Feed Notifier! Keep up the good work!
I just wanted to thank you for this amazing little app. After searching for almost a week, i stumbled upon your website, and I’ve been loving it ever since. Thank you for making this.
Hi!
Im trying to compile the sourcecode, but it seems to “Forget” to include the folders:
icons
Microsoft.VC90.CRT
patch
sounds
themes
I have to manually copy these into the feed notifier program files folder.
Do you know of anything that would fix this?
Thanks for this great program :)
Hi Erik,
First make sure you have all the required 3rd party modules installed. Just run the code from source with “python main.py” and see if any errors occur. Off the top of my head you at least need: Python 2.6, wxPython 2.8.10+, feedparser, PLY. InnoSetup to build the installer.
If “python setup.py” is running successfully, I’m not sure why those folders would be missing.
If you still can’t get it to work, give me more detail on exactly what steps you are following.
Michael
Hey thanx for this app, i love it.. I do have an issue that i am unable to resolve, it’s getting the filters to work correctly, but i believe i am setting them right, maybe if someone could take a look at my string and tell me if im doing something wrong.. I’d appreciate any advice\help because i continue to receive notifications for “audio books” and i don’t have the match case option checked eather
-tv and -movies and -”audio books” and -”music videos” and -anime and -comics and -Magazine
Very nice application.Thanks Michael.
Does it works on Pda or windows based mobile phone ?
Michael, first of all – GREAT APP!
Second, is there anyway to add a simply list of feeds window? It’s great to thumb through feeds in the pup-up window; as others have pointed out, it would be great to know which feeds have been read and which feeds have not.
A simple window that lists feeds from most current (top) to oldest. Bold those which have not been clicked (read). Simple columns of “Title”, “Post date”, “Author”, “Feed name”. All are sortable. Have a buttons at the top that reads, “Mark all”, “Show only unread”.
As others have asked for also have a button that clears/deletes all message/feeds so users can reset their window and start fresh at any point.
Your product is great, but I simply need a list window so users don’t have to thumb through feeds.
Your thoughts?
Wil
Hi Michael,
I finally got to compile the sourcecode, but I cant get the DEFAULT_POLLING_INTERVAL code to work.
No matter what I change it to its default on 1 day, Im trying to get this down to 1 minute.
Ive tryed to change it to:
DEFAULT_POLLING_INTERVAL = 60
But still; its a day.
Im doing this in the defaults.py file.
Do you have any ideas?
Thank you so much! I love this program :)
Just as a clarification: Im trying to change how often it checks for new post on a feed :)
Thank you
Erik,
DEFAULT_POLLING_INTERVAL is only used if util.guess_polling_interval doesn’t receive enough data to make an appropriate guess. Even then, the interval is just shown to the user when adding a feed and they can change it.
Michael
Hi Michael, thanks for taking the time to code this brilliant app!
I wish I could contribute, but alas, I don’t know how to.
If you find the time to add an option to “Do not close pop up when mouse hovers over window” that would complete Feed Notifier. I find myself attempting to speed read almost every pop up – never able to find a balance between too long for the news items i don’t want to read and too short for the news items i want to just read the teaser text.
Cheers :)
Best
Rasmus
Hi,
thanks for this nice app.
I just wanted to warn that I Have the same problem as Maurizio concerning Windows 7 32-bits, when my PC shuts down I get an error message about notifier.exe.
Unfortunately I’m unable to make a screenshot because computer shuts down a few seconds afterwards.
Any idea ?
Thks ;-)
OPML support is what could really make this a useful product. After all, you don’t describe it as a full-featured RSS reader and as a supplemental tool it should really support import from the main tool (like, I use Google Reader and am quite comfortable with it but I need popup notifications as well – this is the reason for me to install FeedNotifier and uninstall it once I realized no OPML support was there).
Hi
thanks for the program
is 100% portable , i mean does it write in the registry or file(outside the folder of the program) ?
thanks
Hi
really a great software
i add an movie rss , is there a way to have the picture of the movie ,and the plot or genre in the notifier ?
in the movie site there are picture , tags ,plot and genre
thanks
Any idea when the OPML option will become available (ie timeframe)
I’d love to be able to push my entire OPML to the app without adding them one by one!
Is anyone else having a problem with all of your feeds randomly disappearing after a reboot?
When do you plan to release a Mac and Linux version?
Just wondering if you will be supporting xml and feedburner.com feeds any time soon? I’m getting this message:
—————————
Invalid Feed
—————————
The URL entered does not appear to be a valid RSS/Atom feed.
—————————
OK
—————————
When attempting to add this feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/PSBlog
Its the official sony playstation blog. Thanks!
Hi C.R. Hatfield,
You need to click the “View XML” link on that page to get the actual feed URL.
Try this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PSBlog?format=xml
Michael
Hi Michel Dionne,
There were issues with Linux and Mac, particularly Mac. You can try running the program from the source code, but I’m no longer anticipating a release for other platforms. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Michael
Hey Michael, i found this application but I am having problems with adding feeds like the person with the playstation blog.
I’m trying to add
Slickdeals.net’s front page feed
I tried the xml one as well
http://feeds.feedburner.com/SlickdealsnetFP?format=xml
but its just saying the url entered does not appear to be a valid rss/atom feed
Not sure whats wrong with this feed. Thanks
Why is feednotifier too stupid to stay on my primary monitor? :0 I have 2 Monitors and always get the popup on the secondary monitor in the coordinates where it should stay on primary monitor >_< I bet its because my primary monitor is registered as second monitor and my secondary as first monitor…
Ok my fault sorry. found the settings now. But n1ce tool anyways =)
It works under windows XP, but does not under Windows 7!
I just tried and craigslist feeds dont work under 7 but work under windows xp with v2.3
fix that please.
FK forgot i had advanced firewall in Windows 7.
But you need to fix it to dont say The URL entered does not appear to be a valid RSS/Atom feed when blocked by firewall anyway ;)
What about client certificate support? RSS Bandit for example is using that and I can see my Sharepoint protecte feeds.
Hi Michael,
Could you elaborate a little bit more about the known issues with Linux and Mac?
I would be interested to try porting the application on these platforms. But I would like to have an idea of the problems that need to be fixed.
Thanks in advance.
In case someone is interested, I have released a French version of FeedNotifier here:
http://github.com/downloads/FBergeron/FeedNotifier/feed-notifier-2.3_fr.exe
@Erik: I have encountered the same issue that you have met when building the application, where some resource files were not copied in the distribution directory by the setup script.
To fix the problem, remove the tests with “.svn” in the internal tree() function of the get_data_files() function. It should read like this:
def tree(src):
return [(root, map(lambda f: os.path.join(root, f), filter_files(files))) for (root, dirs, files) in os.walk(os.path.normpath(src))]
How can i stop the pop up from appearing and just have the sound notification?
As for feature request…. Can we have notification by colour change of the system tray icon?
Hi,
Thanks for this very useful tool. I really love the update now feature of this tool.
My suggestion is to add a very need feature of import and export feeds with our settings / preferences. I recently formatted my PC and I have to add all feeds again manually (ya I am a lazzy guy lol).
Hope to see this feature in new version.
Hi Micheal,
Awesome work on the application! Loving it! Was searching for an application like this for so long!…Thanks again for the work :)
Heres another feature you could implement:
I have some feeds that contain certain links in the body/description of the feed. When these feeds gets displayed, they appear as normal text (unclickable)…If they could appear as clickable links, this application would reach its 100% versatility..
Awaiting your feedback Micheal…
Thanks again,
Brian
Very useful application for monitoring the support ticket system at my workplace – thanks for making it free :D
I have two ideas though:
- Have the option to show different in different colours
- Add a way of changing the notification sound (either globally, or per-feed)
Oops, the first idea in my previous comment should have been “Have the option to show different *feeds* in different colours”.
Hi,
Nice app indeed, thanks.
One thing though. The notifier takes font color from system (which is *white* in my case). But does not take the background color from the system (which is dark in my case).
So as a result I have popups with white text on white background, which is so to say, inconvenient.
Would it be posible to take the background from system?
Thanks.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for this tool, I have get the v2.3 source code, two problems:
1. The setup.py line 67, I think it should be:
return [(root, map(lambda f: os.path.join(root, f), filter_files(files))) for (root, dirs, files) in os.walk(os.path.normpath(src)) if '.svn' not in root and '.svn' not in dirs]
2. The multi-thread polling of feed will cause a sychronization problem, I try to add a lock for the parser, then it’s ok.
Hi!
Wery nice app!
What character is used for new line in the rss? , all of my feeds do not have any new line at all and the text get unreadable.
/thanks
Hello, thank you for the program. I do not know english. i am using to google translate.
The program does not support Twitter. previously worked, but does not work anymore.
I want to add is an error firefox. (Your timeline rss)
Basic authentication is not supported
Please help.
Nice program. Here is my wish list:
* A way to show the entire history list at once without having to scroll through each feed.
* A way to show the entire history list but filtered on a specific feed url
Will not work with our proxy server. Our settings for our browsers only need the server name and the port. Everything is probably done through Active Directory authentication.
Any way you can work in a fix?
Hi,
i like know if possible for me to translate the feed notifier in french for use it and with the actual license can i remove some option to feed notifier to put the programme more simple to use
Thanks for you answer
(Sorry for my english)
Benoit
It would be nice to have chrome integration to add an RSS feed easily.
@Benoit:
I have already translated the application in French. It’s available here:
https://github.com/downloads/FBergeron/FeedNotifier/feed-notifier-2.3_fr.exe
You can also see the code there.
The license is BSD so it should be no problems to do what you want. Of course, I’m not a lawyer :-)
Michael,
Very nice app! One issue for our use – it doesn’t work with our proxy server. I’ve tried pretty much every permutation possible of userID:password@proxy:port I could and nothing worked (we use AD authentication, so I tried domain\userID as well).
Hardcoding the password is problematic anyway, even if it did work. What would be really nice is if FN would simply respect the IE proxy settings.
Thanks,
Malcolm
Excellent program! But there is a bug, when the program forcibly closes, often all RSS news feeds are erased! And I have often to re-add them…
Just like SlaviO and Craig reported: RSS feeds are often lost when the system is shut down and restarted.
This makes this tiny and really nice program useless. Adding 30 feeds every week just because Feed Notifier lost them is irritating, please fix it asap.
I’ve stopped using this program because of this issue :-(
My OS: Windows 7.
If anyone has fixed it already, please post here a link to a patched version. Thank you!
SlaviO, Craig, and Wiktor have mentioned the issue where some (or all?) the RSS feeds are often lost when rebooting Windows. Wiktor wrote that he was using Windows 7. Could someone confirms if this issue also occurs on Windows XP?
Also, I would be curious to know if something interesting is written in the notifier.exe.log file. The latter can be found in the folder where the application is installed (on Windows XP, it should be in c:\Program Files\Feed Notifier).
Meanwhile, I will try to reproduce the problem in order to fix it but rebooting Windows all the time is not very fun to do :-)
I am using Windows 7 x64, what about Windows XP don’t know. It is not a normal reboot, as in an emergency shutdown for example on power failure. It feels that the program keeps everything in memory and only during normal shutdown all records in the file, in the case of power loss, all is lost.
My notifier.exe.log:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “view.pyo”, line 68, in on_close
File “controller.pyo”, line 44, in save
File “feeds.pyo”, line 265, in save
IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
Same here:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “view.pyo”, line 68, in on_close
File “controller.pyo”, line 44, in save
File “feeds.pyo”, line 265, in save
IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
Not sure if it has anything todo, but I’m almost sure that I didn’t reboot it using a button on the computer, but used the start menu in Windows to do that, so from my perspective I haven’t done (technically) anything wrong.
Along with switching from Windows XP to Windows 7, where I started experiencing this issue, (I do not remember having same issues @ XP), I have purchased a SSD drive for my OS. Maybe Windows is now closing itself too fast and because of that and Feed Notifier has too little time to write changes (?)
Hello all,
I think I have enough information to fix the shutdown bug on Windows 7. I will try to release a fixed build soon. Sorry for the delay, I’ve been spending my time working on an iPhone game. =)
Thanks for your patience.
Michael
I’m facing a trouble while shutting down the computer.
A message come saying the “memory can’t be written”.
I close the window and the computer shuts down normally.
If I close the program before shutting down, it closes without error and the Windows shut down is correct.
How can I troubleshoot it?
I’d like to join in requesting the ability to remember which feeds are read.
For comparison, the notifier I previously used was infoRSS
Currently the definition of a read feed seems to be one that has been shown in a popup.
To be clear, I’m talking about ones that have been opened in a browser (ideally there would be an option to mark as read without opening the browser in addition.) I think this is already tracked by the clicks counter. “All that’s necessary” (yeah, whatever that’s worth) would be to set the next/previous functions to optionally skip items with clicks > 0. Finally, I guess you’d like the play button to cycle back to the first “unviewed” item, since now there could still be “unviewed” items after reaching the end.
It’s really hard for me to read python, but it looks like you’d also have to adjust the caching so that cached items are only viewed items? maybe?
Thanks for building this tool, even if you don’t implement this feature.
-a.
Extremely good application, I have downloaded various similar applications but none quite have the same “does what it says on the box” type feel to it. Very simplistic.
However the feed cache and item history parameters do not seem to be working. If I set the feed cache to 1 day and 10 items per feed for example I still can see ~1000 items up to 8 days old. Also the items are displayed by their feed grouping rather than by age which would be an extremely useful option here.
Thanks.
Paul.
Hello Michael
I appreciate your software, have been using it for some weeks now to monitor whenever a new torrent has been added to a tracker since I need to seed alot to up my ratio.
Is there a setting that will make it only notify me of NEW torrents (torrents that have been added just a couple of minute ago)? Currently every time I reboot I get notified of torrents a couple of hours to 1 day ago (my item history is 1 day). So I guess is there way to reduce the item history from 1 day to only 10-15 min?
If not is there some other software that you can recommend for this?
Michael,
Can you please add the ability to display a thumbnail for RSS picture feeds?
Love your app Michael, a couple of questions.
I have a feed that i want to check every second, the app doesn’t seem to be precise though. Looks like its checking every 3 seconds or so.
The shut down bug…will this be addressed soon.
Great app Michael. Just doing what it is supposed to. Thanks a lot for this wonderful work
Feature request
1. Continuous rss check (I have a few pages that i need to know the instant its updated)
2. Open page url on new feed
3. Feature to turn the bold headline on/off
4. Time out for checking feed eg…if feed rss url cant be reached in x seconds, stop and try at next set time.
if feed check cant be continuous, maybe “ms” then? yeah i need my feeds that fast!
Hello,
It seems there is a little bug.
This morning was the second time that my feeds list reseted. All my feeds were lost :(
I can see that the file feeds.dat and settings.dat reseted back to default.
The first time it happened to me was 2 month ago.
Here is th log:
12:33:45 INFO Loading feed data from “feeds.dat”
12:33:45 INFO Loaded 0 feeds, 0 items, 0 filters
12:33:45 INFO Adding feed “http://www.feednotifier.com/welcome.xml”
12:33:45 INFO Starting worker threads
12:33:45 INFO Polling feed “http://www.feednotifier.com/welcome.xml”
12:33:56 INFO Worker threads completed
12:33:57 INFO Saving feed data to “feeds.dat”
@Icemaker – it happened to me as well a couple of times. I reported it almost a month ago but I’m now having doubts that it will be ever fixed :(
Hello! How advances in software update?
Hi
I’m having a problem: once I started windows and FN poped up with message “fn welcomes you…” like I have just installed it but in fact I installed it while ago and had few feeds added. And now they all gone and I have only http://www.feednotifier.com/welcome.xml in my feed list. Any ideas what had happened?
Thanx
2 feature request
- Categories in rss link adder
if rss link contain pic to be shown
Hi there Michael!
Thank you for writing this awesome application!
I have a small suggestion though, the RSS pop up window is great, however it’d be really great if there also was a possibility to display a window with a list of feeds, it’d be much easier to go back to read some older feed when there is a list instead of having to click through the small pop up window many times.
Thank You!
Small correction, by “feeds” I meant “items” in feeds.
This has to be one of the best freeware apps ever! It has just the right amount of features while not being too bloated. I only have a few feature requests if that is ok (in order from most important to least important)
1. Middle clicking the tray icon will update all feeds. I think it would be much easier than right-clicking and selecting “Update Now”. If that is not possible, a user-configurable hotkey would be nice.
2. New items from the last update will have a different colored background. I added around 8 feeds so far so thought it would be nice to see how far I need to scroll back when new posts arrive.
3. Some ability to flag/star feeds so they are exempted from the “clear history”. That might be beyond the scope of the program but I’d probably use it if it existed.
I’d say the my first feature request would already make the software perfect for me. Awesome program once again!
Hello everyone,
I’ve released Feed Notifier 2.4. This version only has one change – the bug fix you’ve all been asking for for months now. (Losing all of your configured feeds due to a file corruption when exiting Feed Notifier.) Sorry it took so long, and let me know if you still have issues after updating!
Michael
Thanks Michael for continuing to support this app! It truly is a great app, however I am still experiencing the “shutdown” issue that others have mentioned – is there any plan to address that particular issue? Interestingly enough, it doesn’t appear to happen on Windows 7 64-bit for some reason, though it does on 32-bit? Does that make sense?
Thanks again Michael,
Dave.
Hello Mike,
Thanks a lot for creating this great application! I just want to let you know that there seems to be a bit of problem using this application with the rxml feeds. For example, when I tried to add :
http://www.ercot.com/feed/show_rss.rxml?feed=opsmessages
It gave me an error message saying the URL entered does not appear to be a valid RSS/Atom feed.
It would be really great if you could resolve that.
Thanks!
Dave,
Ok, I’ve fixed that bug too – but I’m keeping the version number at 2.4. Download and install again to get the fix.
Michael
Anyi,
That feed works fine for me. Can you get other feeds to work? If not, there may be some network connectivity issue.
Michael
Hi Michael,
a small feature request: prevent the popup box do disappear when I move the mouse over it. Usually I’d do that to have more time to read the summary.
- Stefan
Hi Michael,
Silly me, I forgot to log into the proxy, which is what I am under….
It all works now, thanks once again for this great program!
Hi there Michael -
I love your software, it’s a neat app for use when working on the computer. You can say that it is the equivalent of RSS Hub on a Windows Phone.
One feature you may want to implement is importing/exporting all feeds into a csv or however would be simplest. I hope you can implement this sometime soon, then this app be the best choice for RSS reading, manually adding feeds 1 by 1 is tedious.
I also wanted to mention that making the box draggable as well to a user defined area would be neat and adding a context menu for a right click on the actual feed/app would help for options such as:
Keep on top
Transparency – 25%/50%
Copy article link (Not feed)
[Maybe an e-mail this link too]
Hope that helps you with future developments.
One last note,
As I read you said you’d be adding some themes soon since you dropped support for user created ones, I’d suggest a native Windows 7 Aero theme; a good example would be: http://www.trillian.im/learn/screenshots/trillian5-desktop.png
Please let me know your thoughts, have a great day and thanks!
Thank you very much for the new release with bug fix! Now your program is 100% best in its class! :)
Count me in as needing OPML support. Moving my almost 60 feeds over manually? Yeesh!
Thanks.
Hi there,
Thanks a bunch for this great light tool!!
Problem – All feeds are opening in IE8 but i want them to open in firefox…How can i achieve that?
Regards.
forgot to add……firefox is the default browser
Hi,
b
Thanks for the great application.
I wonder if it is possible to see how many seconds passed from the RSS item arrived.
Is it possible to view this information in a log file ?
Thanks again.
Hanan
Hi,
Absolutely great program.
My feature requests would be:
a) the option to repeat the sound alert until you click the notifying window (or explain how we could do it ourselves if you want). This is useful if you are not in front your screen.
b) the option to have feednotifier open the link in the article automatically, as soon as it gets it.
Thanks.
Hi Michael, I really like your app and I would like to make more use of it. I’m using it to subscribe to Jira RSS, but Jira seems to be outputting in CSS which doesn’t come out very well in the notification popup. Is there a plan to support this?
Unfortunately I can’t cut and paste the contents, so I’ll just type some to give you a flavour:
* { border: 0 ; padding: 0 } .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: etc. etc.
Hopefully that makes sense and this is CSS formattin like I think it is!!!
All the best, Dan.
Hi,
Why does Feed Notifier display posts in such a random order?
Currently, in my list, there is a feed from 1 hour ago, then 1 day ago, then 2 days ago, then 1 hour ago, then 2 hours ago, then 4 hours ago, etc. I understand that they belong to different feeds, but come on, would it not be logical if they were displayed in publication time order?
(At least what if that would be an option in Preferences?)
Regards,
szali
Hi szali,
Being a notification app, Feed Notifier displays items as soon as they are received. Items received in a batch are displayed in chronological order. To sort items across multiple feeds, Feed Notifier would have to wait until all feeds were successfully polled to display anything.
Or consider that Feed A polls every minute and Feed B polls every 5 minutes. Should Feed B insert its items behind Feed A’s items when it gets polled 4 minutes later?
Propose exactly how you envision it working.
Michael
Hi,
feed notifier is a great application.
one question: is it possible that
it displays only feednews, that are
2 oder 3 hours old. if there would
be a filter it would be great.
because there are too many news
to display. i want to reduce it to
the most current ones.
have you got an advide?
thanks in advance
Hi Michael
I have turned off skipping through feeds, so sometimes a feed will come in and then a next 1 comes in a few seconds later and i dont get to see that 1.
A nice addition would be to have a next window popup on top to show the next feed when i am already viewing 1.
Hi,
First of all, great program!
I’ve been looking for a program like this for a longtime and got a hint from another – now closed RS feeder program – about Feednotifier and been using it for some time now!
I would suggest fixing so you can theme pop for a specific feed (and/or categories in the future?).
hi. the portable version updates to a installable version. so it’s getting installed after downloading the update and the portable version remains as old version. maybe you should change the handling of updates for portable versions, or disable this feature in portable mode.
anyways, nice tool. thanks!
Great program, like may others have said! Is there a way to have our feed initially entered into Feed Notifier then the program made available for downloading and installing by our customers? That way it would come pre-loaded with our feed.
@chuck just get the portable version, run and customize it with your feeds and a feeds.dat and settings.dat file should be created, containing your feeds and settings. and repackage it using an autoit script, or nullsoft installer (nsis), or an self-extracting winrar/7zip-archive…
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your response!
I think the best solution would be that FN marks the feeds you have read by e.g. coloring the hyperlink purple or what. (I find it quite annoying when i cannot bind a post’s title to its content and later i click one more time on the title and see that i have read that before.) Then it should display the read posts first and the unread posts after that. Now if you do not read posts in an order, you may miss some posts as they sink deeper and deeper in the list, covered by posts you have already read, then you maybe miss them forever because they get lost like a needle in a haystack.
Regards,
szali
i think i got it mixed up: so it should display the unread posts first and the read posts after that
Hello Michael
I would like to know if according to your license (which I cannot find) it’s allowed to use your software within a company.
Another thing I am curious about is this library.zip package which cannot be opened by WinZip and weights 7MB. Is there a reason why this package is so heavy?
Thanks for your response.
Ramón
Feed Notifier uses a BSD license as mentioned on the download page. The exact license is available in the source download.
I can open library.zip fine using 7-zip. Feed Notifier uses Python, so the entire Python interpreter and libraries have to be included in this zip file.
Thanks for your fast response.
If I understand the BSD license it is even more “open” then the GNU license which would allowe us to use it without any further steps within a company (as it is – there is no need to modify your work as it already includes what we looking for – well done)
Meanwhile I had the same idea to open it with 7-zip. : )
Please correct me if I missunderstood the license part as I am not a lawyer.
Best regards
Ramón
Yes you can use it without modification however you want. The license mainly just requires you to list my copyright notice if you use the Feed Notifier source code in your own application.
Thank you for the “confirmation”. The questions may looked stupid but I wanted to be sure.
By far the best portable rss reader out there. Nice work.
Have a nice day.
Ramón
Hi Michael,
Thank you for this wonderfull and simple application.
There is however one slight wish is on my list before I can actually put it into use: I need the pop-up to be indefinite. So no time-out or a time out of more that 1 hour or so.
This would be much appriciated!
Kind regards,
Rob Boerlage
Is there a way to have the pop-ups stay open indefinitely? I use Feed Notifier for new eBay listings of a particular item and it’d be nice to not miss those pop-ups if i’m away form my desk.
Uncheck “Step through new items” in the preferences.
Please, make the installation description. I tried, and have put like everything, but all the same swears.
The following modules appear to be missing
[' _scproxy ', ' chardet ', ' chardet.constants ', ' cjkcodecs.aliases', ' iconv_codec ', ' mx. Tidy ', ' tidy ']
Which modules are used?
I was mistaken. Not installation. The compilation description.
Can a user option be programmed so the Feed Notifier can be toggled between auto-loading and not auto-loading at startup?
Thanks! Great application!
Michael, your notifier is excellent, and I am currently using it to inform our users of updates to our web system. These can happen as often as several times a minute. I would like to format the updates from the past five minutes line by line, ie:
12:31 Update1: New item added
12:19 Update2: New item added
12:17 Update3: New item added
How can I format the description field in the RSS for your application? HTML appears to be ignored. The tags I’m using are “” and “ “.
Thanks again. Ian
The Monitor option in Pops-ups -> appearance dont work.
Thanks, good job…
Yes, if it recognized br (line break) and b (bold) html tags, it would be a really good addition! Thank you Michael.
Simon
i’ve been using it for only one day but it’s been great so far :)
it’d be really cool to be able set different colors for specific feeds
like: i want to set all my news feeds to be show in a gray color (because it’s very frequent), while something less frequent- an update on a development blog would be in red or yellow- so i would notice that this is something else than the regular news that i get once per 2 hours or so
Really useful tool! Unfortunately, the version I’m using (2.4 :: Build 644) has the following bug:
Sometimes the displayed number of all items is incorrect and it changes when I manually step through new items.
I just found your very useful app a week ago. Thank you very much for developing it. I’m successfully using it for eBay and Craigslist. I think one useful feature would be SMS and/or Email notification. In case the user is not in front of their computer at the time, the user can read the notification on their cell phone via SMS or email. Email would probably work great especially if the user has push email capabilities on their cell phones like the BlackBerry phones.
Can i use your software with FaceBook notification ?
Mike,
This might help you with sharepoint feeds.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pstubbs/archive/2010/05/11/download-sharepoint-2010-vhd-demo-environment.aspx
Love the app!
Fantastic app for ebay notification. LOVE IT! Wish I had it on my android phone, or perhaps you could ad a skype “text alert to me” feature.
Those of us who love to get a great deal on Ebay or craigslist, love your software. I replaced your wav file alert with a song I like. I jump for joy everytime it goes off, like winning the lottery!
One of the best apps I use.
Android is next????
Hi there. I’m have difficulties loading a craigslist RSS Feed. The error comes up when I try to add the feed, the error I get says: “The URL entered does not appear to be a valid RSS/Atom feed.”
The URL I’m entering is this:
http://nh.craigslist.org/search/?areaID=198&subAreaID=&query=exercise+bike&catAbb=sss&format=rss
I am using the Feed Notifier: PortableApps version 2.4, build 644.
Please let me know what I am doing wrong. ; ) Thanks!
Oh, and Great App! Keep up the good work!
Ed
“What new features are planned?” good idea :D
:) i hope to close the pages when right clicking the mouse
Man, you are my idol!
this app it’s pretty useful, congratulations for the work.
Now the only thing it’s resting are new themes, cause the design still is a little boring,
but the app is awesome.
Congratulations again.
Dear Michael,
First of all, it is really a great apps!
Very useful and congratulation for the work.
Wondering if you can add a function to save the link to clipboard besides direct opening it in the default browser while clicking it .
Thanks very much for your great apps.
Ad Loc said above CR LF’s are not working. What is the solution to this for RSS?
This is a great app. I’ve just spent an afternoon making some very simple modifications to use this on an office network for event notifications such as system downtime and other mass broadcasts. It’s a sign of how well this is written when I can do this despite never having used Python before in my life.
The one thing I can’t figure out – which would be very useful for others too IMHO – is to have the app parse dates from feeds. RSS items support a pubDate element which I think should be read for the purposes of expiry instead of what time the client actually reads the item.
I just looked at the source and the CRLF or or are not supported currently. He specifically removes the markup out of the description element and limits the text to 400. So color and formatting are not available right now.
This is a a request to handle some html tags.
The code that is the culprit is util.py at the very bottom the function is format which class remove_entries and remove_markup.
Why can’t I add this feed? http://www.diariolibre.com/rss/diariolibre
I’m behind a ISA Server proxy at the office and using Microsoft Firewall Client, but I can’t add any feed to FeedNotifier. Error “Not a valid RSS/Atom feed”. Please help?
hm, my question was deleted… so strange… no any help for me…
oh, sorry, i see my question and wait answer)
Rodrigo. I had the same error until I configured Feed Notifier to ue the company proxy server. Preferences | options | proxy.
If you already tried that check the syntax of your proxy server. Good Luck
Very awesome, works like a charm, and thanks for making it open source :)
I tried with several apps but all of them had too many features which i don’t need. Fortunately i found yours: minimalistic, stylish and to the point.
Thanks.
Thanks for this great app, and for giving it for free!
I like it very much, but I really dislike the fact that the popup window is always on top. This force to read the feed immediately and close the window as soon as possible to continue to work.
Can you add an option to toggle the Always On Top state of the window?
Thanks in advance.
Oh, two other things:
Is it still possible to leave the popup window open until the user closes it explicitly? In your post from March 8 2010, you said “Uncheck “Auto-play new items” in the Pop-ups preferences.” But that option is not present any more, and the Duration is limited to 60 seconds. Any workaround?
Also, I would like to disable the fact that the popup window is closed automatically when I click on the last message. IMO, it should be closed only when the close button is clicked. (BTW, I suggest also to change the behaviour of the click on the tray icon to a toggle: it should show the window, or close it if it is currently displayed. That would be nice to have a quick look at the last message without having to move the mouse too much.)
It doesn’t work with biblegateway spanish verse of day
Try it:
http://www.biblegateway.com/usage/votd/rss/votd.rdf?42
I agree with Chuck ( http://www.feednotifier.com/support/#comment-1599 ), an option in the actual application to enable and disable loading at startup would be nice (not just during installation).
Hi Michael,
Just a quick note to say thank you.
A great bit of kit & it’s free (who can grumble about that!!!!).
Well done, really appreciated.
Hi Michael,
thx for the great App.
But would it be possible to save the password for the proxy not in cleartext but in some kind of encryptet. And also not to show it in cleartext in the options.
I think it wouldn’t be difficult, I saw a similar function in the sourcecode for the feed-password.
Thanks.
Hi, Great program, love it’s simplicity.
I have just subscribed to http://www.thenakedscientists.com/naked_scientists_podcast.xml and it has downloaded over 200 items, thus making it more difficult to find my important feeds. I have tried setting the ‘Preferences/Options/Feed cache to 10 and clearing but this had had no effect.
Is there a way I can delete some of these feeds?
Thanks for a slick piece of software
Dear Michael,
Thank you for this very useful application.
I have one problem. Application stops checking for new feeds until I restart. In every 5-10 minutes I have to restart to receve feeds. I hope you have a solution.
Regards
Dear Michael,
thanks for this great and useful application.
Since I use feednotifier I realy get NEWS from my subscribed Feeds.
But I agree with Ribleu: It is necessary to encrypt the proxy-password in the settings.dat an make it not visible in the application.
Please make a fix for this.
And by the way, if you want to make a multi language version, I do the german translation for you.
Hi there, I really like this program cuz it does exactly what I need it to do but it keeps getting stuck with the green arrow on it. I have no idea why it’s doing that and how to getting back to normal again. some help would be really appreciated
Hi there, I really like this program and want translate to another language. What need to do this?
Awesome idea and work! loving the program :-)!!!
First of: Thanks!
I got Feed Notofier auto updated to 2.5 (build 792) a few days ago, and now I experience that I get repeated alerts for the same items in the feed – the feed url is http://www.composite.net/RSS/CommunityTweets.ashx
Is there a known issue here?
Thanks!
Marcus
Please add the language Portuguese ( Portugal)!!! I like your application (:
hi,
I have a ton of feeds from IE. Just wondering if its possible to import them all at once or do i have to do them all individually?
Jason
Thanks for this great app. The only feature that I miss is the use of HTML tags ( ) in the DESCRIPTION to make the display more visible.
Thanks for this great app. I would also like to request the ability to add show the html formatting that is within the description tag.
hi
Great software
I have three suggestion for your software:
1. Add language file that I can translate your software to my language
2. Add an option to export my feed list and use it later or share it with other people
3. My language is Right to left reading order, so I wondered if you had an option to change the software to right to left reading order.
Michael,
Feednotifier is an one of its kind, very useful application – thank you for creating it.
I have found one small glitch – the notification time (at the top of the notification, e.g. ’15 minutes ago’) is not calculated correctly on my computer – it appears that it’s about 3 hours late (all messages in last 3 hours are ’0 seconds ago’). This is probably due to incorrect handling of timezones in incoming atom xml. My timezone is GMT +1 (warsaw,zagreb). Atom XML has all date/times in UTC
Hi Michael,
This is an excellent application, and I will be reviewing the source code soon. I noticed that the feed does not change if the pubdate, description, or lastbuild date is updated.
Is there a way to send pushes to delete cached items, or update cached items?
Hi,
Is it possible to disable logging or change the log file location? I have feednotifier running from my dropbox and it keep syncing because of changes in the log file.
Other tips on sharing settings from feednotifier across multiple computers are welcome!
Regards,
Thijs
Hi,
Thanks for providing such excellent software for free.
I want to filter a feed I am monitoring to alert me only when either the word music or song appears in the title. I’m using the following rule:
title:song or music
I find that it filters out posts that clearly should match and shows me ones that don’t. For example it shows me this one:
[TOMT] Oblivion Video where the player is dressed up as the Burger King doing crazy things, made by a Redditor [game video]
yet it ignores this one:
[TOMT](Song) anyone know the name of this song?? Link inside
‘Match Case’ is unticked and ‘Match Whole Words’ is ticked.
Many thanks,
Ivan
Ivan,
It should be: title:song or title:music
The first post probably had “music” in the post somewhere.
Match Whole Words splits on whitespace, so you’ll need to uncheck it for it to match [TOMT](Song) since there are no spaces.
I guess it’d be better if it split on any punctuation too.
Michael
Hi Michael,
I can see were I went wrong. Thanks for showing me the correct way to set specific field filters for multiple keywords. Yeah I guess it would be better if it could include punctuation as well as whitespace in matching whole words but it’s a minor quibble.
Many thanks,
Ivan
The concept is great but I must admit I’m having troubles with the filters and general behavior of the program.
To replicate:
1. Add a feed.
2. The feed is updated and the program shows the popup with all the new items.
3. Add a filter to this particular feed, activate it.
4. Double clicking shows all available items, again. Not just the filtered ones.
…
5. Here I thought that maybe the filters are applied on-the-fly during an update, so… I go to Options and clear the cache.
6. Click update now, the green arrow appears.
7. Nothing happens. No popup at all. Double click doesn’t bring it up.
….
8. Deleting the filter altogether doesn’t bring the pop up either, even after another update.
9. Deleting the cache – same results.
10. No matter what I do from now on – I get no pop up items at all. Only deleting the feeds and re-adding them restore the pop up.
?????
Am I missing something here?
I am using your notifier. I love the simplicity of it but it keeps repeating the same feeds over and over. It is not recognizing them as already read. Is there a setting i might have missed. Thanks
Dear Michael,
We are testing your Notifier at work. I need a small couple of info:
There is a way to “Inject” the feed settings in the program? I want to remote installing it and have it already configured (and we need different settings for different users).
It’s possible to “secure” the configuration? (to avoid people putting in in all the feed they find around).
Thanks a lot,
Giuseppe.
First I want to say, awesome program. It is clean and simple. I am thinking of deploying this enterprise wide and was wondering if there was a simple way to add a default feed to it before deployment. Like maybe a simple configuration file?
Thanks!
Hi Asaf,
I am having the same issues with caching. I need to make dynamic updates to the Feeds. I am in the process of reviewing the source code. Once I figure it out, I will send you my update via this comment forum.
Hi Giuseppe,
I have solved your first problem, by configuring my Feed Notifier to the selected Items I want for the team. The replacing their feeds.dat file with mine. It is not the perfect solution, but it works with little fuss.
Thanks for creating such a wondering application. This is exactly what we require in our environment to notify our users of any messages.
I have one question: We need to deploy this application to our 200+ stores and each one of them will be subscribed to a different feed. So instead of manually going to each pc and changing the Feed URL to be the one they need to be subscribed to, is there any way we can make the application read an ini file which would contain the URL of the feed(and possibly the other parameters you have got in it such as the polling interval and so forth) which we can modify and then deploy it our stores so that they only read feeds relative to their store?
Any help will be highly appretiated.
Please ignore the issue I reported above.It was strictly my error, (url wasn’t a valid feed).Thanks again for this awesome app
Hi Michael
Thank you for writing this awesome rss reader!
Please add individual setting per feed, i wont customize notify sound
by some important feed source and set custom sound for it
thanks!
I hope it is possible to create groups for feeds and add buttons for each group at the bottom/top of the interface.
eg.
o o o o o o o o o o – [these circles represent buttons]
each button is configured to a group manually created by the user.
If I press the first button then I’ll only be seeing rss feeds that I’ve put into that particular group.
it’ll be a plus we are able to customize the buttons by color coding them or put icons/png images as an alternative.
Anyways, Thanks for making such a wonderful app. :] lookin’ forward to your next update.
Oh, almost forgot. If you could add an option to.
1.”show only today’s feeds”
2. “show old feeds. 3 days ago”
3. custom
Once again THANKS for this cool app. :]
Godbless you my friend.
OPML support & Groups (with differentiated colour-coded notifications)! Please!
I read half way through the previous listings then realised I was still in 2010… maybe you can reverse the order of the responses for this site too!
Grrrrreaaaatttt
Hi back again! I thought the folder colour notifier co-ordination thing would quite common though i have tried: feed notifier, feed reader, feed demon, Rss Owl, Rss Bandit (incidently the order I rank them) & I can’t see the option. I think infoRSS extension for Firefox is the only one (I started with) that implements this though its development is on the rocks as far as I can tell (as well as limited to browser).
So ‘this’ is what I mean. In the upcoming release you mention including folders & themes so maybe you already have it covered… Anyways, lets you say you have a folder/group & assign it the colour red. When a story from here arrives, an alert pops up with a red background (preferentially not bright red :p). You have a different folder assigned blue & these alerts come with blue background. If you have several folders the colour acts as a cue even before you get to the headline… like an ultra-quick way to screen relevant information if you’re multi-tasking… For myself dealing in financial information (Stocks, Forex) anything that speeds up & simplifies the process of incoming real-time (or as-close-as) data is godsend
@sem, I think it’s already implemented in the form of border color customization where you can change the color and thickness of the border for different feed, play a little with the settings you’ll find it. :]
Hi Michael !
This applications is truly awesome, thanks for making it !
I was wondering if i can get any access to the source code of this project. I am a computer science student, senior year, working on my graduation project, and this exact feed notifier of you works as i want, the problem is, i want to understand how it works.
I hope you can reply me. This is much of importance to me.
Thanks !
Super program! only problem is that it doesn’t work on windows 2000.
Keep getting this error:
[code]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 47, in
File "main.py", line 33, in main
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "wx\__init__.pyo", line 45, in
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "wx\_core.pyo", line 4, in
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 98, in load_module
ImportError: MemoryLoadLibrary failed loading wx\_core_.pyd
[/code]
Any idea on how to fix this?
? Hello :)
Not able to solve or what?
Hello. I set polling interval 1 minute, but the program always notifies me 1 hour later after feed updates with new items. It’s not real-time!
What port do we need to open on the firewall in order for FN 2.5 to “NOT” ask for authentication?
Great app! I just have a couple comments/suggestions to make it even better…
It seems like on the popups, almost all of them say they occurred “9 hours ago” even though it was really only a few minutes ago. Whats up with that?
Sometimes the page numbers ( 08 of 10 ) doesn’t refresh, so I’m kind of confused how many I really have in the list.
When I hit the “X” button, I feel it should delete/forget about that popup. Could there be an option to delete a message, rather than having to wait for it to clear from the cache?
The program is great, but with compatibility with Google Reader it will be perfect. Do you plan to implement it in the future ?
Also, an “auto-hide” when some program is in fullscreen mode would be really useful.
Anyway, thanks for the app!
Great Widget!!
This is exactly what I needed, good job.
Great notifier, is there a way to save the feeds in some kind of ascii format? i saw a file feeds.dat but is in an unknown format.
Hi,
Is it possible that I see only symbols due to Chinese fonts (B5) not yet support ?
Thank you !
Edmond.
I agree if you could make some sort of smtp feature (with rules) to fire off notifications – it would be perfect.
Is there a way to text a new ebay rss feed notification to my phone?
It would be nice if it was possible to send feed notifications to iPhone/iPod touch from pc. (maybe via wifi)
Thanks for your job…
but it would be best if it was possible to
1.select area in a website and notify for text changes in that area… (some websites without rss)
2.notify for changes in latest rss item (some weblogs add text to previous item )
maybe new project!!