Retrieving News

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.