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## 3 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.