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## 1 Overview

Newsticker provides a newsticker for Emacs. A newsticker is a thing that asynchronously retrieves headlines from a list of news sites, prepares these headlines for reading, and allows for loading the corresponding articles in a web browser.

Headlines consist of a title and (possibly) a small description. They are contained in "RSS" (RDF Site Summary) or "Atom" files. Newsticker works with the following RSS formats:

- RSS 0.91 (see http://backend.userland.com/rss091 or http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-spec-0.91.html),
- RSS 0.92 (see http://backend.userland.com/rss092),
- RSS 1.0 (see http://purl.org/rss/1.0/spec
- RSS 2.0 (see http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss),

- as well as the following Atom formats:
- Atom 0.3
- Atom 1.0 (see http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-format-11.txt).

That makes Newsticker.el an “Atom aggregator”, “RSS reader”, “Feed aggregator”, or “Feed reader”.

Newsticker provides several commands for reading headlines, navigating through them, marking them as read/unread, hiding old headlines etc. Headlines can be displayed as plain text or as rendered HTML.

Headlines can be displayed in the echo area, either scrolling like messages in a stock-quote ticker, or just changing.

Newsticker allows for automatic processing of headlines by providing hooks and (sample) functions for automatically downloading images and enclosed files (as delivered by podcasts, e.g.).

Here are screen shots of the version 1.7 (current version) and some older screen shots: version 1.6, version 1.5, version 1.4 version 1.3, version 1.0.