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Softabar Command Line RSS Reader has following options

Softabar Command Line RSS Reader v1.1
Copyright (C) 2006 - 2007 Softabar (www.softabar.com)

Usage: rsscli.py [options] rssURL1 rssURL2 ...

Options:
-h                This help.
-f    Print feed field with specified name. Can have as many as needed.
-e    Print entry field with specified name. Can have as many as needed.
-A                Print available fields in the specified feed.
-p                Print requested key name.
-P                Print feed URL as header.
-X                Print raw XML of the feed.
-q                Do not print program header.
-I   Install license key. Use together with -E option.
-E         Email address. Use together with -I option.

When used without options raw XML of the RSS feed is printed to standard out.

The '-A' option prints out specific fields of the RSS feed that can be used with
'-f' and '-e' options. Typical output of the '-A' is below.

Softabar Command Line RSS Reader v1.0
Copyright (C) 2006 Softabar (www.softabar.com)

Feed from http://rss.feed.com/some/rss has following fields:
Use the following with -f option:
  feed
  feed.lastbuilddate
  feed.subtitle
  feed.language
  feed.links
  feed.rights
  feed.image
  feed.image.href
  feed.image.width
  feed.image.height
  feed.image.link
  feed.image.title
  feed.title
  feed.subtitle_detail
  feed.subtitle_detail.base
  feed.subtitle_detail.type
  feed.subtitle_detail.value
  feed.subtitle_detail.language
  feed.title_detail
  feed.title_detail.base
  feed.title_detail.type
  feed.title_detail.value
  feed.title_detail.language
  feed.link
  feed.ttl
  feed.rights_detail
  feed.rights_detail.base
  feed.rights_detail.type
  feed.rights_detail.value
  feed.rights_detail.language
  encoding
  bozo
  version
  namespaces
  namespaces.media
  entries
Use the following with -e option:
  updated
  updated_parsed
  links
  title
  text
  credit
  summary_detail
  summary_detail.base
  summary_detail.type
  summary_detail.value
  summary_detail.language
  summary
  content
  guidislink
  title_detail
  title_detail.base
  title_detail.type
  title_detail.value
  title_detail.language
  link
  id

The above field name are used with '-f' and '-e' options. For example, following options:
'-f feed.title -f feed.lastbuilddate -e title -e summary
prints feed title and last build date of the feed and for each item in RSS, title
and summary is printed to standard out.

'p' option prints requested item field name for easier reading and '-P' option prints title header before printing fields (this is useful if you read multiple feeds).

'-X' option prints raw XML.

'-q' option does not print program header.

'-E' and '-I' options installs license for the program. Purchase license from order page .