As a long time user of i3wm I've been frustrated by lack of bar plugins can display news headlines of my choosing, those that are available tend to use proprietary API's/feeds, hence I decided to create my own.

I3 News uses standard RSS/Atom links which get turned to rotating news headlines in the bar plugin of your choosing, app also incorporates support for scrollable snippets and handler for opening news links in browser. Currently supported i3/sway plugin list:

- i3blocks - waybar - polybar - i3status

Critique/suggestions are very welcome.

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