FeedNotifier

Feed Notifier is a Windows application that resides in the system tray and displays pop-up notifications on your desktop when new items arrive in your subscribed RSS or Atom feeds.

Feed Notifier is for you if you want a news aggregator that focuses on real-time feed notifications and leaves out all the other stuff that comes with most news readers.

• Supports all common RSS and Atom web feed protocols.
• Clean look and feel, doesn’t get in your way.
• Configurable polling interval for each feed.
• Configurable popup duration.
• Configurable popup size, position and transparency.
• Configurable popup border size and color.
• Popups do not steal keyboard or mouse focus from other applications.
• Popups show item age and author.
• Navigation controls in popups to view next/previous items.
• Advanced keyword filtering options.
• Supports launching from Firefox and other browsers via feed:// protocol.
• Supports enabling/disabling individual feeds.
• Deactivates when user is idle to save bandwidth and processing time.
• Supports authenticated feeds that require a username and password.
• Supports using a proxy server.
• Displays favicon for feeds when available.
• Multi-threaded feed polling.

Proposed changes in this fork

• Port code to python 3 using 2to3
• Code python 3.6 compatible
• Conda environment file with dependencies
• Run instructions
• Replace py2exe by pyinstaller
• Build instructions
• Make popups working again in Win 10
• Resolve all build dependencies
• Make it work with my custom feeds
• Ability to preload configuration from .ini
• Merge fixes from other forks
• Create msi package

Python run instructions

Have miniconda installed and added to path

git clone <repository>
cd feednotifier

conda env create -f environment.yml 
conda activate feednotifier

python main.py

Building instructions

cd feednotifier
pyinstaller build.spec
.\dist\main\main.exe

Testing with RSS feeds

http://lorem-rss.herokuapp.com/feed?unit=second

The URL entered does not appear to be a valid RSS/Atom feed

Fix from @developer0725

Many users meet invalid URL message in popup window. Because some of feed engines don't accept custom user-agent such as "FeedNotifier/2.6 +http://www.feednotifier.com/". They don't send valid xml as response for feed url. A solution is that I change user-agent to browser's user-agent. I used user-agent for Chrome.