---
name: "straw"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "straw"
version: "0.27-0.1"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/straw"
---

# straw(1)

RSS aggregator

## NAME

straw - RSS aggregator

## SYNOPSIS

**straw**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly **straw**. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**straw** is a program that will download a number of RSS files from the Internet, and display them in an easy-to-read manner. RSS files are typically used to display headlines in news sites and to display entries in a individuals diary.

## EXAMPLES

Example RSS URLs are:

- *http://www.helsinki.fi/~pakaste/blog/flav\_rss/index.html*

  Author of Straw's Blog

- *http://www.kuro5hin.org/backend.rdf*

  Kuro5hin - Technology News and Culture

- *http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf*

  Slashdot - News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters

- *http://www.securityfocus.com/topnews-rss.html*

  SecurityFocus - Security News

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Ross Burton \<ross@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).