Display feed URL on feed screen

[Dahmon]

Hello! First off, thank you for creating this tool. Just getting this set up now, works like a treat.

Small feature suggestion, it would be useful to see (and possibly copy) the feed URL from the main screen.
I'm thinking either a title and URL section above the feed list or within the status bar where the progress bar lives.

I am not a Rust programmer, but I have dabbled a little bit. This seems like it could be a nice easy introduction, and I'd be happy to contribute.

[crocidb]

Hey @Dahmon! Thanks for you message and interest in bulletty! To be honest, that's something I thought about, just was a bit afraid of extremely long URLs breaking the nice UI or something.

If you press o when selecting an item, bulletty will try to open that in the browser, and if can't, it will show you the URL so you can open through your terminal emulator link feature, like this:

Have you checked this feature? I like the idea of another command to copy the url to the clipboard, and also to maybe automatically copy when it can't be opened in the browser.

We can do some tests displaying that either on the same line as the date/author, or in a new line in the entry list item. In the status bar could be interesting, but we'd have to add a new line entirely, because I don't think a URL could fit anywhere there at the moment.

Feel free to fiddle with it and do some tests and show some options, I'd be very happy to discuss it with some prototype. :)

[Dahmon]

Good morning!

Yes, I have used the o command to open the current article in the browser.
In particular my request is about the feed URL, not the current article (although I do think there is value in seeing the article URL also).

To provide some additional context, I have imported my feeds from NetNewsWire, and I have a couple of feeds that are generated from a third party feed creator, but I no longer need to as the original site now has a feed. Seeing the feed URL in the list would help discover which these are and replace them.

FYI there was actually a bug I discovered while importing my feed, but I need to look into it more before reporting properly. Some feeds aren't a hosted feed.rss file or equivalent, but trigger a download of the feed when you visit the page. eg. adrianroselli.com/feed.

Either way, I'll play around with this over the next few days as I get some time and will share when I have something workable.

[crocidb]

Hi @DahmonOh, sorry for the delay, I have been out these days. :)

Interesting. While not on the main TUI, bulletty has a command list (bulletty list) that will list all the feeds and their slugs. But I think that would be a good idea to extend that to show more info like their path on the filesystem and the feed URL. As an alternative, you can find all the feed information within the $HOME/.local/share/bulletty/categories/. The feed database is basically a file system. They'll be like General/a-websites-feed/.feed.toml, there you can check the url and everything else.

About the bug you mentioned, I have tested with feeds with the same configuration and all of them worked well so far, do you have a more concrete example of that happening?

Thanks! :)