rsstool 1.0.0rc4 Unix (Linux) 2006 by NoisyB
This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU Public License

Usage: rsstool [OPTION] FILE(S)... URL(S)...

Read, parse, merge and write RSS (and ATOM) feeds

Supports: RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0 and ATOM 0.1, 0.2, 0.3

The RSS (or ATOM) feeds will be merged and re-sorted if you enter more than
one URL or FILEname

Options
   -u=AGENT     use user-AGENT for connecting
  --curl        use libcURL for downloading
  --wget        launch wget for downloading
  --input-file=FILE download feeds found in FILE
   -i=FILE      same as --input-file
  --log=FILE    write a log to FILE (including HTTP headers)
  --since=DATE  pass only items (of feeds) newer than DATE
                  DATE can have the following formats
                  "Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100" (RFC 822),
                  "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM", "DD MMM YYYY HH:MM",
                  or "YYYY-MM-DD"
  --fixdate     missing dates will be replaced with the current date
  --version     output version information and exit
  --help        display this help and exit

Strip & Sort
  --shtml       strip HTML code from descriptions
  --shtml2      like --shtml but keeps links intact
  --swhite      strip whitespace from descriptions
  --slf         strip line feeds/carriage returns from descriptions
  --sdesc       strip the whole descriptions from feeds
   -r           sort reverse

Output
   -o=FILE      output into FILE (default: stdout)
  --pipe=CMD    pipe the output for a _single_ item to CMD
                  for used with --html, --txt, --href or --template2, only
  --rss[=VERSION] output as RSS feed
                  VERSION=1 will write RSS v1.0
                  VERSION=2 will write RSS v2.0 (default)
  --html        output as html
  --bookmarks   output as bookmarks.html for use with Mozilla or Firefox
  --href        output only the links as plain text
  --txt         output as plain text
  --csv         output as comma-separated values CSV
  --prop        output as properties
                  Layout: NAME_NUM=VALUE
                          NAME  will be "title", "url", etc..
                          NUM   will be an integer counting the items
                          VALUE will be the content
  --template=FILE|URL parse template file and replace tags with content
                  Tags: ""   url/link of item NUM
                        "" title of item NUM
                        ""  description of item
                                                     NUM
                        ""  date of item NUM
                        ""  site where item NUM
                                                     came from
                        "" start of item NUM
                                                     will be replaced with
                                                     "" if item NUM is
                                                     empty
                        ""        rsstool notice with
                                                     version
                        ""        rsstool notice with
                                                     version and date
  --template2=FILE|URL same as --template but repeats the whole
                  template for every single item
  --sql[=VALUE] output as ANSI SQL script
                  VALUE=092       RSStool 0.9.2 db format
                  VALUE=094       RSStool 0.9.4 db format
                  VALUE=095       RSStool 0.9.5 db format
                  VALUE="current" use current db format (default)
  --sqlold      same as --sql=095
  --joomla      output as ANSI SQL script for import into Joomla! CMS
  --dragonfly   output as ANSI SQL script for import into Dragonfly CMS

Report problems/comments/ideas/whinge to noisyb@gmx.net