RSS Bandit

RSS Bandit is an open source RSS/Atom aggregator based on the Microsoft .NET framework. It was originally released as a code sample in a series of articles the Extreme XML column written by Dare Obasanjo on MSDN in 2003. The articles were and . A number of readers of the article liked the product so much that the code samples evolved into a fully featured Open Source project. It is currently hosted on and the primary contributors are Dare Obasanjo and Torsten Rendelmann

Features

Interface

The user interface is a three pane user interface modeled after desktop email readers with a tree view showing the list of feeds.The application has a number of features inspired by email readers and other RSS readers including:

• Search folders for reading all items that match a search term or just all unread items
• Import and export subscription lists as an OPML file
• Keyboard shortcuts for main functions
• Ability to download podcasts
• Automatic marking of items as read as they are scrolled past
• Search in all feeds, across all updates from subscriptions

Google Reader Integration

Users can connect their Google Reader accounts to RSS Bandit and use it as a way to read their subscriptions on the desktop instead of in a browser.This allows one to subscribe or unsubscribe from feeds, mark items as read or star them in RSS Bandit and have these changes reflected in Google Reader.

Facebook Integration

Users can connect their Facebook accounts to RSS...
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