Currently still in alpha.

Building (preliminary)

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential make libpurple-dev libmrss0-dev
$ sudo apt-get build-dep libpurple0
download/clone the newest libpurple-feed version
$ cd libpurple-feed
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install

Configuration

• Restart your client if you haven't already done so, ideally in debug mode (e.g. pidgin --debug)
• "Accounts" > "Manage Accounts" > "New"
• Select the PurpleFeed protocol
• Enter an account name
• Set any additional options in the "Advanced" and "Proxy" tabs
• Save the account

Usage

• "Accounts" > "Enable Account" > Enable your account
• Set your status to "Available"
• "Buddies" > "Add Buddy..."
• Select a PurpleFeed account for the new buddy
• Username is the feed's URL
• Enter an Alias if you want to
• Choose a Group or create a new one (Note: Groups will allow you to bundle different feeds together)
• Save buddy and you're done
• Note: There's currently no automated fetch & display method, you have to force it, so...
• If the buddy's status is shown as available, open the context menu (right-click on the buddy) and choose "Feed URL Test" to force a feed update

TODO / Known bugs

See Issues

Future

• Some sort of caching?
• Templates?
• Maybe port libmrss to libpurple's libxml2?
• Some custom UI dialogs?
• Proper Buddy struct?