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Asked: 2026-06-03T00:28:09+00:00

I’m trying to use Newsticker.el also on some internal rss feeds which require login

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I’m trying to use Newsticker.el also on some internal rss feeds which require login credentials. Since all what newsticker does is getting wget to fetch the feeds I tought it would be possible to simply define the user name and password in the wget confiuration part of newsticker.el

So I configured the following in my init.el

'(newsticker-url-list (quote (("RSS FEED" "https://to.feed.com/timeline?format=rss"
              nil nil ("--user=<username>" "--password=<password>" "-q" "-O" "-")))

Feeding the --user and --password options directly to wget works fine but not not within the newsticker.el setup. Anyone tried something similar before?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Newsticker can use wget, indeed, but it can also use Emacs’s URL library instead. So you might want to check newsticker-retrieval-method to see which one is used.

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