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 Building a Desktop News Aggregator and Revamping the RSS Bandit application. 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 SourceForge 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