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Since I'm not at my machine right now, the extra arguments might need a |
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Converted to discussion. It would be nice to improve support and documentation with respect to Windows. If you're interested in making concrete contributions it would be welcome (patches, PRs). I am not a Windows user so I have to rely on additional help here. |
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I configured this to work with my Windows machine at work so I figured I could share what I had to do to get it working. Maybe this could be added to the README? Let me know if you want a PR for this.
In short:
(setq elfeed-curl-program-name "curl.exe")(setq elfeed-curl-extra-arguments '("Lk"))Explanation:
Windows has 2 different "curl" programs; one is just "curl" which does not at all behave like the one I'm familiar with, and the other is "curl.exe" which is the one most people probably expect. You can see these differences if you type
gcm curlandgcm curl.exein Powershell (gcm is short for Get-Command).The second line are the curl arguments:
L- follow redirects. I don't know why I had to do this, but when I triedcurl.exe <url-here>in powershell many of the feeds said they were at a different locationk- makes curl skip the HTTPS secure verification step, which I had to do to get it to work with https URLsAll reactions