Netflix RSS feeds in Liferea

A Tech article with View Comments posted 14 March 2007.
Tags: liferea, netflix, rss

Liferea, a good Linux RSS feed reader, has been my feed reader of choice until recently, when I switched to the excellent Google Reader. Unfortunately, Liferea sorts posts with the same date alphabetically (in a computery way) so that Netflix RSS feeds, which help you keep track of your queues, don’t sort properly in the application. That is to say, “10 – Movie A” comes before “2 – Movie B.”

My workaround is a small Liferea/Snownews extension to add leading zeros to the queue position. Simple, and it Just Works.