Controlling Liferea via DBUS

Liferea provides the following DBUS interfaces which you can use to control the program from other program, scripts or the command line:

Pinging Liferea
  • Service Name: org.gnome.rss.FeedReader
  • Object Path: /org/gnome/rss/FeedReader
  • Method: Ping()
Example command line call: 
dbus-send --session --dest=org.gnome.feed.Reader \
  --print-reply=literal --type=method_call \
  /org/gnome/feed/Reader \
  org.gnome.feed.Reader.Ping
Adding Subscriptions
  • Service Name: org.gnome.rss.FeedReader
  • Object Path: /org/gnome/rss/FeedReader
  • Method: boolean Subscribe(string)
Example command line call: 
dbus-send --session --dest=org.gnome.feed.Reader \
  /org/gnome/feed/Reader \
  org.gnome.feed.Reader.Subscribe \
  string:http://osnews.com/files/recent.rdf
Changing the Online State
  • Service Name: org.gnome.rss.FeedReader
  • Object Path: /org/gnome/rss/FeedReader
  • Method: SetOnline(boolean)
Example command line call: 
dbus-send --session --dest=org.gnome.feed.Reader \
  /org/gnome/feed/Reader \
  org.gnome.feed.Reader.SetOnline \
  boolean:false