RSS
Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader.
Reader Feed formats supported: Atom, RSS 1.0/2.0, RDF, and JSON OPML import/export Support multiple enclosures/attachments (Podcasts, videos, music, and images) Play videos from YouTube channels directly inside Miniflux Categories Bookmarks Fetch website icons (favicons) Save articles to third-party services
Privacy Remove pixel trackers Fetch original links when the feed is coming from FeedBurner Open external links with the attributes rel="noopener noreferrer" referrerpolicy="no-referrer" Image proxy to avoid mixed content warnings with HTTPS Play Youtube videos by using the domain youtube-nocookie.com Block any external Javascript code to avoid tracking
Content Manipulation Fetch original article and returns relevant contents (Readability) Custom scraper rules based on CSS selectors Custom rewriting rules
User Interface Stylesheet optimized for readability Responsive design (works on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices) Doesn't require to download an application from the App/Play Store Keyboard shortcuts Touch events on mobile devices
Integration Send articles to Pinboard, Instapaper, Pocket, or Wallabag Bookmarklet to subscribe to a website directly from any browsers Use existing mobile applications to read your feeds by using the Fever API REST API with clients written in Go and Python
Technical stuff Self-hosted Written in Go (Golang) Use only Postgres as database There is no dependency, only a single static binary Automatic HTTPS configuration with Let's Encrypt Use your own SSL certificate Supports HTTP/2.0 if TLS is configured Feeds are updated in the background by an internal scheduler External content is sanitized before being displayed Use content security policy that allows only application Javascript and block inline code and styles Works only in modern browsers
Features:
Feed and news filters: new, unread, starred, deleted (for news until restart application) User filters Proxy configuration: automatic or manual Feed import wizard: Search feed URL if site URL was entered Embedded browser (Webkit core) Mark news starred Automatic update feeds: on startup, by timer Automatic cleanup on close using criteria Enable/Disable images in news preview Ability to quickly hide feed tree (for comfortable viewing) Open feed or news in own tab Quick news filter and quick search in browser Sound and/or Popup notification on new news Show new or unread news counter on tray icon Minimize on system tray: on start, on close, on minimize Import/Export feeds (OPML-files) Portable (Windows) Free working set (Windows) Shortcuts Check for updates Cross-platform Multilingual (English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese) Open-source ;)
FreshRSS is a free, self-hosted RSS aggregator. It is quite lightweight, fast (it can manage +100k articles without complaining) and powerful (e.g. shortcuts, filters, responsive design, multi-views, multi-themes, multi-users, statistics, provides a Google Reader API, etc.)
It is able to import feeds from OPML files and / or JSON files generated by Google Reader via Takeout.
To conclude, it is still a project in active development, so feel free to give a hand to help and have a look to the demo: http://demo.freshrss.org/
Ones I've Tried
Only for Mac and IOS, but really good! It's open source and free. It can sync with Newsblur, Feedbin, and others. Using the Mac app also allows me to select multiple stories.
Obsidian has an RSS plugin and has recently been updated. The update makes it much, much more usable! I can make a list for the RSS stories I wanted to save on that day.
I gave this one a go on a whim and honestly I really like it! Open source BUT IS NOT FREE. I've been using the trial and I enjoy it! I think it also has a training feature like Newsblur does?
Pros:
- Nice interface
- Open source
- Can sync with NNW
- Has a web app (and a PWA I think)
- Gives an email for signing up for newsletter and converting them into RSS.
- Tags
- The feed seems to go much further back than Newsblur
Cons:
- Can't tag individual stories like with Newsblur
- Can't select all, but I may be able to do that through an app
Pros:
- Open source
- Freemium
- Training
- Tags, and can tag individual stories.
- Notes I think?
- Web app
- It has kind of an ugly UI, but honestly it's ugly in a charming sort of way?
Cons:
- Some feeds only show like one story when there are a lot more in the feed.
- Can't select all
- Problems with syncing with NetNewsWire
Ones I Haven't Tried
Advanced Feed Reader - Read news & blogs or any RSS/Atom/RDF source.
Feature highlights:
- Full standalone feed reader (RSS, Atom, RDF) as a Chrome and Firefox extension - no online services needed
- Extremely fast!
- Multiple viewing modes: full article view, headlines view, headlines + one article (Opera RSS reader style), newspaper view, magazine view
- Can convert partial feeds to feeds with full articles with a built-in Readability style conversion engine!
- Built-in Social Media plugin support - read content directly (without extra services or conversion) from Youtube, Youtube Search, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, VK, LinkedIn Groups, LinkedIn home feed, LinkedIn Jobs, LinkedIn hashtag feed, Yammer, Bitchute, Vimeo, SlideShare, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Rumble, Dribbble, eBay
- Built-in Rule Engine lets you define rules for filtering, border highlighting, auto-bookmarking, tagging, hiding and regexp highlighting articles. Rules also support Chrome popup notifications and sound effects.
- Article tagging and searching by a tag
- IFTTT support!
- Favicon support
- Finds feeds from web pages and makes it very easy to subscribe to new feeds
- Organizes feeds into folders (+ read all items in folder at once)
- Drag & drop support for organizing feeds and folders in the tree navigator
- Flexible "mark as read" options (when article title is shown, when article bottom is shown, manually)
- 'Show only unread items' option helps you to read only what is new
- Read any feeds that your computer can access (also in your company intranet, not only public Internet)
- User interface themes: Light, Dark, Aqua, Sepia, Chill
- Article filtering based on article age
- Custom feed specific scan interval
- Custom feed specific number of items to store
- Keyboard shortcuts (similar to Google Reader)
- Works well with high frequency update feeds
- Can import feed subscriptions from an OPML file
- Can export feed subscriptions to an OPML file
- Easy to drop inactive or broken feeds
- Article headline view for quick skimming
- Basic authentication support to read password protected feeds
- Article sharing to various social media sites like Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Reddit etc and via Gmail/Email client
- Buffer and Hootsuite support for scheduled social media sharing
- Supports offline reading
- Great for managing Youtube subscriptions!
- Supports Firefox bookmarks import (Live Bookmarks & normal feed bookmarks)
- Multilanguage support
- Discord & Slack support for Rule actions
Self-hosted and open source, but Docker really, really doesn't like me for some reason and just was not working.
Besides, I don't know if I want a self-hosted feed reader, since it seems much more convenient to have one online.
One of the most popular but not open source. Has a web app.
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Newsboat is a fork of Newsbeuter, an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. The only difference is that Newsboat is actively maintained while Newsbeuter isn't.
