FreshRSS
A self-hosted feed reader that is light enough to run on a cheap shared host and still handles hundreds of feeds.
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Package managers
- Docker Hub
docker pull freshrss/freshrss
About FreshRSS
FreshRSS aggregates RSS and Atom feeds into a web interface you host yourself. It is multi-user with an anonymous reading mode, supports custom tags, and has an API that the common mobile feed reader apps already speak, so you get phone clients without the project writing any.
It goes further than most readers on getting content in: WebSub gives instant push from compatible sources such as WordPress and Medium, and built-in XPath scraping generates a feed from a site that does not publish one. Extensions cover the rest.
Logging in can be a web form, anonymous, HTTP authentication or OpenID Connect, which makes it easy to put behind an existing single sign-on.
Strengths
- Light enough for shared hosting, yet handles hundreds of feeds
- API support, so existing mobile feed readers work with it
- XPath scraping builds a feed for sites that do not publish one
- WebSub push from WordPress, Medium and other compatible sources
Limitations
- You run it, including PHP, a database and updates
- The interface is functional rather than beautiful
- Scraping rules break when a site changes its markup
- No first-party mobile app
Details
- Pricing
- Free · Free and open source under the AGPL 3.0.
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Developer
- FreshRSS
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Self-hosted
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Following a lot of sites on your own server, with no algorithm in between
- Categories
- RSS readers
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Web & RSS); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 2 sources on file.
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