Miniflux – minimalist and opinionated feed reader

Miniflux is a minimalist feed reader written in the Go programming language.

The software is released under an open source license.

Features include:

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.
• Internationalization support – available in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, and Russian.

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.
• Themes (black and white).

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.

Authentication

• Username/password.
• Google (OAuth2).

Other

• Cross-platform support – runs under under Linux (including multiple architectures, amd64, arm32v6, and arm64v8), and OpenBSD.

Website: miniflux.app
Support: GitHub code repository
Developer: Frédéric Guillot and many contributors
License: Apache License 2.0

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