FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator.
It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Syndication – follow websites, podcasts and video channels in a single place.
- Reader – read your articles directly in FreshRSS.
- Search – search and save queries for quick access.
- Web scraping – generate feeds by scraping external websites.
- Feeds generation – generate new feeds based on your filters.
- OPML – import and export your feeds with OPML.
- WebSub – stay connected to your feeds in real-time.
- Configurable – adapt to your needs thanks to a lot of options.
- Mobile – follow your feeds with or without a third-party application.
- Fast & efficient – manages 1M+ articles and 50k+ feeds.
- Themes & extensions – customize FreshRSS with themes and extensions.
- Internationalization support – translations for more than 15 languages.
Website: freshrss.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Alexandre Alapetite, Marien Fressinaud
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

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