Miniflux – minimalist web feed reader

Miniflux is a minimalist web feed reader that emphasises readability, privacy and straightforward navigation. Written in Go, it concentrates on presenting subscribed articles without the distractions common to more elaborate news aggregation services.

The reader supports RSS, Atom and JSON Feed sources. Articles can be organised into categories, bookmarked, searched and processed with rules that retrieve the original page content or exclude unwanted material. A responsive interface adapts to desktop and mobile browsers.

Privacy protection is an important part of Miniflux. It removes tracking elements from articles, can proxy remote media and applies restrictions to externally supplied content. Users can also connect compatible reading applications through its synchronisation interfaces.

Miniflux uses PostgreSQL to store subscriptions and reading information, with an emphasis on predictable operation and modest resource requirements.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Supports RSS, Atom and JSON Feed formats.
• OPML import and export, including importing subscriptions from an OPML URL.
• Categories and bookmarks help organise feeds and interesting articles.
• PostgreSQL-powered full-text search across saved articles.
• Full-text extraction retrieves readable content from original websites.
• Custom CSS scraper rules and rewriting rules control article content.
• Regular-expression filtering can include or exclude matching articles.
• Removes tracking pixels and common tracking parameters from URLs.
• Media proxying reduces direct connections to external content sources.
• External scripts are blocked and imported content is sanitised before display.
• Responsive interface with keyboard shortcuts and touch navigation.
• Light, dark and system-following themes with serif and sans-serif variants.
• Third-party integrations can send articles to bookmarking and read-later services.
• Fever and Google Reader API compatibility enables synchronisation with other clients.
• REST API and webhooks support custom integrations.
• Authentication includes passwords, passkeys, OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.
• RSS enclosures support podcasts, videos, images and other attachments.

Website: github.com/miniflux/v2
Support:
Developer: Frédéric Guillot and contributors
License: Apache License 2.0

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