Oksskolten is a feed reader that retrieves the complete text of articles rather than relying solely on the summaries included in RSS feeds. It uses Mozilla Readability and additional content-cleaning rules to remove unwanted page elements before storing articles for reading.
The application includes tools for summarising, translating and discussing articles with generative AI. These capabilities work with extracted article content, allowing users to explore information without switching between multiple websites. Processing is available through supported external AI providers.
Oksskolten also provides full-text search, subscription management and offline reading. Its interface offers several layouts and appearance options, while authentication features help protect access to personal reading collections.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Automatically retrieves full article text from subscribed feeds.
- Mozilla Readability and content-cleaning rules remove unwanted page elements.
- Converts extracted articles into Markdown for consistent presentation.
- On-demand article summarisation using supported generative AI providers.
- Translation tools make articles available in other languages.
- Interactive AI chat allows users to ask questions about archived articles.
- Meilisearch-powered full-text search covers stored article content.
- Adaptive feed scheduling adjusts how often individual sources are checked.
- Conditional HTTP requests and content hashing reduce redundant feed retrieval.
- Feed discovery can locate available RSS and Atom sources.
- RSS Bridge and FlareSolverr integration extends access to less conventional sources.
- Article clipping saves arbitrary URLs for later reading.
- Progressive web app provides offline access and background synchronisation.
- Password, passkey and GitHub OAuth authentication options.
- Customisable reading layouts, colour themes, fonts and code highlighting.
- MCP interface allows compatible external assistants to search and query articles.
Website: github.com/babarot/oksskolten
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Developer: babarot
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Oksskolten is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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