Newspipe
Presentation
Newspipe is a web news aggregator.
Newspipe is written in Python. The core technologies are Flask, asyncio and SQLAlchemy.
For reporting issues, visit the tracker here: https://todo.sr.ht/~cedric/newspipe
For contributions, use the mailing list to send your patches: https://lists.sr.ht/~cedric/newspipe
The documentation is here: https://man.sr.ht/~cedric/newspipe
The official instance is here: https://www.newspipe.org
Main features
- multiple users can use a Newspipe instance;
- an API to manage feeds (you can connect your own crawler);
- data liberation: export and import your account with a JSON file;
- export and import feeds with OPML files;
- search and favorite articles;
- detection of inactive feeds;
- management of bookmarks (with import from Pinboard).
- Optional ldap authentication
Deployment
Newspipe is really easy to deploy.
Assuming you have already installed git, poetry, npm, and
Python >= 3.10, you just have to do the following:
$ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~cedric/newspipe
$ cd newspipe/
$ npm ci
$ poetry install --no-dev
$ poetry shell
$ pybabel compile -d newspipe/translations
$ export NEWSPIPE_CONFIG=sqlite.py
$ export FLASK_APP=runserver.py
$ export FLASK_DEBUG=1
$ flask db_create
$ flask db_init
$ flask create_admin --nickname <nickname> --password <password>
$ flask run
* Serving Flask app "runserver" (lazy loading)
* Environment: development
* Debug mode: on
* Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
* Restarting with stat
* Debugger is active!
* Debugger PIN: 221-873-938
If you want to use PostgreSQL you can customize
the provided example configuration file (instance/config.py):
$ sudo apt-get install postgresql
$ cp instance/config.py instance/postgresql.py
$ vim instance/postgresql.py # customize it
$ export NEWSPIPE_CONFIG=postgresql.py
For production you can use Gunicorn or mod_wsgi.
License
Newspipe is under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3.