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+# Newspipe
+
+## Presentation
+
+[Newspipe](https://gitlab.com/newspipe/newspipe) is a web-based news
+aggregator and reader.
+
+## Main features
+
+* can be easily deployed on Heroku or on your server;
+* multiple users can use a Newspipe instance;
+* a RESTful API to manage your articles (or connect your own crawler);
+* data liberation: export and import all your account with a JSON file;
+* export and import feeds with OPML files;
+* favorite articles;
+* detection of inactive feeds;
+* Pinboard and reddit;
+* personal management of bookmarks (with import from Pinboard).
+
+The core technologies are [Flask](http://flask.pocoo.org),
+[asyncio](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3156/),
+[SQLAlchemy](http://www.sqlalchemy.org)
+and [React](https://facebook.github.io/react/).
+
+
+## Documentation
+
+A documentation is available [here](https://newspipe.readthedocs.io) and
+provides different ways to
+[install Newspipe](https://newspipe.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deployment.html).
+
+Test Newspipe on Heroku:
+
+[![Deploy Newspipe on Heroku](https://www.herokucdn.com/deploy/button.png)](https://heroku.com/deploy?template=https://builds.sr.ht/~cedric/Stegano)
+
+It is important to specify an application name and the URL of your instance
+(*PLATFORM_URL*) through the Heroku form.
+
+
+## Contributions
+
+Contributions are welcome. If you want to contribute to Newspipe I highly
+recommend you to install it in a Python virtual environment. For example:
+
+
+```bash
+$ sudo apt-get install postgresql npm
+```
+
+```bash
+$ git clone https://gitlab.com/newspipe/newspipe.git
+$ cd newspipe/
+$ pipenv install
+✨🍰✨
+$ npm install
+$ cp src/conf/conf.cfg-sample src/conf/conf.cfg
+$ pipenv shell
+$ python src/manager.py db_create
+$ python src/runserver.py
+  * Running on http://0.0.0.0:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
+```
+
+## License
+
+[Newspipe](https://gitlab.com/newspipe/newspipe) is under the
+[GNU Affero General Public License version 3](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html).
+
+
+## Contact
+
+[Cédric Bonhomme](https://www.cedricbonhomme.org)