v2 Documentation

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Miniflux 2

Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader.
It's simple, fast, lightweight and super easy to install.

Official website: https://miniflux.app

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Feed Reader Copy Section

• Supported feed formats: Atom 0.3/1.0, RSS 1.0/2.0, and JSON Feed 1.0/1.1.
• OPML file import/export and URL import.
• Supports multiple attachments (podcasts, videos, music, and images enclosures).
• Plays videos from YouTube directly inside Miniflux.
• Organizes articles using categories and bookmarks.
• Share individual articles publicly.
• Fetches website icons (favicons).
• Saves articles to third-party services.
• Provides full-text search (powered by Postgres).
• Available in 20 languages: Portuguese (Brazilian), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English (US), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Taiwanese POJ, Ukrainian, Spanish, and Turkish.

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• Removes pixel trackers.
• Strips tracking parameters from URLs (e.g., utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, fbclid, etc.).
• Retrieves original links when feeds are sourced from FeedBurner.
• Opens external links with attributes rel="noopener noreferrer" referrerpolicy="no-referrer" for improved security.
• Implements the HTTP header Referrer-Policy: no-referrer to prevent referrer leakage.
• Provides a media proxy to avoid tracking and resolve mixed content warnings when using HTTPS.
• Plays YouTube videos via the privacy-focused domain youtube-nocookie.com.
• Supports alternative YouTube video players such as Invidious.
• Blocks external JavaScript to prevent tracking and enhance security.
• Sanitizes external content before rendering it.
• Enforces a Content Security and a Trusted Types Policy to only application JavaScript and blocks inline scripts and styles.

Bot Protection Bypass Mechanisms Copy Section

• Optionally disable HTTP/2 to mitigate fingerprinting.
• Allows configuration of a custom user agent.
• Supports adding custom cookies for specific use cases.
• Enables the use of proxies for enhanced privacy or bypassing restrictions.

Content Manipulation Copy Section

• Fetches the original article and extracts only the relevant content using a local Readability parser.
• Allows custom scraper rules based on CSS selectors.
• Supports custom rewriting rules for content manipulation.
• Provides a regex filter to include or exclude articles based on specific patterns.
• Optionally permits self-signed or invalid certificates (disabled by default).
• Scrapes YouTube's website to retrieve video duration as read time or uses the YouTube API (disabled by default).

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• Optimized stylesheet for readability.
• Responsive design that adapts seamlessly to desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
• Minimalistic and distraction-free user interface.
• No requirement to download an app from Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
• Can be added directly to the home screen for quick access.
• Supports a wide range of keyboard shortcuts for efficient navigation.
• Optional touch gesture support for navigation on mobile devices.
• Custom stylesheets and JavaScript to personalize the user interface to your preferences.
• Themes:
  • Light (Sans-Serif)
  • Light (Serif)
  • Dark (Sans-Serif)
  • Dark (Serif)
  • System (Sans-Serif) – Automatically switches between Dark and Light themes based on system preferences.
  • System (Serif)

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• 25+ integrations with third-party services: Apprise, Betula, Cubox, Discord, Espial, Instapaper, LinkAce, Linkding, LinkTaco, LinkWarden, Matrix, Notion, Ntfy, Nunux Keeper, Pinboard, Pushover, RainDrop, Readeck, Readwise Reader, RssBridge, Shaarli, Shiori, Slack, Telegram, Wallabag, etc.
• Bookmarklet for subscribing to websites directly from any web browser.
• Webhooks for real-time notifications or custom integrations.
• Compatibility with existing mobile applications using the Fever or Google Reader API.
• REST API with client libraries available in Go and Python.

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• Local username and password.
• Passkeys (WebAuthn).
• Google (OAuth2).
• Generic OpenID Connect.
• Reverse-Proxy authentication.

Technical Stuff Copy Section

• Written in Go (Golang).
• Single binary compiled statically without dependency.
• Works only with PostgreSQL.
• Does not use any ORM or any complicated frameworks.
• Uses modern vanilla JavaScript only when necessary.
• All static files are bundled into the application binary using the Go embed package.
• Supports the Systemd sd_notify protocol for process monitoring.
• Configures HTTPS automatically with Let's Encrypt.
• Allows the use of custom SSL certificates.
• Supports HTTP/2 when TLS is enabled.
• Updates feeds in the background using an internal scheduler or a traditional cron job.
• Uses native lazy loading for images and iframes.
• Compatible only with modern browsers.
• Adheres to the Twelve-Factor App methodology.
• Provides official Debian/RPM packages and pre-built binaries.
• Publishes a Docker image to Docker Hub, GitHub Registry, and Quay.io Registry, with ARM and RISC-V architecture support.
• Uses a limited amount of third-party go dependencies
• Has a comprehensive testsuite, with both unit tests and integration tests.
• Only uses a couple of MB of memory and a negligible amount of CPU, even with several hundreds of feeds.
• Respects/sends Last-Modified, If-Modified-Since, If-None-Match, Cache-Control, Expires and ETags headers, and has a default polling interval of 1h.

Documentation Copy Chapter

The Miniflux documentation is available here: https://miniflux.app/docs/ (Man page)

• Opinionated?
• Features
• Requirements
• Installation Instructions
• Upgrading to a New Version
• Configuration
• Command Line Usage
• User Interface Usage
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Integration with External Services
• Rewrite and Scraper Rules
• API Reference
• Development
• Internationalization
• Frequently Asked Questions

Screenshots Copy Chapter

Default theme:

Dark theme when using keyboard navigation:

Credits Copy Chapter

• Authors: Frédéric Guillot - List of contributors
• Distributed under Apache 2.0 License

File: client/README.md Copy Chapter

Miniflux API Client

Go client for the Miniflux REST API. It supports API tokens or basic authentication and mirrors the server endpoints closely.

Installation Copy Chapter

go get -u miniflux.app/v2/client

Example Copy Chapter

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"

	miniflux "miniflux.app/v2/client"
)

func main() {
    // Authentication with username/password:
    client := miniflux.NewClient("https://api.example.org", "admin", "secret")

    // Authentication with an API Key:
    client := miniflux.NewClient("https://api.example.org", "my-secret-token")

    // Fetch all feeds.
    feeds, err := client.Feeds()
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
        return
    }
    fmt.Println(feeds)

    // Backup your feeds to an OPML file.
    opml, err := client.Export()
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
        return
    }

    err = os.WriteFile("opml.xml", opml, 0644)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
        return
    }
}

File: contrib/docker-compose/README.md Copy Chapter

Docker-Compose Examples

Here are few Docker Compose examples:

• basic.yml: Basic example
• caddy.yml: Use Caddy as reverse-proxy with automatic HTTPS
• traefik.yml: Use Traefik as reverse-proxy with automatic HTTPS

docker compose -f basic.yml up -d

File: contrib/bruno/README.md Copy Chapter

This folder contains Miniflux API collection for Bruno.

Bruno is a lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia.

• https://www.usebruno.com
• https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

File: contrib/ansible/roles/mgrote.miniflux/README.md Copy Chapter

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Details Copy Section

Installs and configures Miniflux v2 with ansible

Works on... Copy Section

• Ubuntu (>=18.04)

Variables and Defaults Copy Section

Linux User

miniflux_linux_user: miniflux

DB User

miniflux_db_user_name: miniflux_db_user

DB Password

miniflux_db_user_password: qqqqqqqqqqqqq

Database

miniflux_db: miniflux_db

Username Miniflux Admin

miniflux_admin_name: admin

Password Miniflux Admin

miniflux_admin_passwort: hallowelt

Port for Miniflux Frontend

miniflux_port: 8080

File: contrib/sysvinit/README.md Copy Chapter

System-V init for e.g. http://devuan.org

Assumes an executable /usr/local/bin/miniflux.

Configure in etc/default/miniflux

File: contrib/thunder_client/README.md Copy Chapter

Miniflux API Collection for Thunder Client VS Code Extension

Official website: https://www.thunderclient.com

This folder contains the API endpoints collection for Miniflux. You can import it locally to interact with the Miniflux API.

File: contrib/README.md Copy Chapter

The contrib directory contains various useful things contributed by the community.

Community contributions are not officially supported by the maintainers.
There is no guarantee whatsoever that anything in this folder works.