Miniflux is a minimalist web-based news reader.
- Host anywhere (shared hosting, vps or localhost)
- Easy setup => copy and paste and you are done!
- CSS optimized for readability
- Keeps history of read items
- Remove Feedburner Ads and analytics trackers
- Import/Export of OPML feeds
- Feed updates via a cronjob or with the user interface with one click
- Protected by a login/password (only one possible user)
- Use secure headers (only external images and Youtube/Vimeo videos are allowed)
- Open external links inside a new tab with a
rel="noreferrer"
attribute - Mobile CSS (responsive design)
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Basic bookmarks
- See Issues: https://github.com/fguillot/miniflux/issues
- Original author: Frédéric Guillot
- Contributors: Pull requesters and Bug reporters
- Recent version of libxml2 >= 2.7.x (version 2.6.32 on Debian Lenny are not supported anymore)
- PHP >= 5.3.7
- PHP XML extensions (SimpleXML, DOM...)
- PHP Sqlite extension
- You must have a web server with PHP installed (version 5.3.7 minimum) with the Sqlite and XML extensions
- Download the source code and copy the directory
miniflux
where you want - Check if the directory
data
is writeable (Miniflux stores everything inside a Sqlite database) - With your browser go to http://yourpersonalserver/miniflux
- The default login and password is admin/admin
- Start to use the software
You just need to be inside the directory miniflux
and run the script cronjob.php
.
Parameters | Type | Value |
---|---|---|
--limit | optional | number of feeds |
--call-interval | optional, excluded by --limit, require --update-interval | time in minutes < update interval time |
--update-interval | optional, excluded by --limit, require --call-interval | time in minutes >= call interval time |
Examples:
crontab -e
# Update all feeds
0 */4 * * * cd /path/to/miniflux && php cronjob.php >/dev/null 2>&1
# Update the 10 oldest feeds each time
0 */4 * * * cd /path/to/miniflux && php cronjob.php --limit=10 >/dev/null 2>&1
# Update all feeds in 60 minutes (updates the 8 oldest feeds each time with a total of 120 feeds).
* */4 * * * cd /path/to/miniflux && php cronjob.php --call-interval=4 --update-interval=60 >/dev/null 2>&1
Note: cronjob.php can also be called from the web; in this case specify the options as GET variables. Example: http://yourpersonalserver/miniflux/cronjob.php?call-interval=4&update-interval=60
Miniflux uses an Ajax request to refresh each subscription. By default, there is only 5 feeds updated in parallel.
Your life is cluttered.
Miniflux is a minimalist software. Less is more.
Report the bug to the issues tracker and I will fix it.
You can report feeds that doesn't works properly too.
Miniflux is tested with the latest versions of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari.
I don't use Microsoft products, then I have no idea if Miniflux works correctly with Internet Explorer.