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About Newspipe

Newspipe is a web news reader.

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Python

Lincenses:

AGPL-3.0

More about Newspipe

Newspipe

Presentation

Newspipe is a web news aggregator.

Newspipe Home page

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;
share articles on Pinboard, Reddit and Twitter;
management of bookmarks (with import from Pinboard).

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_ENV=development
$ flask db_create
$ 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.