Newspipe

Presentation

Newspipe is a web news aggregator.

Newspipe Home page

Newspipe is written in Python. The core technologies are Flask, asyncio and SQLAlchemy.

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.
user interface available with a light theme and a dark theme.

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://github.com/cedricbonhomme/newspipe
$ cd newspipe/
$ npm ci
$ poetry install --no-dev
$ poetry shell
$ pybabel compile -d newspipe/translations
$ export NEWSPIPE_CONFIG=sqlite.py
$ flask db_init
$ flask create_admin --nickname <nickname> --password <password>
$ flask run --debug
 * Debug mode: on

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
$ flask db_create
$ flask db_init
...

For production you can use Gunicorn or mod_wsgi.

License

Newspipe is under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3.

Donations

If you wish and if you like Newspipe, you can donate:

or with Bitcoin to this address:
bc1q56u6sj7cvlwu58v5lemljcvkh7v2gc3tv8mj0e

Thank you !

Contact

Cédric Bonhomme

cedricbonhomme / newspipe