ncarlier/reader repository overview

⁠NUNUX Reader

The super-fast-minimalist-nosql-opensource Google Reader revival.

⁠:warning::warning::warning:This project is no longer maintained:warning::warning::warning:

Please consider to use another news reader such as readflow⁠!

Features:

• Faster than light thanks to Redis and Node.js
• Dynamic GUI thanks to AngularJS
• Responsive Web Design
• Login with Google OAuth2 or Mozilla Persona
• OPML import/export
• Manage subscriptions
• Save articles in Nunux Keeper⁠, Pocket or Dropbox
• Keep article as not read
• Powerfull reactive aggregator daemon
• Support of PubSubHubbud
• RESTFul JSON API⁠
• 100% Javascript!

⁠Installation guide with Docker (the recommended way)

⁠Prerequisites

• docker⁠

⁠Start the Redis server

docker run --name redis -d redis

⁠Configuration

You can configure the server by setting environment variables:

⁠Authentication configuration

Configuration needed to login with Google:

Configuration needed to delegate authentication to an upstream proxy (NGINX, Apache, Traefik, ...):

Example of configuration with NGINX:

server {
  listen      80;
  server_name nunux-reader;
  access_log  /var/log/nginx/nunux-reader.access.log;

  auth_basic_user_file  /etc/nginx/passwd;
  auth_basic            "Restricted";

  location / {
    proxy_set_header X-WEBAUTH-USER $remote_user;
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
    allow 127.0.0.1;
    deny all;
    satisfy any;
  }
}

⁠Archiver configuration

Configuration needed to save articles into Pocket:

Configuration needed to save articles into Dropbox:

Configuration needed to save articles into Nunux Keeper⁠:

⁠Start the Web Site

Configure the application according your needs by editing "./etc/default/dev.ev" file. (see ./etc/default/dev.env in this repository for more details)

Then start the Web Server:

make start

OR

docker run \
    --rm \
    --name reader-server \
    --link redis:db \
    --env-file ./etc/default/dev.env \
    -p 3000:3000
    -i -t \
    ncarlier/reader

Go to http://localhost:3000⁠ and the magic happens.

⁠Start the feed updater daemon

This daemon is responsible to fetch articles of the registered subscriptions.

docker run \
    --rm \
    --name reader-feed-updater \
    --link redis:db \
    --env-file ./etc/default/dev.env \
    -i -t \
    ncarlier/reader run feed-updater

⁠Start the timeline updater daemon

This daemon is responsible to update user's timelines.

docker run \
    --rm \
    --name reader-timeline-updater \
    --link redis:db \
    --env-file ./etc/default/dev.env \
    -i -t \
    ncarlier/reader run timeline-updater

⁠Installation guide from scratch (the -not so- hard way)

⁠Prerequisites

• git⁠
• nodejs⁠ v0.10.x
• redis⁠ v2.2

⁠Install Git, Node.JS and Redis (on Debian)

sudo aptitude install git nodejs redis-server

⁠Install Grunt

sudo npm install -g grunt-cli

⁠Install Web Site

cd /opt_
git clone [email protected]:ncarlier/nunux-reader.git
cd nunux-reader
npm install

⁠Run Web Site

#!/bin/sh
# See etc/default/dev.env for environment configuration.
source ./etc/default/dev.env
npm start 2>&1 >> app.log

⁠Jobs

• clean-db.js: Clean database (aka remove old articles). Usage:

./server/daemon/db-cleaner.js -v --days 30

• feed-updater.js: Update feeds content. It's a daemon. Use CTRL+C to stop. Usage:

./server/daemon/feed-updater.js -v

• timeline-updater.js: Update users timelines. It's a daemon. Use CTRL+C to stop. Usage:

./server/daemon/timeline-updater.js -v

NUNUX Reader

Copyright (c) 2013 Nicolas CARLIER (https://github.com/ncarlier⁠)

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/⁠.