nogafam/private-reader repository overview

⁠Presentation

Private Reader is a tool that lets you display a website without ads or trackers. It makes reading articles easier by removing all sources of distraction so you can concentrate on what's important: the content.

⁠Start the software

You can start Private Reader locally. You need to have Rust installed on your computer to compile the application, or Docker if you want to use the docker version.

After cloning the repo, you can start the application as follows.

cargo build --release --features local
./target/release/private-reader

or

docker build -t user/private-reader:latest .
docker compose up -d

The application is available via a browser at localhost:8000.

To read an article, add its url as follows: localhost:8000/article_url

⁠Self-hosting

The Docker image is available here : https://hub.docker.com/r/nogafam/private-reader⁠

⁠License

Private Reader is a fork of Readable (Source code⁠). The application is distributed under the AGPL V3 license, so you can use, modify and redistribute it freely under a compatible license.

Source code is available here : https://codeberg.org/NoGafam/private-reader/⁠