Miniflux

Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader. It's simple, fast, lightweight and super easy to install.

Official website: https://miniflux.app

Features

Feed Reader

• Supported feed formats: Atom 0.3/1.0, RSS 1.0/2.0, and JSON Feed 1.0/1.1.
• OPML file import/export and URL import.
• Supports multiple attachments (podcasts, videos, music, and images enclosures).
• Plays videos from YouTube directly inside Miniflux.
• Organizes articles using categories and bookmarks.
• Share individual articles publicly.
• Fetches website icons (favicons).
• Saves articles to third-party services.
• Provides full-text search (powered by Postgres).
• Available in 20 languages: Portuguese (Brazilian), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English (US), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Taiwanese POJ, Ukrainian, Spanish, and Turkish.

Privacy and Security

• Removes pixel trackers.
• Strips tracking parameters from URLs (e.g., utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, fbclid, etc.).
• Retrieves original links when feeds are sourced from FeedBurner.
• Opens external links with attributes rel="noopener noreferrer" referrerpolicy="no-referrer" for improved security.
• Implements the HTTP header Referrer-Policy: no-referrer to prevent referrer leakage.
• Provides a media proxy to avoid tracking and resolve mixed content warnings when using HTTPS.
• Plays YouTube videos via the privacy-focused domain youtube-nocookie.com.
• Supports alternative YouTube video players such as Invidious.
• Blocks external JavaScript to prevent tracking and enhance security.
• Sanitizes external content before rendering it.
• Enforces a Content Security and a Trusted Types Policy to only application JavaScript and blocks inline scripts and styles.

Bot Protection Bypass Mechanisms

• Optionally disable HTTP/2 to mitigate fingerprinting.
• Allows configuration of a custom user agent.
• Supports adding custom cookies for specific use cases.
• Enables the use of proxies for enhanced privacy or bypassing restrictions.

Content Manipulation

• Fetches the original article and extracts only the relevant content using a local Readability parser.
• Allows custom scraper rules based on CSS selectors.
• Supports custom rewriting rules for content manipulation.
• Provides a regex filter to include or exclude articles based on specific patterns.
• Optionally permits self-signed or invalid certificates (disabled by default).
• Scrapes YouTube's website to retrieve video duration as read time or uses the YouTube API (disabled by default).

User Interface

• Optimized stylesheet for readability.
• Responsive design that adapts seamlessl