NewsBlur

• NewsBlur is a personal news reader bringing people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.
• www.newsblur.com.
• Created by Samuel Clay.
• X/Twitter: @samuelclay and @newsblur.

Features

1. Shows the original site (you have to see it to believe it).
2. Hides stories you don't want to read based on tags, keywords, authors, etc.
3. Highlights stories you want to read, based on the same criteria.

Technologies

Server-side

• Python 3.7+: The language of choice.
• Django: Web framework written in Python, used to serve all pages.
• Celery & RabbitMQ: Asynchronous queueing server, used to fetch and parse RSS feeds.
• MongoDB, Pymongo, & Mongoengine: Non-relational database, used to store stories, read stories, feed/page fetch histories, and proxied sites.
• PostgreSQL: Relational database, used to store feeds, subscriptions, and user accounts.
• Redis: Programmer's database, used to assemble stories for the river, store story ids, manage feed fetching schedules, and the minuscule bit of caching that NewsBlur uses.
• Elasticsearch: Search database, used for searching stories. Optional.

Client-side and design

• jQuery: Cross-browser compliant JavaScript code. IE works without effort.
• Underscore.js: Functional programming for JavaScript. Indispensable.
• Backbone.js: Framework for the web app. Also indispensable.
• Miscellaneous jQuery Plugins: Everything from resizable layouts, to progress bars, sortables, date handling, colors, corners, JSON, animations. See the complete list.

Prerequisites

* Docker
* Docker-compose

Installation Instructions

1. Clone this repo
2. Run make nb to build all of the NewsBlur containers. This will set up all necessary databases, front-end django ap