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- [Neko](#neko)
- [Features](#features)
- [Screenshots](#screenshots)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Requirements](#requirements)
- [Building](#building)
- [Dependencies](#dependencies)
- [Configuration](#configuration)
- [Storage](#storage)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Web Interface](#web-interface)
- [Add Feed](#add-feed)
- [Crawl Feeds](#crawl-feeds)
- [Export](#export)
- [All Command Line Options](#all-command-line-options)
- [Configuration File](#configuration-file)
- [TODO](#todo)
- [History](#history)
- [Early 2017](#early-2017)
- [July 2018 -- v0.2](#july-2018----v02)
- [Feedback](#feedback)
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# Neko
`neko` is a self-hosted, rss reader focused on simplicity and efficiency.
Backend is written in `Go` and there is a simple javascript frontend and cat ears.
*note: the cat ears are in your mind*
## Features
* limited features (#1 feature)
* keyboard shortcuts
* **j** - next item
* **k** - previous item
* that's all you should ever need
* automatically marks items read in an infinite stream of never-ending content (until you run out of content and it ends)
* full text search
* scrapes full text of pages on demand
## Screenshots
# Installation
## Requirements
If you are using a binary, no dependencies!
NOTE: I haven't put up any binaries yet.
## Building
### Dependencies
* [Go](https://golang.org)
* [go-sqlite3](https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3)
* [sqlite](https://sqlite.org/index.html)
* [gcc](https://gcc.gnu.org)
$ go get adammathes.com/neko
This will download `neko`, dependencies, and build them all in `$GOPATH/src/`. By default this should be something like `$HOME/go/src/`.
A `neko` binary should now be in `$GOPATH/bin/`. By default this is usually `$HOME/go/bin/`
# Configuration
Everything can handled with a few command line flags. You shouldn't need to change the defaults most of the time.
You can also set options using a configuration file [`yaml`](http://yaml.org), described at the end of this README (but you probably don't need to.)
## Storage
By default `neko` will create the file `neko.db` in the current directory for storage.
You can override the location of this database file with the `--database` command line option or `-d` short option.
$ neko --database=/var/db/neko.db --add=http://trenchant.org/rss.xml
which is equivalent to --
$ neko -d /var/db/neko.db --add=http://trenchant.org/rss.xml
For expert users -- this is a [SQLite](https://sqlite.org/) database and can be manipulated with standard sqlite commands --
$ sqlite3 neko.db .schema
-- will print out the database schema.
# Usage
## Web Interface
You can do most of what you need to do with `neko` from the web interface, which is what `neko` does by default.
$ neko
`neko` web interface should now be available at `127.0.0.1:4994` -- opening a browser up to that should show you the interface.
You can specify a different port using the `--http` option.
$ neko --http=9001
If you are hosting on a publicly available server instead of a personal computer, you can protect the interface with a password flag --
$ neko --password=rssisveryimportant
## Add Feed
You can add feeds directly from the command line for convenience --
$ neko --add=http://trenchant.org/rss.xml
## Crawl Feeds
Update feeds from the command line with --
$ neko --update
This will fetch, download, parse, and store in the database your feeds.
## Export
Export de facto RSS feed standard OPML from the command line with --
$ neko --export=opml
Change `opml` to `text` for a simple list of feed URLs, or `json` for JSON formatted output.
Export is also available in the web interface.
Import of OPML and other things is a TODO item.
# All Command Line Options
View all command line options with `-h` or `--help`
$ neko -h
Usage of neko:
-a, --add http://example.com/rss.xml
add the feed at URL http://example.com/rss.xml
-c, --config string
read configuration from file
-d, --database string
sqlite database file
-x, --export string
export feed. format required: text, json or opml
-h, --help
print usage information
-s, --http int
HTTP port to serve on
-i, --imageproxy
rewrite and proxy all image requests for privacy (experimental)
-m, --minutes int
minutes between crawling feeds
-p, --password string
password to access web interface
-u, --update
fetch feeds and store new items
-v, --verbose
verbose output
These are POSIX style flags so --
$ neko --minutes=120
is equivalent to
$ neko -m 120
# Configuration File
For convenience, you can specify options in a configuration file.
$ neko -c /etc/neko.conf
A subset of the command line options are supported in the configuration file, with the same semantics --
* database
* http
* imageproxy
* minutes
* password
For example --
```
database: /var/db/neko.db
http: 9001
imageproxy: true
minutes: 90
password: VeryLongRandomStringBecauseSecurityIsFun
```
# TODO
* manually initiate crawl/refresh from web interface (done: /crawl/)
* auto-refresh feeds from web interface (wip: but may not be working right)
* import
* mark all as read
* rewrite frontend in a modern js framework
* prettify interface
* cross-compilation of binaries for "normal" platforms
# History
## Early 2017
I decided I didn't like the [original version of this that was python and mongo](https://github.com/adammathes/neko_v1) so rewrote it. I wanted to learn some Go. So assume the code is not great since I don't know what I'm doing even more so than normal.
The Javascript frontend is still the same, I keep saying I will rewrite that too since it's old backbone.js code but it still seems to mostly work. It's not very pretty though.
## July 2018 -- v0.2
Significant changes to simplify setup, configuration, usage. The goal was typing `neko` should be all you need to do to get started and use the software.
* removed MySQL requirement (eliminating a ton of configuration and complexity)
* added SQLite support (easier!)
* auto-initialization of database file with embedded schema
* removed json-formatted config file -- all options are command line options
* `neko` runs web server by default
* `neko` server crawls feeds regularly rather than requiring cron
# Feedback
Pull requests and issues are welcomed at https://github.com/adammathes/neko
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