Configuration Parameters

Miniflux can use a configuration file and environment variables.

The configuration file is loaded first if specified. Environment variables takes precedence over the options defined in the configuration file.

Configuration Options

DEBUG (deprecated in favor of LOG_LEVEL)

Toggle debug mode (increase log level).

Disabled by default.

FETCH_BILIBILI_WATCH_TIME

Set the value to 1 to scrape video duration from Bilibili website and use it as a reading time.

Disabled by default.

FETCH_NEBULA_WATCH_TIME

Set the value to 1 to scrape video duration from Nebula website and use it as a reading time.

Disabled by default.

FETCH_ODYSEE_WATCH_TIME

Set the value to 1 to scrape video duration from Odysee website and use it as a reading time.

Disabled by default.

FETCH_YOUTUBE_WATCH_TIME

Set the value to 1 to scrape video duration from YouTube website and use it as a reading time.

Disabled by default.

YOUTUBE_EMBED_URL_OVERRIDE

YouTube URL which will be used for embeds.

Default is https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/

LOG_DATE_TIME

Show date and time in log messages.

Disabled by default.

LOG_FILE

Supported values are stderr, stdout, or a file name.

Default is stderr.

LOG_FORMAT

Supported log formats are text or json.

Default is text.

LOG_LEVEL

Supported values are debug, info, warning, or error.

Default is info.

WORKER_POOL_SIZE

Number of background workers to refresh feeds. Workers fetch information of feeds from a work queue.

Default is 5 workers.

POLLING_FREQUENCY

The interval in minutes that miniflux adds qualified feeds to the work queue.

Default is 60 minutes.

POLLING_PARSING_ERROR_LIMIT

The maximum number of parsing errors that the program will try before stopping polling a feed. Once the limit is reached, the user must refresh the feed manually. Set to 0 for unlimited.

Default is 3.

BATCH_SIZE

The maximum number of feeds to send to the work queue for each polling interval.

The actual number of feeds added to the work queue is subject to the scheduler.

Default is 100.

FORCE_REFRESH_INTERVAL

The minimum interval for manual refresh.

Default is 30 minutes.

POLLING_SCHEDULER

Scheduler used for polling feeds. Possible values are round_robin or entry_frequency.

The scheduler does not alter the polling interval, instead it throttles the number of qualified feeds for polling. The feeds will be added to the work queue, when the current time exceeds the targeting refreshing time. The maximum number of feeds polled for a given period is subject to POLLING_FREQUENCY and BATCH_SIZE.

When entry_frequency is selected, the targeting refreshing interval for a given feed is equal to the average updating interval of the last week of the feed. The actual number of feeds polled will not exceed the maximum number of feeds that could be polled for a given period.

Default is round_robin.

SCHEDULER_ENTRY_FREQUENCY_FACTOR

Factor to increase refresh frequency for the entry frequency scheduler.

Default is 1.

SCHEDULER_ENTRY_FREQUENCY_MAX_INTERVAL

Maximum interval in minutes for the entry frequency scheduler.

Default is 24 hours.

SCHEDULER_ENTRY_FREQUENCY_MIN_INTERVAL

Minimum interval in minutes for the entry frequency scheduler.

Default is 5 minutes.

SCHEDULER_ROUND_ROBIN_MIN_INTERVAL

Minimum interval in minutes for the round robin scheduler.

Default is 60 minutes.

DATABASE_URL

Postgresql connection parameters. See lib/pq for more details.

Default is user=postgres password=postgres dbname=miniflux2 sslmode=disable

DATABASE_MAX_CONNS

Maximum number of database connections.

Default is 20

DATABASE_MIN_CONNS

Minimum number of database connections.

Default is 1

DATABASE_CONNECTION_LIFETIME

Set the maximum amount of time a connection may be reused.

Default is 5 minutes

LISTEN_ADDR

Address to listen on. Use absolute path for a Unix socket.

Default is 127.0.0.1:8080.

PORT

Override LISTEN_ADDR to 0.0.0.0:$PORT (Automatic configuration for PaaS).

Default is empty.

BASE_URL

Base URL to generate HTML links and base path for cookies.

Default is http://localhost/.

CLEANUP_FREQUENCY_HOURS

Cleanup job frequency to remove old sessions and archive entries.

Default is 24 hours.

CLEANUP_ARCHIVE_UNREAD_DAYS

Number of days after marking unread items as removed. Use -1 to disable this feature.

Default is 180 days.

CLEANUP_ARCHIVE_READ_DAYS

Number of days after which marking read items as removed. Use -1 to disable this feature.

Default is 60 days.

CLEANUP_ARCHIVE_BATCH_SIZE

Number of entries to archive for each job interval.

Default is 10000 entries.

CLEANUP_REMOVE_SESSIONS_DAYS

Number of days after removing old user sessions from the database.

Default is 30 days.

FILTER_ENTRY_MAX_AGE_DAYS

Number of days after which new entries should be retained. Set 7 to fetch only entries 7 days old.

Default is 30 days.

HTTPS

Forces cookies to use secure flag. Send HSTS HTTP header. Enabled automatically if the HTTP header X-Forwarded-Proto is set to https.

Default is 0 (disabled).

DISABLE_HSTS

Disable HTTP Strict Transport Security header if $HTTPS is set.

Default is empty.

DISABLE_HTTP_SERVICE

Disable HTTP service.

Default is empty.

DISABLE_LOCAL_AUTH

Disable local authentication.

When set to true, the username/password form is hidden from the login screen, and the options to change username/password or unlink OAuth2 account are hidden from the settings page.

Default is empty.

DISABLE_SCHEDULER_SERVICE

Disable scheduler service.

Default is empty.

CERT_FILE

Path to SSL certificate.

Default is empty.

KEY_FILE

Path to SSL private key.

Default is empty.

CERT_DOMAIN

Use Let's Encrypt to get automatically a certificate for the domain specified in $CERT_DOMAIN.

Default is empty.

MEDIA_PROXY_MODE

Avoids mixed content warnings for external media. Possible values: http-only, all, or none.

Default is http-only.

MEDIA_PROXY_PRIVATE_KEY

Set a custom custom private key used to sign proxified media URLs.

By default, a secret key is randomly generated during startup.

MEDIA_PROXY_RESOURCE_TYPES

A comma-separated list of media types to proxify. Supported values are: image, audio, video.

Default is image.

MEDIA_PROXY_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT

Time limit in seconds before the proxy HTTP client cancel the request.

Default is 120 seconds.

MEDIA_PROXY_CUSTOM_URL

Sets a server to proxy media through.

Default is empty, miniflux does the proxying.

METRICS_COLLECTOR

Set to 1 to enable metrics collection. It exposes a /metrics endpoint that can be used with Prometheus Monitoring software.

Disabled by default.

METRICS_REFRESH_INTERVAL

Refresh interval to collect database metrics.

Default is 60 seconds.

METRICS_ALLOWED_NETWORKS

List of networks allowed to access the /metrics endpoint (comma-separated values).

Default is 127.0.0.1/8.

METRICS_USERNAME

Metrics endpoint username for basic HTTP authentication.

Default is empty.

METRICS_USERNAME_FILE

Path to a file that contains the username for the metrics endpoint HTTP authentication.

Default is empty.

METRICS_PASSWORD

Metrics endpoint password for basic HTTP authentication.

Default is empty.

METRICS_PASSWORD_FILE

Path to a file that contains the password for the metrics endpoint HTTP authentication.

Default is empty.

OAUTH2_PROVIDER

OAuth2 provider. Possible values are google or oidc for a generic OpenID Connect provider.

Default is empty.

OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID

OAuth2 client ID.

Default is empty.

OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID_FILE

Path to a client ID exposed as a file, it should contain $OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID value.

Default is empty.

OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET

OAuth2 client secret.

Default is empty.

OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET_FILE

Path to a secret key exposed as a file, it should contain $OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET value.

Default is empty.

OAUTH2_REDIRECT_URL

OAuth2 redirect URL. This URL must be registered with the provider and is something like https://miniflux.example.org/oauth2/oidc/callback

Default is empty.

OAUTH2_OIDC_DISCOVERY_ENDPOINT

OpenID Connect discovery endpoint.

Note that the OIDC library automatically appends the .well-known/openid-configuration, this part has to be removed from the URL when setting OAUTH2_OIDC_DISCOVERY_ENDPOINT.

Default is empty.

OAUTH2_USER_CREATION

Set to 1 to authorize OAuth2 user creation.

Default is empty.

RUN_MIGRATIONS

Set to 1 to run database migrations during application startup.

Default is empty.

CREATE_ADMIN

Set to 1 to create an admin user from environment variables.

Default is empty.

ADMIN_USERNAME

Admin user login, it's used only if CREATE_ADMIN is enabled.

Default is empty.

ADMIN_USERNAME_FILE

Path to a secret key exposed as a file, it should contain $ADMIN_USERNAME value.

Default is empty.

ADMIN_PASSWORD

Admin user password, it's used only if CREATE_ADMIN is enabled.

Default is empty.

ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE

Path to a secret key exposed as a file, it should contain $ADMIN_PASSWORD value.

Default is empty.

POCKET_CONSUMER_KEY

Pocket consumer API key for all users.

Default is empty.

POCKET_CONSUMER_KEY_FILE

Path to a secret key exposed as a file, it should contain $POCKET_CONSUMER_KEY value.

Default is empty.

HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT

Time limit in seconds before the HTTP client cancel the request.

Default is 20 seconds.

HTTP_CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE

Maximum body size for HTTP requests in Mebibyte (MiB).

Default is 15 MiB.

HTTP_CLIENT_PROXY

Proxy URL for the HTTP client. For example: http://127.0.0.1:8888.

This proxy is used only when the feed has the option "Fetch via proxy" enabled.

If you prefer to have a proxy for all outgoing requests, use the environment variables HTTP_PROXY or HTTPS_PROXY, look at the official Golang documentation for more details.

Default is empty.

HTTP_CLIENT_USER_AGENT

The default User-Agent header to use for the HTTP client. Can be overridden in per-feed settings. When empty, Miniflux uses a default User-Agent that includes the Miniflux version.

Default is empty.

AUTH_PROXY_HEADER

Proxy authentication HTTP header.

Default is empty.

AUTH_PROXY_USER_CREATION

Enable user creation based on proxy authentication information.

Default is empty.

MAINTENANCE_MODE

Set to 1 to enable maintenance mode. Maintenance mode disables the web ui and show a text message to the users.

Default is empty.

MAINTENANCE_MESSAGE

Define a custom maintenance message.

Default is empty.

SERVER_TIMING_HEADER

Set the value to 1 to enable server-timing headers.

Default is empty.

WATCHDOG

Enable or disable Systemd watchdog.

Enabled by default.

INVIDIOUS_INSTANCE

Set a custom invidious instance to use.

Default is yewtu.be.

WEBAUTHN

Enable or disable WebAuthn/Passkey authentication.

Default is disabled

Configuration File

The configuration file is optional. It’s a text file that follow these rules:

Keys are the same as the environment variables described above.

Example:

DEBUG=on
WORKER_POOL_SIZE=20

Environment variables override the values defined in the config file.

To specify a configuration file, use the command line argument -config-file or -c.

You can also dump interpreted values with the flag -config-dump for debugging.

Systemd uses the file /etc/miniflux.conf to populate environment variables.