RSS-Bridge

RSS-Bridge is an application that generates RSS and Atom feeds for websites that don’t provide them natively. It acts as a bridge between services without feeds and your RSS reader, allowing you to follow content from social media platforms, forums, and other websites through standard feed formats.

Miniflux can use RSS-Bridge to automatically create feed links when it cannot find a feed at the provided URL. When you add a subscription and Miniflux doesn’t detect a native feed, it can attempt to generate one through your configured RSS-Bridge instance.

Configuring RSS-Bridge integration

To activate RSS-Bridge connection go to Settings → Integrations → RSS-Bridge section and provide link to your server instance and credential details.

Authentication

RSS-Bridge supports authentication to restrict access to your instance. Miniflux can work with authenticated RSS-Bridge instances in two ways:

Method 1: Token Authentication

1. Configure authentication in your RSS-Bridge instance by setting up a token in the RSS-Bridge configuration file.
2. In Miniflux, enter your RSS-Bridge authentication token in integration settings.

Method 2: HTTP Basic Authentication

1. Configure authentication in your RSS-Bridge instance by username and password in the RSS-Bridge configuration file.
2. In Miniflux, embed these credentials directly in RSS-Bridge server URL: https://username:password@rss-bridge-example.

Notes

• Miniflux creates the RSS-Bridge URL when the feed is initially generated. This link includes the instance address and credentials. If you need to change these settings later, you must update the feed URL directly, as changes in integration settings won’t affect existing feeds.
• Miniflux relies on RSS-Bridge’s internal functionality to detect whether it can generate a feed URL. Bridge configurations may not include all possible URL patterns, so you might need to create some feeds manually in RSS-Bridge.
• Bridges can include additional settings to customize their content. You may want to create feeds manually in RSS-Bridge to modify default settings and fine-tune the output.