Features

Reader ¶

• Supported feed formats: Atom 0.3/1.0, RSS 1.0/2.0, RDF and JSON
• OPML file import/export and URL import
• Support multiple enclosures/attachments (Podcasts, videos, music, and images)
• Play videos from YouTube channels directly inside Miniflux
• Categories
• Bookmarks
• Fetch website icons (favicons)
• Save articles to third-party services
• Full-text search (Thanks to Postgres)
• Available in Portuguese (Brazilian), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English (US), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, and Turkish

Privacy ¶

• Remove pixel trackers
• Fetch original links when the feed is coming from FeedBurner
• Open external links with the attributes rel="noopener noreferrer" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"
• Use the HTTP header Referrer-Policy: no-referrer
• Image proxy to avoid mixed content warnings with HTTPS
• Play Youtube videos by using the domain youtube-nocookie.com
• Supports alternative YouTube video players like Invidious
• Block external Javascript code to avoid tracking

Content Manipulation ¶

• Fetch original article and returns only relevant contents (Readability parser)
• Custom scraper rules based on CSS selectors
• Custom rewriting rules
• Regex filter to allow or block articles
• Override default user agent to bypass websites restrictions
• Option to allow self-signed or invalid certificates (disabled by default)
• Scrape YouTube’s website to get video duration as read time (disabled by default)

User Interface ¶

• Stylesheet optimized for readability
• Responsive design (works on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices)
• No fancy user interface
• Doesn’t require to download an application from Apple/Google Store
• You could add Miniflux to the home screen
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Touch events on mobile devices
• Themes:
  • Light (Sans-Serif)
  • Light (Serif)
  • Dark (Sans-Serif)
  • Dark (Serif)
  • System (Sans-Serif) - Switch between Dark and Light themes according to system preferences
  • System (Serif)

Integration ¶

• Send articles to Telegram, Shaarli, Shiori, Matrix, Apprise, Pinboard, Instapaper, Pocket, Wallabag, Linkding, Espial, Notion, Readwise Reader or Nunux Keeper
• Bookmarklet to subscribe to a website directly from any web browser
• Webhooks
• Use existing mobile applications to read your feeds by using the Fever or Google Reader API
• REST API with clients written in Go and Python

Authentication ¶

• Username/password
• Google (OAuth2)
• OpenID Connect

Technical Stuff ¶

• Self-hosted
• Written in Go (Golang)
• Compatible only with Postgresql
• There is no dependency, only a static binary
• All static files are bundled into the application binary using Golang embed package
• Supports Systemd sd_notify protocol
• Automatic HTTPS configuration with Let’s Encrypt
• Use your own SSL certificate
• Supports HTTP/2 if TLS is configured
• Feeds are updated in the background by an internal scheduler
• External content is sanitized before being displayed
• Uses a Content Security Policy that allows only application Javascript and block inline code and styles
• Support native lazy loading for images and iframes
• Works only in modern browsers
• Follows the Twelve-Factor App principle
• Official Debian/RPM packages and pre-built binaries
• Docker image is published automatically to Docker Hub and GitHub Registry (supports ARM architectures)