NUNUX Reader

The super-fast-minimalist-nosql-opensource Google Reader revival.

⚠️⚠️⚠️This project is no longer maintained⚠️⚠️⚠️

Please consider to use another news reader such as readflow!

Features:

Faster than light thanks to Redis and Node.js
Dynamic GUI thanks to AngularJS
Responsive Web Design
Login with Google OAuth2 or Mozilla Persona
OPML import/export
Manage subscriptions
Save articles in Nunux Keeper, Pocket or Dropbox
Keep article as not read
Powerfull reactive aggregator daemon
Support of PubSubHubbud
RESTFul JSON API
100% Javascript!

Installation guide with Docker (the recommended way)

Prerequisites

docker

Start the Redis server

docker run --name redis -d redis

Configuration

You can configure the server by setting environment variables:

Variable	Default	Description
`APP_PORT`	`3000`	Server port
`APP_REALM`	`http://localhost`	Public URL used for callbacks (AuthN and PSHB)
`APP_REDIS_URL`	`redis://localhost:6379`	Database URI
`APP_DAYS_TO_KEEP`	`30`	Number of days to keep an article in the database
`APP_PSHB_ENABLED`	`false`	Feature flag to activate PubSubHubBud support
`APP_AUTO_GRANT_ACCESS`	`true`	Feature flag to activate automatic user registration
`APP_SESSION_SECRET`	`NuNUXReAdR_`	Secret key to encode the session cookie
`APP_ADMIN`	empty	Comma-separated list of user id that have the admin role
`APP_EMBEDDED_DAEMONS`	empty	List of daemon embedded with the server (not recommended for production)

Authentication configuration

Configuration needed to login with Google:

Variable	Default	Description
`APP_GOOGLE_KEY`	empty	Google OAuth key
`APP_GOOGLE_SECRET`	empty	Google OAuth secret key

Configuration needed to delegate authentication to an upstream proxy (NGINX, Apache, Traefik, ...):

Variable	Default	Description
`APP_AUTH_PROXY_HEADER`	empty	Header's name used to extract username (ex: `x-webauth-user`)

Example of configuration with NGINX:

server {
  listen      80;
  server_name nunux-reader;
  access_log  /var/log/nginx/nunux-reader.access.log;

  auth_basic_user_file  /etc/nginx/passwd;
  auth_basic            "Restricted";

  location / {
    proxy_set_header X-WEBAUTH-USER $remote_user;
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
    allow 127.0.0.1;
    deny all;
    satisfy any;
  }
}

Archiver configuration

Configuration needed to save articles into Pocket:

Variable	Default	Description
`APP_POCKET_KEY`	empty	Pocket key

Configuration needed to save articles into Dropbox:

Variable	Default	Description
`APP_DROPBOX_KEY`	empty	Dropbox key
`APP_DROPBOX_SECRET`	empty	Dropbox secret

Configuration needed to save articles into Nunux Keeper:

Variable	Default	Description
`APP_KEEPER_V2_URL`	empty	Nunux Keeper API URL
`APP_KEEPER_V2_KEY`	empty	Nunux Keeper key
`APP_KEEPER_V2_SECRET`	empty	Nunux Keeper secret

Start the Web Site

Configure the application according your needs by editing "./etc/default/dev.ev" file. (see ./etc/default/dev.env in this repository for more details)

Then start the Web Server:

make start

docker run \
    --rm \
    --name reader-server \
    --link redis:db \
    --env-file ./etc/default/dev.env \
    -p 3000:3000
    -i -t \
    ncarlier/reader

Go to http://localhost:3000 and the magic happens.

Start the feed updater daemon

This daemon is responsible to fetch articles of the registered subscriptions.

docker run \
    --rm \
    --name reader-feed-updater \
    --link redis:db \
    --env-file ./etc/default/dev.env \
    -i -t \
    ncarlier/reader run feed-updater

Start the timeline updater daemon

This daemon is responsible to update user's timelines.

docker run \
    --rm \
    --name reader-timeline-updater \
    --link redis:db \
    --env-file ./etc/default/dev.env \
    -i -t \
    ncarlier/reader run timeline-updater

Installation guide from scratch (the -not so- hard way)

Prerequisites

git
nodejs v0.10.x
redis v2.2

Install Git, Node.JS and Redis (on Debian)

sudo aptitude install git nodejs redis-server

Install Grunt

sudo npm install -g grunt-cli

Install Web Site

cd /opt_
git clone git@github.com:ncarlier/nunux-reader.git
cd nunux-reader
npm install

Run Web Site

#!/bin/sh
# See etc/default/dev.env for environment configuration.
source ./etc/default/dev.env
npm start 2>&1 >> app.log

Jobs

clean-db.js: Clean database (aka remove old articles). Usage:

./server/daemon/db-cleaner.js -v --days 30

feed-updater.js: Update feeds content. It's a daemon. Use CTRL+C to stop. Usage:

./server/daemon/feed-updater.js -v

timeline-updater.js: Update users timelines. It's a daemon. Use CTRL+C to stop. Usage:

./server/daemon/timeline-updater.js -v

NUNUX Reader

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.