FeedHQ is a simple, lightweight web-based feed reader. Main features:

• RSS and ATOM support
• Grouping by categories
• Awesome pagination and intelligent browsing
• Built with readability in mind
• Mobile-friendly, retina-ready
• Reading list management with Instapaper, Readability or Read It Later support
• Filter out already read entries
• Control on entries' time to live (days, weeks, months or forever)
• Nice with web servers, uses ETag and Last-Modified HTTP headers
• Handles HTTP status codes nicely (permanent redirects, gone, not-modified…)
• Hides images by default (and therefore filters ads and tracking stuff)
• Multiple user support
• PubSubHubbub support
• OPML import
• Syntax highlighting, awesome for reading tech blogs
• Keyboard navigation

Getting the code:

git clone [email protected]:feedhq/feedhq.git
cd feedhq
virtualenv -p python2 env
source env/bin/activate
add2virtualenv .
pip install -r requirements.txt

Create feedhq/settings.py and put the minimal stuff in it:

from default_settings import *

ADMINS = (
    ('Your name', '[email protected]'),
)
MANAGERS = ADMINS

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': 'feedhq',
        'USER': 'postgres',
    },
}

SECRET_KEY = 'something secret'

# For development, don't do cache-busting
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage'

TIME_ZONE = 'Europe/Paris'

EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.your_domain.com'
EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX = '[FeedHQ] '

For Readability, Instapaper and Pocket support, you'll need a couple of additional settings:

API_KEYS = {
    'readitlater': 'your readitlater (pocket) key',
}

INSTAPAPER = {
    'CONSUMER_KEY': 'yay isntappaper',
    'CONSUMER_SECRET': 'secret',
}

READABILITY = {
    'CONSUMER_KEY': 'yay readability',
    'CONSUMER_SECRET': 'othersecret',
}

Then deploy the Django app using the recipe that fits your installation (with mod_wsgi or mod_fcgi). More documentation on the Django deployment guide.

Once your application is deployed (you've run django-admin.py syncdb --settings=feedhq.settings to create the database tables), you can add users to the application. On the admin interface, add as many users as you want. When you've added some categories and feeds to your account, you can crawl for updates:

django-admin.py updatefeeds --settings=feedhq.settings

Set up a cron job to update your feeds on a regular basis. This puts the last-updated feeds in the update queue:

*/5 * * * * /path/to/env/django-admin.py updatefeeds --settings=feedhq.settings

A cron job should also be set up for picking and updating favicons (the --all switch processes existing favicons in case they have changed):

@daily /path/to/env/bin/django-admin.py favicons --settings=feedhq.settings
@monthly /path/to/env/bin/django-admin.py favicons --all --settings=feedhq.settings

And another job for checking feeds that have been muted because they were failing too much:

@daily /path/to/env/bin/django-admin.py check_defunct --settings=feedhq.settings

And a final one to purge expired sessions from the DB:

@daily /path/to/env/bin/django-admin.py cleanup --settings=feedhq.settings

Install the development requirements:

pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Run the tests:

make test

Or if you want to run the tests with django-admin.py directly, make sure you use feedhq.test_settings to avoid making network calls while running the tests.

If you want to contribute and need an environment more suited for development, you can use the settings.py file to alter default settings. For example, to enable the django-debug-toolbar:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES += (
    'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware',
)

INTERNAL_IPS = ('127.0.0.1',)

INSTALLED_APPS += (
    'debug_toolbar',
)

DEBUG_TOOLBAR_CONFIG = {
    'INTERCEPT_REDIRECTS': False,
    'HIDE_DJANGO_SQL': False,
}

When running django-admin.py updatefeeds on your development machine, make sure you have DEBUG = True in your settings to avoid making PubSubHubbub subscription requests without any valid callback URL.