Feeds Fun

News reader with tags & AI. Self-hosted, if it is your way.

• Reader automatically assigns tags to news.
• You create rules to score news by tags.
• Filter and sort news how you want ⇒ read only what you need.

Site: feeds.fun with curated collections of feeds that are tagged for free.

Blog: blog.feeds.fun

Screenshots

Features

• Multi-/single-user.
• Feeds management.
• Automatic tag assignment for every news entry.
• Rules to score news by tags.
• Filter news: exclude news by tags, show only news with tags.
• Sort news by score, date, etc.
• Track news you've read already.
• A lot of other features are comming.

Motivation

I've subscribed to a lot of news feeds and want to read only the most interesting & important from them.

I did not find an open-source solution that suited my needs => decided to create my own.

Official site

The last stable version is always available at https://feeds.fun/

It is free and should be stable: no database resets, minimal downtime, etc.

Just do not forget to set up your OpenAI or Gemini API key to access the full power of tags generation.

Self-hosted version

• Backend is accessible as ffun package on PyPI.
• Frontend is accessible as feeds-fun package on NPM.
• Use the same versions for front and back.

Alternatively, you can install from tags in this repo.

There are no official docker images yet. Feeds

Configuration

All configs can be redefined via environment variables or .env file in the working directory.

You can print actual backend config values with:

ffun print-configs

The output is not as pretty and ready for copying as it should be, but I'll improve it later.

All actual frontend configs can be found here.

Format of environment variables:

• For backend: FFUN_<component>_<option> or FFUN_<component>_<option>__<suboption>.
• For frontend: VITE_FFUN_<component>_<option> or VITE_FFUN_<component>_<option>__<suboption> — must be set on build time!

For example:

FFUN_AUTH_MODE="supertokens"

FFUN_LIBRARIAN_OPENAI_GENERAL_PROCESSOR__ENABLED="True"

Configure Tag Processors

Feeds Fun uses different tag processors to detect tags for news entries. Some of them are simple, like set domain as tag, some of them are more complex, like use LLM to detect all possible tags.

Processors are configured via a separate configuration file.

You can find an example of configuration in the code.

To pass your own configuration, set FFUN_LIBRARIAN_TAG_PROCESSORS_CONFIG to the path to your configuration file.

To configure LLM processors, you may be interested in configuring models. You can find an example of it in the code. It mostly the slice of info from the official OpenAI/Google documentation.

To pass your own configuration, set FFUN_LLMS_FRAMEWORK_MODELS_CONFIG to the path to your configuration file.

Currently implemented processors:

• domain — extracts domain and subdomains from URL and saves them as tags.
• native_tags — saves tags that are received with the feed entry.
• llm_general — asks ChatGPT/GeminiGPT to detect tags. Currently, it is the most powerful processor. Must-have if you want to use Feed Fun in full power.
• upper_case_title — detects news with uppercase titles and marks them with upper-case-title tag.

LLM Processors

LLM tag processors are the primary source of tags for Feeds Fun.

Currently, we support two API providers: OpenAI (ChatGPT) and Google (Gemini). In the future, there will be more, including self-hosted.

By default, LLM processors will skip feeds from default collections and use user API keys to process their news.

You can set the API key for collections in the processor's config.

DANGER!!! You can set the "general API key" in the processor's config; in this case, the processor will use it to process ALL news. It may be convenient if you self-host the service and fully control who has access to it.

Backend

pip install ffun

# run DB migrations
ffun migrate

# run API server
uvicorn ffun.application.application:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 --workers 1

# run workers
ffun workers --librarian --loader

The minimal configuration for the backend:

# DB connection parameters have default values,
# but it is better to redefine them
FFUN_POSTGRESQL__HOST=...
FFUN_POSTGRESQL__USER=...
FFUN_POSTGRESQL__PASSWORD=...
FFUN_POSTGRESQL__DATABASE=...

FFUN_ENVIRONMENT="prod"

# Required for API server.
FFUN_ENABLE_API="True"

# Set if you want multi-user setup.
FFUN_ENABLE_SUPERTOKENS="True"
FFUN_API_PORT="443"
FFUN_APP_DOMAIN=...
FFUN_APP_PORT="443"
FFUN_AUTH_MODE: "supertokens"
FFUN_AUTH_SUPERTOKENS__COOKIE_SECURE="True"
FFUN_AUTH_SUPERTOKENS__API_KEY=...
FFUN_AUTH_SUPERTOKENS__CONNECTION_URI=...

# Has default value for development environment.
# I strongly recommend to redefine it because of potential security issues.
FFUN_USER_SETTINGS_SECRET_KEY=...

If you want to periodically clean your database from old entries, add the call ffun cleaner clean to your cron tasks. It is recommended.

More details see in the architecture section.

Frontend

If you find this approach too strange, just use tags frontend-<version>.

npm init -y
npm install feeds-fun
npm install --prefix ./node_modules/feeds-fun

# Set environment variables before next step!!!

# Build static content.
npm run build-only --prefix ./node_modules/feeds-fun

cp -r ./node_modules/feeds-fun/dist ./wherever-you-place-static-content

The minimal configuration for the frontend:

VITE_FFUN_AUTH_MODE="supertokens" # or "single_user"
VITE_FFUN_APP_DOMAIN=...
VITE_FFUN_APP_PORT=...

Architecture

ASGI application, which you run with uvicorn (in the example) provides only HTTP API to access the data and change user-related properties.

All actual work is done by workers, which you run with ffun workers command.

Loader worker

Simply loads & parses feeds.

Can use HTTP proxies, see configuration options

Librarian worker

Analyse feeds' entries and assign tags to them.

All logic is split between tag processors. Each processor implements a single approach to produce tags that can be enabled/disabled via configuration.

Development

Run

git clone git@github.com:Tiendil/feeds.fun.git

cd ./feeds.fun

Build some docker images

./bin/build-local-containers.sh

Start the API server and frontend:

docker compose up -d

The site will be accessible at http://localhost:5173/

Start workers:

./bin/backend-utils.sh poetry run ffun workers --librarian --loader

Utils

List all backend utils:

./bin/backend-utils.sh poetry run ffun --help

DB migrations

Apply migrations:

./bin/backend-utils.sh poetry run ffun migrate

Create new migration:

./bin/backend-utils.sh poetry run yoyo new --message "what you want to do" ./ffun/<component>/migrations/

Pay attention. There are different directories layouts in the repository and in the docker containers => paths for migrations should be with only a single ffun directory.

Upgrade to new versions

You should always keep versions of the backend and frontend in sync.

Open CHANGELOG and look at which versions require DB migrations. You should upgrade to the first of them, run migrations and only after that upgrade to the next version.

Algorithm:

• Stop services.
• Install the next version.
• Run ffun migrate.
• Start services. You can skip this step if you plan to upgrade to the next version immediately.

Also, pay attention to breaking changes and notes in the CHANGELOG.