Open Feed is a web-based syndicated content reader, aggregator and writer. It works just like Google Reader (RIP) or other feed aggregators, but intentionally designed to satisfy the social-network experience on the independent web (see "Why does this exist?", below).
It works similar to existing RSS readers: just add a web or feed URL in the text box. You only need to create an account to sync between different browsers/devices.
- Node >= 8.16.0
- NPM >= 6.9.0
- CouchDB >= 16.04 (will need to be running in the background during development).
You will also need to add CORS to CouchDB.
https://github.com/CAYdenberg/openfeed.git
cd openfeed
npm i
npm start
So far this is a solo project so I only have a rough outline of what I'd like to do. If you're thinking of writing a PR just post an issue sketching what you'd like to do first.
I'll develop more specific contributing guidelines as it becomes necessary. For now, just be nice to me and others.
- Save for later. Instead of saving posts and marking as read/unread, put only explicitly requested posts into the user database.
- Solidify API of rss-to-json-feed. I would like the interface for this package to be an Express middleware, to return fully-valid JSON Feeds in all cases, to not rely on redirects, and to accept webpage URLs and return either the preferred feed type or a list of choices of feeds. (I would also like it to support iTunes and other Podcast RSS/ATOM feeds - possibly including YouTube, by correctly filling the
media_urldata field.) - Feed authoring. A bit of an epic but this involves allowing user to create a profile (and save it in pouchdb), and posts. Once posts are created they can be published/unpublished/discarded. Published posts will be collected and presented through a (public) server endpoint (via CouchDB calls). I'll also need some kind of WYSIWYM (probably Draft.js based).
- Handling conflicts. This will be a bigger deal once post authoring is a consideration.