yarr

yarr (yet another rss reader) is a web-based feed aggregator. It can be used both as a desktop application and a personal self-hosted server.

This is my personal feed reader that I use regularly that became popular with others as well. It’s written with simplicity in mind, both internally and from UI/UX perspective. It’s main features:

• Cross-platform: Windows, MacOS and Linux (GUI mode) + any OS/arch Go supports
• Responsive design suitable for desktop, tablet and mobile
• Support for all feed formats: Atom, RSS, RDF and JSON
• Readability for clutter-free reading experience
• Intuitive interface with minimal settings
• Themes (White/Beige/Dark)
• OPML import/export
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Full-text search

The project is written in Go, and the frontend is powered by Vue.js and Bootstrap. It’s very light on dependencies, with golang.org/x/net, golang.org/x/sys and mattn’s go-sqlite3 being the only external (vendored) dependencies. The rest (apart from Go’s builtin packages) is implemented from scratch. These include:

• RSS/Atom/JSON feed parsers
• subset of CSS selector
• Web router and middlewares
• HTML sanitizer and readability library (borrowed and modified from miniflux)

Source code: https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr