how to include the image of a bluesky post in FreshRSS
My favorite #RSS Reader has now a Mastodon account too:
I've blogged about how I'm using #FreshRSS to get full-text #RSS feeds – and about crowdsourcing configs that will allow folks to subscribe to more things thanks to the web scraping feature!
https://tzovar.as/fulltext-freshrss/
(Responses to this toot will also become blog comments)
I need assistance to get elfeed working with freshRSS. Going in circles at this point.
I'm running freshRSS inside Container Manager in Synology (Docker), and its up and running. I am able to log into FreshRSS, and I turned on API access (see image with url).
However when I run elfeed (see configuratins image) elfeed log says authentication error.
the password is the API password, not my user password for fresh rss, which is what I need, right?
I made a repository on #codeberg to document my own #FreshRSS settings to get fulltext feeds of different websites: https://codeberg.org/gedankenstuecke/freshrss-fulltext-settings
Feel free to make issues/PRs to add your settings to get fulltext of your favorite news pages/blogs etc!
**Setting up a RSS reading gig – selfhosted server & client**
I prefer reading news and blogs via RSS.
Until recently I used 2 apps for that: Feeder on Android and Thunderbird on Linux.
I wanted to have a central place that stores and synchronizes my RSS feeds.
Server
Mastodon friends suggested me (of course they did) self-hosting FreshRSS or Tiny Tiny RSS server.
So I created a new VM (32G disk, 4G RAM) on my Proxmox server, installed Debian 12 and then Yunohost. It sounds easy, but it took me several hours. In brief: Installing Debian was easy (for the first time), but I struggled with setting up networking (static IP). Installing Yuno was also easy, but I failed with pointing it to the right domain. Firstly I pointed it to my TLD (Top Level Domain) which was wrong, because I already have some other services using my TLD. There are some CLI tools in Yuno that allow changing its primary domain to subdomain (yunohost tools maindomain -n yuno.mydomain.info). Then I updated my DNS records for my yuno subdomain to point to my router’s IP. Then I created a new config file on my nginx reverse proxy to redirect requests to yuno server. Then I created Letsencrypt certificate for the new subdomain.
After that, installing FreshRSS was easy: I just searched for it in Yuno ‘play store’ and clicked install. I could choose between installing it under sub-subdomain or /rss folder. I’ve chosen the latter. So my FreshRSS is now accesible via https://yuno.mydomain.info/rss. Here’s the architecture sketch:
I added my RSS feeds to in and created some categories.
When I tried to access it via FeedMe (Android), it wouldn’t connect. Finally I found I have to set API password in FreshRSS for my user. It wasn’t intuitive to find out where to set the password. It’s in the Settings/Profile/External access via API:
Clients
Then I installed 2 clients: NewsFlash (Linux) and FeedMe (Android). I also installed some other client(forgot the name), but it wouldn’t connect.
Newsflash (Linux)
It works ok, but it cuts off the bottom few lines of each post.
I temporarily solved this issue accidentally by reducing line height to from 1.8 to 1.2, but the issue returned shortly after.
Feedme (Android)
It also works ok, but it has some issues with synchronization of one feed. It wouldn’t sync to FreshRSS. Then I remove it and add it again and it worked.
TL;DR
I can summarize the experience reading news via RSS with two words: clean and without distractions. Self-hosted RSS aggregator allows me better organize my RSS feeds.
I understand everybody who consumes news via FB, news webpages riddled with popups, tracking etc. because setting up and hosting RSS server-client reading gig is far from easy.
An one last thing about RSS feeds that redirect you to the web page: I’m unsubscribing immediately.
And thank you for all who provide full-text RSS feeds:
https://blog.rozman.info/setting-up-a-rss-reading-gig-selfhosted-server-client/
FreshRSS 1.27 self-hosted RSS feed aggregator adds stronger security, category search, custom favicons, and PHP 8.5 support.
https://linuxiac.com/freshrss-1-27-feed-agregator-now-supports-php-8-5/
Aside: you can read how to do this here
https://doc.wallabag.org/user/configuration/rss/
Copy the #RSS link #wallabag puts out and add it as a source in #FreshRSS. And to my surprise, it actually links to the proper article instead of linking to the internal wallabag URL. I would’ve fixed it by parsing it in #huginn though, should it’ve behaved the way I expected it to #asca #server #aside
To continue: I am also running a #wallabag server which I use to store bookmarks and interesting reading material for myself. And while working in public on a social platform, my partner recommended that I use my wallabag favorites to add to our informational feed. And the process for outputting #RSS from wallabag is very easy: I just had to generate a token for that, and then I plugged in the output RSS into our #FreshRSS backend. #server #asca
Latest addition to my #TrueNAS box: #freshRSS
It took a little fiddling; I had to create and specify directories for data, database, and extensions prior to installation, but then it worked properly. Going through my preferred news sources and seeing how much I can get out of my email inbox and into my web-based #RSS reader instead.
Capy Reader is such a sweet find. @_jocmp has done a nice job. Are you looking for an Android RSS reader? I highly recommend it. Plus a Capybara. Adorbs! https://capyreader.com/