TinyFeeds

Minimal, focused GTK 4 RSS/Atom feed reader built with Rust.

Features

• View unread posts from today
• Distraction free interface that helps you focus on one post at a time
• Under 5MB binary size (goal)
• Configuration driven by ~/.config/tinyfeeds/feeds.txt

Building

Requirements

• Rust, cargo
• upx (if using the build.sh script)
• appimagetool if making an AppImage

Optimized Native Binary

Run ./build.sh in the base project directory. This will run a release build then compress it with upx. Resulting file will be target/release/tinyfeeds.

AppImage

Run cargo appimage in the base project directory. Resulting file will be target/appimage/tinyfeeds.AppImage.

FAQs

How do I add feeds?

After first starting the app, a new file will be created at ~/.config/tinyfeeds/feeds.txt. Add the URLs to RSS feeds in this file (one per line).

Can I import an OPML file?

Sure! Use this command to convert your OPML file to the feeds.txt file TinyFeeds uses:

grep -oP 'xmlUrl="\K[^"]+' input.opml > ~/.config/tinyfeeds/feeds.txt

Todo

• Ability to export an article as a markdown document
• If a story has no content, show a message "The author would like you to view this on their website" with a button
• Progressively load feeds, holy crap it's slow with just 43 feeds
• Save viewed feeds in a ~/.config/tinyfeeds/viewed.txt file
• Reset viewed feeds on new day
• Add button to open feeds.txt in $EDITOR for easy access
• Add author and URL information to post view
• Add button to open post in browser
• Support for user configured timeout
• Support for user configured theme
• Better rendering of content
  • Custom styling
  • View images
  • Change themes
  • Working hyperlinks