FreshRSS and Google Reader API support now available

[jocmp]

I’m happy to announce initial support for FreshRSS and the Google Reader API in the latest dev update. This was the most requested service from a poll I sent out several months ago. The integration offers the following features

• Fetch articles including favorites
• Mark an article as read or unread
• Mark an article as a favorite
• Add and edit feeds

This feature set is inline with the existing abilities offered for local and Feedin accounts in Capy Reader today.

I tested both FreshRSS and a separate instance of Google Reader for Miniflux. I’m sure I will have missed something about this integration, especially with other services that I don’t have access to like BazQux. Please let me know in this thread or file a bug report if you run into any issues. I’ll follow up as soon as possible.

[Alkarex]

Excellent! Feel free to let me know if you need any sparing from FreshRSS side.
I am about to add CapyReader to our list of supported clients.
Here are a few feature requests to improve the support:

• Add support for user-defined labels #531
• Fetch more articles for current feed or category #532
• Option to fetch read articles #533

[jocmp]

Hey @Alkarex thanks for reaching out! Your docs on the API were super helpful when implementing this.

I'll take a look at the tickets you linked. I definitely want to add labels at some point soon.

[jstride]

I've been using this with fresh RSS and it's my GOTO app. Both great products and now with the mark as read on scroll it's amazing.

Thank you.

[st123m123]

Hi, I'm running a FreshRSS instance locally on my homeserver. When trying to connect via http I get the following message "CLEARTEXT communication is not permitted by network security policy", I guess as I do not connect via https?

With different RSS readers (e.g. FeedMe, Read You) there is no issue connecting through http. Is there a way I could connect via http?

[jocmp]

@st123m123 which version of the app are you running? There was a bug (f08dfbc) in the network policy preventing HTTP/cleartext that should have been fixed as of 2025.01.1089.

[st123m123]

I was still using the previous version 2024.12.1087. Now updating to the latest version, it works. Many thanks