ak5cel / feedforest

A simple newsfeed subscription service built using Flask.

FeedForest

FeedForest is a simple newsfeed subscription service. Stay up-to-date on news/articles from your favourite sites with a single account.

Features

• Subscribe to your favourite RSS feeds, a selection of feeds from various topics is also available
• Database of articles refreshed with the latest updates every hour
• Customisable feed wall for the current contents of subscribed feeds at a glance
• Bookmark articles for later
• 'Inbox' view for all articles from each subscribed feed since the day it was selected
• Opt-in for a daily email with updates, at the time of your choice

Dependencies

• Flask-SQLAlchemy - ORM
• feedparser - To parse RSS feeds into Python dictionaries
• celery - Distributed task queue. Used for asynchronous background tasks like hourly database refreshes, and sending scheduled emails.
• Flask-Migrate - Handles database migrations using Alembic, to make changes to the schema without losing existing data
• Flask-WTF and WTForms - Form handling
• Flask-Login - Handles user logins and sessions
• Jinja2 - Template engine

Further enhancements:

• More sort/filter options
• Mark articles as 'Read' when clicked
• Support for websites that do not have RSS feeds and provide APIs instead.

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This is my very first Flask project, suggestions/advice are welcome, encouraged and much appreciated!