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Best API RSS & News Readers for self-hosting

The 21 best API rss & news readers you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

RSSHub

RSS & News Readers

Generate RSS feeds for sites that lack them

Replaces Feedly

★ 45.6k Easy setup MIT

FreshRSS

RSS & News Readers

Free, self-hostable RSS feed aggregator

Replaces Feedly, Inoreader

★ 15.7k Easy setup AGPL-3.0

Miniflux

RSS & News Readers

Minimalist and opinionated RSS feed reader

Replaces Feedly, Inoreader

★ 9.6k Easy setup Apache-2.0

RSS-Bridge

RSS & News Readers

Generate RSS feeds for websites that lack them

Replaces Feedly

★ 9.2k Easy setup Unlicense

Winds

RSS & News Readers

Beautiful open-source RSS and podcast application

Replaces Feedly

★ 9.1k Hard setup MIT

NewsBlur

RSS & News Readers

Personal news reader with training and sharing

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 7.6k Hard setup MIT

Feedbin

RSS & News Readers

Nice, simple, open-source RSS reader

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 3.8k Hard setup MIT

CommaFeed

RSS & News Readers

Google Reader-inspired self-hosted RSS reader

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 3.6k Easy setup Apache-2.0

Tiny Tiny RSS

RSS & News Readers

Web-based news feed reader and aggregator

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 3k Medium setup GPL-3.0

selfoss

RSS & News Readers

Multipurpose RSS reader and web scraping aggregator

Replaces Google Reader, Feedly

★ 2.5k Easy setup GPL-3.0

Feed reader nono Antennapod-server-Wenholt

RSS & News Readers

Minimal self-hostable RSS reader with a JSON API

Replaces Feedly

★ 1.9k Medium setup MIT

Nextcloud News

RSS & News Readers

RSS and Atom feed reader app for Nextcloud

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 993 Medium setup AGPL-3.0

RSSBox

RSS & News Readers

Generate RSS feeds for sites without native feeds

Replaces RSS-Bridge

★ 814 Easy setup MIT

FeedHQ

RSS & News Readers

Web-based feed reader with Google Reader API support

Replaces Google Reader, Feedly

★ 579 Medium setup BSD-3-Clause

Feed mixer nono Granary

RSS & News Readers

Convert between feed formats and social network data

Replaces Feedly

★ 516 Medium setup Public-Domain

FeedMixer

RSS & News Readers

Aggregate multiple feeds into one combined RSS feed

Replaces RSS Mix, Feedly

★ 237 Easy setup MIT

feed2toot

RSS & News Readers

Automatically post RSS feed items to Mastodon

Replaces IFTTT

★ 200 Easy setup MIT

Feed dashboard nono Reader-self

RSS & News Readers

PHP RSS aggregator with a Google Reader API

Replaces Google Reader, Feedly

★ 153 Easy setup MIT

Coldsweat

RSS & News Readers

Web RSS aggregator and reader with a Fever API

Replaces Google Reader, Feedly

★ 146 Medium setup MIT

TrueRSS

RSS & News Readers

Self-hosted feed reader with a customizable plugin system

Replaces Feedly, NewsBlur

★ 51 Medium setup MIT

Newspipe

RSS & News Readers

Web-based news aggregator and notification service

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 7 Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged API within the rss & news readers category. Compare them on the individual app pages for setup difficulty and resource requirements.