This is a personal replacement for Google reader. It's simple and suits my workflow.

See my blog post about it.

sudo npm install -g megafilter
# copy subscriptions.xml from your google reader takeout to here
node app -s sumscriptions.xml
open http://localhost:8080

The idea is that you run this on your own server. You can specify a PORT via the environment variable or --port. Setcap can be used to run from port 80 without sudo

There will be a subscriptions manager soon.

You can specify --password <password> to require auth. A --username can be set, but this defaults to the executing user.

If you want to import starred items, before the server is started, run:

megafilter-import --google-starred starred.json

using the file from the takeout.

RESTful JSON API

GET /next Get the next article. Returns article and pending count.

GET /current Get the current article (good for first load) returns article and pending count.

DELETE /queue/:id Discard an article from the queue.

PUT /publish/:id Publish an article by ID from the queue.

GET /published Given a count as parameter, return published articles. 0 Means all articles, unspecified means 30.

GET /pending Gives the current number of articles pending

DELETE /published/:id Delete an article from the published collection

POST /enqueue Remotely adds an article to the queue.

Article format

The same as the node-feedparser format.

• title
• description (frequently, the full article content)
• summary (frequently, an excerpt of the article content)
• link
• origlink (when FeedBurner or Pheedo puts a special tracking url in the link property, origlink contains the original link)
• date (most recent update)
• pubdate (original published date)
• author
• guid (a unique identifier for the article)
• comments (a link to the article's comments section)
• image (an Object containing url and title properties)
• categories (an Array of Strings)
• source (an Object containing url and title properties pointing to the original source for an article; see the RSS Spec for an explanation of this element)
• enclosures (an Array of Objects, each representing a podcast or other enclosure and having a url property and possibly type and length properties)
• meta (an Object containing all the feed meta properties; especially handy when using the EventEmitter interface to listen to article emissions)

Acknowledgements

Megafilter would not have been possible without the following awesome projects:

• node feedparser: Used to understand RSS feeds
• jQuery hotkeys: Used for the keyboard shorcuts
• Font Awesome: used for the UI graphics
• jQuery
• node restify: Used for the RESTful JSON API, and UI serving