Wisewolf

Server-based RSS newsreader, with additional image-handling features. Replacement for Google Reader.

The intent is to make Wisewolf an alternative to Tiny Tiny RSS: http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki

Current status: version 0.1.1 (alpha)

API

Wisewolf has a "REST-like" API for routine feed operations.

Requirements

• Use of a Python virtualenv environment is recommended.
• See Wisewolf-req.txt pip requirements file for Python prerequisites.
• Relies on Flask microframework and Gevent/Greenlet for asynchronous communications.
• A database. SQLite3 by default, look at supporting other DBMS (MySQL, Postgres).
• Pillow (Python Imaging Library fork) with libjpeg support for thumbnail generation.

Wisewolf requires WSGI-compliant hosting.

License

Wisewolf uses the GPL Version 3 license.

Roadmap for alpha release

For v0.1-alpha:

• Feed aggregation
• Post display
• OPML import
• Asynchronous client updates
• Refresh feeds automatically (update frequency selectable per feed) or manually.
• Favourite posts

For v0.2

• Strip web-bug images
• Post formatting via Readability
• Live update of feed display via websockets
• Optionally strip embedded/linked images to associated local galleries (see Yomiko). Useful for art sites and webcomics
• Media support for HTML5 audio/video, MediaRSS ingest
• Hotkey support
• Mobile support. Swipe between articles, feeds.

For v0.3

• Text indexing, fulltext searching via Whoosh?
• Move from category to tag system?
• Docker packaging

For v1.0

• Multi-user support
• Optional social sharing for feed items (off by default)

Possible subsequent additions

• PubSubHubBub support

Screenshot

A screenshot, because you asked. The front-end will change a great deal over coming versions.