fomo

A personal newsreader.

Features

• Subscribe to RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds
• Read articles in a clean, distraction-free interface
• Manually mark articles as read, without doom-scrolling
• Bookmark articles for later
• Auto-update feeds on a schedule, no slot machine pull-to-refresh
• Dark mode for those late-night reading sessions
• Self-hosted: no ads, no tracking, no paywalls
• No JavaScript: just server-rendered HTML

Usage

Use the docker image from ghcr.io/cugu/fomo:latest, mount a custom configuration file to /app/fomo/config.json, mount a volume to /app/fomo/data to store the database, set the FOMO_PASSWORD environment variable to set the password for the service, and expose the service on port 8080, e.g.:

docker run -d \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -v ./config.json:/app/fomo/config.json \
  -v ./fomodata:/app/fomo/data \
  -e FOMO_PASSWORD=yourpassword \
  ghcr.io/cugu/fomo:latest

Configuration

The configuration file is a JSON file with the structure shown below.

Warning

Comments are not allowed in the JSON file, they are only shown here for clarity.

{
  // URL where the service is hosted
  "base_url": "http://localhost:8080",
  // Port to listen on
  "port": 8080,
  // Times to update feeds
  "update_times": [
    7,
    16
  ],
  // List of feeds to subscribe to
  "feeds": {
    // simple RSS feed
    "xkcd.com": {
      "type": "rss",
      "url": "https://xkcd.com/rss.xml"
    },
    // lobste.rs feed with custom type
    "lobste.rs": {
      "type": "lobsters"
    },
    // rss feed, with fetching of the linked content
    "news.ycombinator.com": {
      "type": "rss",
      "url": "https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=200",
      "fetch_link_content": true
    }
  }
}

Screenshots

List of articles

Article view