Freshrss: Export raw list of links/articles?

[winteriscariot]

I want to feed the links from FreshRSS into an archiver (archivebox) in order to properly get around paywalls. I know FreshRSS has native support for "css paths" in order to pull the full article, but I'd like to rely on a external program for extended archiving functions. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any CLI functions for exporting articles, only lists of feeds.

Is there a way that I can export a list of unread articles? This way I can feed it directly to my archiver. Even if they were exported in some markup i could parse it with grep and find what I need.

Even if I just exported a list of articles every time FreshRSS refreshes, that could work too (thereby capturing everything).

Thanks!

[aledeg]

Have you tried with the API? You might be able to access what you need with the proper call.

[winteriscariot]

I'm more of an administrator than a developer, and don't have a ton of experience with the API, but I'm happy to experiment. A brief look through the documentation at https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/ doesn't seem to have any notes or info on the API. Where would I find that info?

[Alkarex]

See https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/06_Mobile_access.html

• The Fever API is easier but not so efficient or feature-rich: https://feedafever.com/api
• The Google Reader API is better but more complicated: see e.g. https://feedhq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/index.html , https://www.inoreader.com/developers/

[aledeg]

@Alkarex while reading the documentation, I came across streams and the API should allow to list all unread messages with one call. I've tried it and it does not work.

Here is the call I made:

curl -s -H 'Authorization:GoogleLogin auth=xxxx/xxxx' 'http://localhost:8080/api/greader.php/reader/api/0/stream/contents/user/-/state/com.google/kept-unread?output=js'

Is this implemented or did I missed something?

[Alkarex]

@aledeg In FreshRSS, there is no concept of kept-unread. We only have read/not-read, starred, and various labels.

Example if you would like to retrieve the 10 newest unread articles:

curl -s -H "Authorization:GoogleLogin auth=xxxx/xxxx" 'https://freshrss.example.net/api/greader.php/reader/api/0/stream/contents/reading-list?n=10&xt=user/-/state/com.google/read'

See also

• https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/06_Mobile_access.html
• https://www.inoreader.com/developers/stream-contents

[winteriscariot]

Thanks for all the info! I'll probably try playing with the API, but for my purposes the zip export does enough at the CLI for me to feed into my archiver. Closing.

[Alkarex]

You can also check the SQLite export via CLI