I'm avid of content curation using RSS feeds. Let me share some of my tips here and some code. This is a living document so please come back for new tips 🙂 and explore my other articles on this topic.
Some of those tips rely on Userscripts which are snippets of code executed automatically on web pages, and usually it's very handy to customize your navigation. I'm using Tampermonkey for such needs.
Filter categories (remove empty ones) with userscript
There is by default no distinction between categories with or without content, and it can be annoying. I made a user script to remove categories with no content to read.
Source
https://gitea.zoemp.be/sansguidon/snippets/raw/branch/main/miniflux_scripts/filter_categories.js
Demo
Before applying the script, we have some categories, including one with (0) unread entries.
After
The category with (0) unread entries is hidden.
Feed organizer
This one is for grouping together all feed entries by feed/author in the main on unread, read, and starred pages. I needed this one because by default, in unread tab, the feed entries are mixed all together and I often wanna consume content per feed/author and not in chronological order.
Source
https://gitea.zoemp.be/sansguidon/snippets/raw/branch/main/miniflux_scripts/feed_organizer.js
Demo
Fetch original content
This is a trick that works well with the majority of feeds so you can fetch the whole article content in your reader instead of just the excerpt.
Filter feed entries by title / content
I've customize the feed settings to exclude specific keywords, and on top of this I've also global rules which apply to all feeds, for excluding feed entries when keywords are found in their content or title. This makes it easy to exclude clickbait uninteresting or depressing content 🙂
My current setting is here as an example https://gitea.zoemp.be/sansguidon/snippets/raw/branch/main/miniflux/block.rules (RSS)
In this case I follow news with heavy metal album releases and I'm excluding specific genre like Death Metal. I'm also abusing the feature to avoid being spammed with recurrent news like Olympic games (Paris 2024). Finally there are already many reasons for me to be anxious, and I do not need more. The last rule saves me from the useless negative news. I keep fine tuning the list and I could improve this by including terms from public blacklists, like this.
Startup options
You can override Miniflux behavior with some environment variables. See https://miniflux.app/docs/configuration.html for more configuration options.
Those are mine and make Miniflux more indulgent to unstable RSS feeds.
export HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=60
export POLLING_PARSING_ERROR_LIMIT=6Last updated: Sept 5, 2024 around 9:51 AM CEST in 🗺️ Brussels, Belgium.
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