Raven Reader Hello Efficiency Inc.

Raven is a open source desktop news reader with flexible settings to optimize your experience. No login is required, and no personal data is collected. Just select the websites you want to curate articles from and enjoy!

README

NOTE

Working on the new version completely re-written. This version of Raven Reader would no longer be maintained. Stay tuned for more announcements and new repo.

Download

To download, please visit https://ravenreader.app.

Install via Homebrew (macOS)

To use Homebrew-Cask you just need to have Homebrew installed.

brew install --cask raven-reader

Install via Chocolatey (Windows) (Thanks to @A-d-r-i)

choco install raven

Features

• [x] Full Article Read
• [x] Subscribing to news feed
• [x] Marking as read/unread
• [x] Marking as favourite
• [x] Dark mode
• [x] Configurable cron job for refresh interval of feeds
• [x] Minimize app to tray and run in background
• [x] Open article link in external browser
• [x] Responsive
• [x] Exporting feed in OPML format
• [x] Importing feeds
• [x] Windows support
• [x] Linux support
• [x] Offline reading
• [x] Keyboard Shortcuts
• [x] Sidebar count
• [x] Text size configuration
• [x] Text font style configuration (Currently has Playfair Display, Muli, Open Sans and Roboto Slab)
• [x] Supports categorizing of the feeds.
• [x] macOS touchbar shortcuts
• [x] Integration with read it later apps: Pocket, Instapaper
• [x] Podcast support. Subscribe to podcast rss feed and listen within app.
• [x] Accessibility Friendly
• [x] Feedbin integration (Folders are WIP)
• [x] Inoreader integration
• [x] Google Reader API support. Supports self hosted RSS Services like FreshRSS.org etc. (Folders are WIP)
• [x] Support for subscribing Youtube channels and viewing within app.
• [x] Flexible resizing of columns/panes

Please feel free to suggest more ideas to improve this app.

Supported Platforms

• Feedbin
• Inoreader
• Self hosted RSS Services compatible with Google Reader API (OldReader, Bazqux, FreshRSS)
• Fever

Supported Locale

| Language | Contributor | |-----------|--------------| | English | | | French | | | Catalan | alexhoma| | Turkish | ahmetcadirci25| | Chinese | @LinWhite2333| | Dutch | @Vistause | | Russian | @vanja-san | | Polish | @konhi| | Brazilian Portuguese | @gabrielgomeso| | Italian | @luverolla| | German | @nebulon42|

Contributions

We're excited that you're wanting to help us make Raven Reader even better! Contributions of all sizes are welcome, if you'd like to work on something take a look through the current GitHub issues. If it's a new feature or potential bugs, please make a new issue ticket for it and populate it accordingly.

Contributors Wall

Note: It may take up to 24h for the contrib.rocks plugin to update because it's refreshed once a day.

Developer Notes

For setup instructions and configuration follow https://github.com/nklayman/vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder

Build Setup

# install dependencies
yarn install

# serve with hot reload at localhost:9080
yarn electron:serve

# build electron application for production
yarn electron:build


# lint all JS/Vue component files in `src/`
yarn run lint

Powered by

• Bootstrap
• Vue & Vuex
• Lovefield
• Mercury Parser

License

MIT