moritzheiber/lares

Lares is a lightweight backend service that fetches and stores RSS feed updates, designed to work with news-reading apps that speak the "Fever API" protocol. Think of it as a personal middleman: it periodically checks your favorite websites and blogs for new articles, holds onto them, and then hands them off to a reading app on your phone or computer when that app asks for them. The key benefit is that it requires essentially zero configuration to get running. Under the hood, it runs as a small program with two parts: a command-line tool and a server. You use the command-line tool to organize your feeds, adding new websites, grouping related ones together, and so on. The server component handles the actual work of polling those sites on a regular schedule (by default, every 30 minutes) and serving up the collected articles to whatever client app connects to it. All the data gets stored in a simple SQLite database file, which keeps things tidy and self-contained. The target audience is people who want a self-hosted alternative to cloud-based RSS services but already have a preferred reading app. For example, if you use Reeder on your iPhone and want to sync your feeds across devices without paying for or relying on a third-party service, you could run this on a home computer, a small cloud server, or in a container. The README specifically recommends Reeder as a client. There is a notable tradeoff: Lares deliberately does not include any user interface of its own. You manage everything through text commands, and all the reading happens in a separate app. This keeps the project minimal and focused, but it means the project is not for someone looking for a standalone, visually polished news reader, it is purely the behind-the-scenes engine.