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samuelclay/NewsBlur

NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

98/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 97
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 13
  • age_days: 6449
  • days_rel: 22
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 26

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

7597 stars · 1051 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

NewsBlur is an open-source personal RSS feed reader and social news network with intelligence training, full-text search, story archiving, and native iOS/Android apps. It can be used for free on newsblur.com or self-hosted from this Python-based repository.

Use cases

  • read and organize RSS feeds with a self-hosted news reader
  • train a feed reader to highlight stories I like and hide ones I don't
  • follow websites that don't publish RSS feeds
  • read email newsletters inside my RSS reader
  • search across all my subscribed stories with full-text search
  • share stories with friends on a public blurblog
  • connect AI agents to my feeds via an MCP server

When to choose

  • you want a Google Reader successor with social sharing and training filters
  • you need a self-hosted feed reader with native mobile apps
  • you want to follow non-RSS pages, newsletters, and YouTube channels in one place
  • you need permanent story archiving with full-text search

When to avoid

  • you want a lightweight single-user RSS reader with minimal infrastructure
  • you can't run MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch for self-hosting
  • you only need a simple CLI or scriptable feed fetcher

Facets

application · maturity active

search-engine web-scraping nlp mcp self-hosted web-development developer-tools python self-hosted rss-reader feed-reader news-aggregator intelligence-training blurblog elasticsearch mongodb redis postgresql social-news natural-language-processing web-server ios android docker

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Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
samuelclay/NewsBlurmain98

For agents

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