.\" Manpage for miniflux. .TH "MINIFLUX" "1" "March 23, 2024" "\ \&" "\ \&" .SH NAME miniflux \- Minimalist and opinionated feed reader .SH SYNOPSIS \fBminiflux\fR [-vic] [-config-dump] [-config-file] [-create-admin] [-debug] [-flush-sessions] [-healthcheck] [-info] [-migrate] [-refresh-feeds] [-reset-feed-errors] [-reset-password] [-run-cleanup-tasks] [-version] .SH DESCRIPTION \fBminiflux\fR is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader. .SH OPTIONS .PP .B \-config-dump .RS 4 Print parsed configuration values. This will include sensitive information like passwords\&. .RE .PP .B \-c /path/to/miniflux.conf .RS 4 Load configuration file\&. .RE .PP .B \-config-file /path/to/miniflux.conf .RS 4 Load configuration file\&. .RE .PP .B \-create-admin .RS 4 Create an admin user from an interactive terminal\&. .RE .PP .B \-debug .RS 4 Set log level to debug\&. .RE .PP .B \-export-user-feeds .RS 4 Export user feeds (provide the username as argument)\&. .br Example: "miniflux -export-user-feeds someone > feeds.xml"\&. .RE .PP .B \-flush-sessions .RS 4 Flush all sessions (disconnect users)\&. .RE .PP .B \-healthcheck .RS 4 Perform a health check on the given endpoint\&. .br The value "auto" try to guess the health check endpoint\&. .RE .PP .B \-i .RS 4 Show build information\&. .RE .PP .B \-info .RS 4 Show build information\&. .RE .PP .B \-migrate .RS 4 Run SQL migrations\&. .RE .PP .B \-refresh-feeds .RS 4 Refresh a batch of feeds and exit\&. .RE .PP .B \-reset-feed-errors .RS 4 Clear all feed errors for all users\&. .RE .PP .B \-reset-password .RS 4 Reset user password\&. .RE .PP .B \-run-cleanup-tasks .RS 4 Run cleanup tasks (delete old sessions and archives old entries)\&. .RE .PP .B \-v .RS 4 Show application version\&. .RE .PP .B \-version .RS 4 Show application version\&. .RE .SH CONFIGURATION FILE The configuration file is a text file that follow these rules: .LP - Miniflux expects each line to be in KEY=VALUE format. .br - Lines beginning with # are processed as comments and ignored. .br - Blank lines are ignored. .br - There is no variable interpolation. .PP Keys are the same as the environment variables described below. .br Environment variables override the values defined in the config file. .SH ENVIRONMENT .TP .B ADMIN_PASSWORD Admin user password, used only if $CREATE_ADMIN is enabled\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE Path to a secret key exposed as a file, it should contain $ADMIN_PASSWORD value\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B ADMIN_USERNAME Admin user login, used only if $CREATE_ADMIN is enabled\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B ADMIN_USERNAME_FILE Path to a secret key exposed as a file, it should contain $ADMIN_USERNAME value\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B AUTH_PROXY_HEADER Proxy authentication HTTP header\&. .br Default is empty. .TP .B AUTH_PROXY_USER_CREATION Set to 1 to create users based on proxy authentication information\&. .br Disabled by default\&. .TP .B BASE_URL Base URL to generate HTML links and base path for cookies\&. .br Default is http://localhost/\&. .TP .B BATCH_SIZE Number of feeds to send to the queue for each interval\&. .br Default is 100 feeds\&. .TP .B CERT_DOMAIN Use Let's Encrypt to get automatically a certificate for this domain\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B CERT_FILE Path to SSL certificate\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B CLEANUP_ARCHIVE_BATCH_SIZE Number of entries to archive for each job interval\&. .br Default is 10000 entries\&. .TP .B CLEANUP_ARCHIVE_READ_DAYS Number of days after marking read entries as removed\&. .br Set to -1 to keep all read entries. .br Default is 60 days\&. .TP .B CLEANUP_ARCHIVE_UNREAD_DAYS Number of days after marking unread entries as removed\&. .br Set to -1 to keep all unread entries. .br Default is 180 days\&. .TP .B CLEANUP_FREQUENCY_HOURS Cleanup job frequency. Remove old sessions and archive entries\&. .br Default is 24 hours\&. .TP .B CLEANUP_REMOVE_SESSIONS_DAYS Number of days after removing old sessions from the database\&. .br Default is 30 days\&. .TP .B CREATE_ADMIN Set to 1 to create an admin user from environment variables\&. .br Disabled by default\&. .TP .B DATABASE_CONNECTION_LIFETIME Set the maximum amount of time a connection may be reused\&. .br Default is 5 minutes\&. .TP .B DATABASE_MAX_CONNS Maximum number of database connections\&. .br Default is 20\&. .TP .B DATABASE_MIN_CONNS Minimum number of database connections\&. .br Default is 20\&. .TP .B DATABASE_URL Postgresql connection parameters\&. .br Default is "user=postgres password=postgres dbname=miniflux2 sslmode=disable"\&. .TP .B DATABASE_URL_FILE Path to a secret key exposed as a file, it should contain $DATABASE_URL value\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B DISABLE_HSTS Disable HTTP Strict Transport Security header if \fBHTTPS\fR is set\&. .br Default is false (The HSTS is enabled)\&. .TP .B DISABLE_HTTP_SERVICE Set the value to 1 to disable the HTTP service\&. .br Default is false (The HTTP service is enabled)\&. .TP .B DISABLE_SCHEDULER_SERVICE Set the value to 1 to disable the internal scheduler service\&. .br Default is false (The internal scheduler service is enabled)\&. .TP .B FETCH_NEBULA_WATCH_TIME Set the value to 1 to scrape video duration from Nebula website and use it as a reading time\&. .br Disabled by default\&. .TP .B FETCH_ODYSEE_WATCH_TIME Set the value to 1 to scrape video duration from Odysee website and use it as a reading time\&. .br Disabled by default\&. .TP .B FETCH_YOUTUBE_WATCH_TIME Set the value to 1 to scrape video duration from YouTube website and use it as a reading time\&. .br Disabled by default\&. .TP .B FILTER_ENTRY_MAX_AGE_DAYS Number of days after which new entries should be retained\&. .br Set 7 to fetch only entries 7 days old\&. .br Default is 0 (disabled)\&. .TP .B FORCE_REFRESH_INTERVAL The minimum interval for manual refresh\&. .br Default is 30 minutes\&. .TP .B HTTP_CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE Maximum body size for HTTP requests in Mebibyte (MiB)\&. .br Default is 15 MiB\&. .TP .B HTTP_CLIENT_PROXY Proxy URL for HTTP client\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT Time limit in seconds before the HTTP client cancel the request\&. .br Default is 20 seconds\&. .TP .B HTTP_CLIENT_USER_AGENT The default User-Agent header to use for the HTTP client. Can be overridden in per-feed settings\&. .br When empty, Miniflux uses a default User-Agent that includes the Miniflux version\&. .br Default is empty. .TP .B HTTP_SERVER_TIMEOUT Time limit in seconds before the HTTP client cancel the request\&. .br Default is 300 seconds\&. .TP .B HTTPS Forces cookies to use secure flag and send HSTS header\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B INVIDIOUS_INSTANCE Set a custom invidious instance to use\&. .br Default is yewtu.be\&. .TP .B KEY_FILE Path to SSL private key\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B LISTEN_ADDR Address to listen on. Use absolute path to listen on Unix socket (/var/run/miniflux.sock)\&. .br Default is 127.0.0.1:8080\&. .TP .B LOG_DATE_TIME Display the date and time in log messages\&. .br Disabled by default\&. .TP .B LOG_FILE Supported values are "stderr", "stdout", or a file name\&. .br Default is "stderr"\&. .TP .B LOG_FORMAT Supported log formats are "text" or "json"\&. .br Default is "text"\&. .TP .B LOG_LEVEL Supported values are "debug", "info", "warning", or "error"\&. .br Default is "info"\&. .TP .B MAINTENANCE_MESSAGE Define a custom maintenance message\&. .br Default is "Miniflux is currently under maintenance"\&. .TP .B MAINTENANCE_MODE Set to 1 to enable maintenance mode\&. .br Disabled by default\&. .TP .B MEDIA_PROXY_CUSTOM_URL Sets an external server to proxy media through\&. .br Default is empty, Miniflux does the proxying\&. .TP .B MEDIA_PROXY_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT Time limit in seconds before the media proxy HTTP client cancel the request\&. .br Default is 120 seconds\&. .TP .B MEDIA_PROXY_RESOURCE_TYPES A comma-separated list of media types to proxify. Supported values are: image, audio, video\&. .br Default is image\&. .TP .B MEDIA_PROXY_MODE Possible values: http-only, all, or none\&. .br Default is http-only\&. .TP .B MEDIA_PROXY_PRIVATE_KEY Set a custom custom private key used to sign proxified media URLs\&. .br By default, a secret key is randomly generated during startup\&. .TP .B METRICS_ALLOWED_NETWORKS List of networks allowed to access the metrics endpoint (comma-separated values)\&. .br Default is 127.0.0.1/8\&. .TP .B METRICS_COLLECTOR Set to 1 to enable metrics collector. Expose a /metrics endpoint for Prometheus. .br Disabled by default\&. .TP .B METRICS_PASSWORD Metrics endpoint password for basic HTTP authentication\&. .br Default is emtpty\&. .TP .B METRICS_PASSWORD_FILE Path to a file that contains the password for the metrics endpoint HTTP authentication\&. .br Default is emtpty\&. .TP .B METRICS_REFRESH_INTERVAL Refresh interval to collect database metrics\&. .br Default is 60 seconds\&. .TP .B METRICS_USERNAME Metrics endpoint username for basic HTTP authentication\&. .br Default is emtpty\&. .TP .B METRICS_USERNAME_FILE Path to a file that contains the username for the metrics endpoint HTTP authentication\&. .br Default is emtpty\&. .TP .B OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID OAuth2 client ID\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID_FILE Path to a secret key exposed as a file, it should contain $OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID value\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET OAuth2 client secret\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET_FILE Path to a secret key exposed as a file, it should contain $OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET value\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B OAUTH2_OIDC_DISCOVERY_ENDPOINT OpenID Connect discovery endpoint\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B OAUTH2_PROVIDER Possible values are "google" or "oidc"\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B OAUTH2_REDIRECT_URL OAuth2 redirect URL\&. .br This URL must be registered with the provider and is something like https://miniflux.example.org/oauth2/oidc/callback\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B OAUTH2_USER_CREATION Set to 1 to authorize OAuth2 user creation\&. .br Disabled by default\&. .TP .B POCKET_CONSUMER_KEY Pocket consumer API key for all users\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B POCKET_CONSUMER_KEY_FILE Path to a secret key exposed as a file, it should contain $POCKET_CONSUMER_KEY value\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B POLLING_FREQUENCY Refresh interval in minutes for feeds\&. .br Default is 60 minutes\&. .TP .B POLLING_PARSING_ERROR_LIMIT The maximum number of parsing errors that the program will try before stopping polling a feed. Once the limit is reached, the user must refresh the feed manually. Set to 0 for unlimited. .br Default is 3\&. .TP .B POLLING_SCHEDULER Scheduler used for polling feeds. Possible values are "round_robin" or "entry_frequency"\&. .br The maximum number of feeds polled for a given period is subject to POLLING_FREQUENCY and BATCH_SIZE\&. .br When "entry_frequency" is selected, the refresh interval for a given feed is equal to the average updating interval of the last week of the feed\&. .br The actual number of feeds polled will not exceed the maximum number of feeds that could be polled for a given period\&. .br Default is "round_robin"\&. .TP .B PORT Override LISTEN_ADDR to 0.0.0.0:$PORT\&. .br Default is empty\&. .TP .B RUN_MIGRATIONS Set to 1 to run database migrations\&. .br Disabled by default\&. .TP .B SCHEDULER_ENTRY_FREQUENCY_FACTOR Factor to increase refresh frequency for the entry frequency scheduler\&. .br Default is 1\&. .TP .B SCHEDULER_ENTRY_FREQUENCY_MAX_INTERVAL Maximum interval in minutes for the entry frequency scheduler\&. .br Default is 24 hours\&. .TP .B SCHEDULER_ENTRY_FREQUENCY_MIN_INTERVAL Minimum interval in minutes for the entry frequency scheduler\&. .br Default is 5 minutes\&. .TP .B SCHEDULER_ROUND_ROBIN_MIN_INTERVAL Minimum interval in minutes for the round robin scheduler\&. .br Default is 60 minutes\&. .TP .B SERVER_TIMING_HEADER Set the value to 1 to enable server-timing headers\&. .br Disabled by default\&. .TP .B WATCHDOG Enable or disable Systemd watchdog\&. .br Enabled by default\&. .TP .B WEBAUTHN Enable or disable WebAuthn/Passkey authentication\&. .br Note: After activating and setting up your Passkey, just enter your username and click the Passkey login button\&. .br Default is disabled\&. .TP .B WORKER_POOL_SIZE Number of background workers\&. .br Default is 16 workers\&. .TP .B YOUTUBE_EMBED_URL_OVERRIDE YouTube URL which will be used for embeds\&. .br Default is https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/\&. .SH AUTHORS .P Miniflux is written and maintained by Fr\['e]d\['e]ric Guillot\&. .SH "COPYRIGHT" .P Miniflux is released under the Apache 2.0 license\&.