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There are numerous sync clients available which interface with the News app's API:
By appending ?subscribe_to=SOME_URL to your News app URL, you can launch the News app with a prefilled URL, e.g.:
https://yourdomain.com/owncloud/index.php/apps/news?subscribe_to=https://github.com/owncloud/news/releases
The News app provides an API for parallel feed updates which is very similar to system and web cron. The following implementations exist:
The News app uses a JSON format to display the feeds in the explore feed section:
- Add feeds to the default News explore page
- How to provide an explore service The URL can be changed in the admin page to use a custom service to show feed recommendations
The News app provides a plugin interface for developers, see How to write plugins
Existing plugins include:
Requested plugins include: Hints and descriptions how on how to implement it are included. If you need further help, feel free to ask!
- Bookmark an article: Create a button that allows you to bookmark articles in the bookmarks app
- Delete content of inactive users: On bigger hosted installations it might be useful to clean up the database by removing content of inactive users
- Open all unread articles shortcut: This might be interesting for feeds that contain images and you just want to open all of them.
- News app v1.2 API documentation
- News app v2 API documentation (draft phase)
The following libraries can be used to use the News app API easily:
- Node.js:
- oc-news-js
This enables you to directly extract the article from the html page. Useful to enhance feeds that only provide a link to the article content by fetching the article content directly from the page
If you've written your own, please consider sending a pull request!