First Reliable Public Release of News Platform

This is the first public release that should work reliably for everyone! 🎉🚀

News Aggregator - Aggregates news articles from several RSS feeds, fetches full-text if possible, sorts them by relevance (based on user settings), and displays them on a distraction-free homepage.

Go to Repo for more details/screenshots

Quick Setup

Create the docker-compose.yml file:

version: "3.9"

services:

  # The News Plattform
  news-platform:
    image: vanalmsick/news_platform
    container_name: news-platform
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 80:80    # for GUI/website
      - 81:5555  # for Celery Flower Task Que
      - 82:9001  # for Docker Supervisor Process Manager
    depends_on:
      news-platform-postgres:
        condition: service_healthy
    volumes:
      - /your/local/data/path/news_platform:/news_platform/data
    environment:
      MAIN_HOST: 'http://your-main-url'
      HOSTS: 'http://your-main-url,http://news-platform,http://localhost,http://192.168.1.201'
      TIME_ZONE: 'Europe/London'
      ALLOWED_LANGUAGES: 'en,de'
      CUSTOM_PLATFORM_NAME: 'Personal News Platform'
      SIDEBAR_TITLE: 'News Ticker: Funds'
      POSTGRESQL_HOST: news-platform-postgres  # not required - omit if you'd like to use SQLite
      POSTGRESQL_DB: postgres                  # not required - omit if you'd like to use SQLite
      POSTGRESQL_USER: postgres                # not required - omit if you'd like to use SQLite
      POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD: postgres            # not required - omit if you'd like to use SQLite


  # PostgreSQL Database [not required but fallback SQLite might cause IO write errors on small PCs like RaspberryPis]
  news-platform-postgres:
    image: postgres:16
    container_name: news-platform-postgres
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - /your/local/data/path/news_platform/postgresql:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    environment:
      POSTGRES_DB: postgres
      POSTGRES_USER: postgres
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
    healthcheck:
      test: [ "CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U $$POSTGRES_USER" ]
      interval: 5s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 10

Execute the command:
docker compose -f "docker-compose.yml" up --pull "always" -d --remove-orphans

Open http://localhost:80/refresh/ in your browser to tigger first news fetching (first fetch takes approx. 20min - later approx. 2min).