BMSRR - Basic Minimalistic Simple RSS Reader
Table of Contents
1 Description
BMSRR is my Google Reader replacement. BMSRRs main feature are:
- Self-hosted
- Is a single PHP file
- Does not use a database
- Uses the Google Reader subscriptions.xml to read feeds
Features missing (that Google Reader have):
- Saving stories for later
- Keeping a backlog of stories after they are removed from its RSS feed
- Fancy ajax/html interface with shortcuts
- An easy way to add/edit RSS feeds
- Instantly get new stories
2 News
- 20 May 2013: Version 1.0
3 Demo
Bmsrr demo. The demo is generated from these rss feeds. Updating the demo shows a static output of what happens when actually updating.
4 Download
- bmsrr1.0.php (2013-05-20)
5 Github
6 Installation
6.1 Requirements
- A webserver that can handle PHP
- Write access
6.2 Set up
- Possible change bmsrr.php (changing the timezone is a good start (See list of PHPs supported timezones).
- Upload bmsrr.php to a webserver that can handle PHP.
- Upload your Google Reader subscriptions.xml to the same directory you uploaded bmsrr.php to (or write your own based on my demo subscriptions.xml).
- Open the url to bmsrr.php in a browser.
- If you get an error about not being able to create a file. Then make that file yourself and give it write permissions. E.g. for an FTP server:
touch bmsrr.html bmsrr_data.txt ftp ftp.example.org cd path put bmsrr.html chmod 777 bmsrr.html put bmsrr_data.txt chmod 777 bmsrr_data.txt
- Open the url to the generated file (bmsrr.html) in a browser.