Welcome!¶
About¶
Ginger is a news reader for web feeds. Once it is hosted in a web server, a user can login and read her news in the web browser.
Features:
multi-user web application
multiple news feeds per user
message tagging
powerful message filtering
very customizable
scripting interface
It is based on Django and Python and is real-world tested to run in Apache with the wsgi module on Debian Linux.
License¶
ginger is distributed under the terms of the AGPLv3 license. This also affects all included files without a license header (non-source files like images), unless they are explicitly mentioned as third-party content. Read the Dependencies section for included third-party stuff.
Download¶
The following packages are available. Choose the one that matches your operating system or environment. Please also check for requirements. ginger is in production-stable state.
Debian package
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Dependencies¶
There are external parts that are used by ginger. Many thanks to the projects and all participants.
Python 3.7, required
Django 2.2.17, required
Typical GNU/Linux Desktop, recommended
python-feedparser, required
apache 2.4, recommended : as web server
mod_wsgi, recommended : apache module
jquery, included : licensed under terms of GPLv2.
font ‘Symbola’, included : for logo symbol; free for use; copied from here.
banner image, included : _meta/background.png; license public domain; copied from here.
all files in /_meta, included : if not mentioned otherwise, Copyright 2015 Josef Hahn under license CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
Gallery¶
Ginger on mobile phones The Ginger login screen The main view, containing a message list and a filter panel Settings Feed management Screencast: First steps Screencast: Favorites and tagging Screencast: Filters Screencast: Scripting
Change Log¶
The last changes brought the following improvements.
2021-01-21 (3.0.1536)
More modern user interface (again).
Imprint¶
Publisher: Josef Hahn, Boxgraben 112-114, 52064 Aachen, Germany | website: pseudopolis.eu/wiki/pino | mail: ginger@pseudopolis.eu
Feedback¶
If you have funny rants about ginger itself or about some techniques it uses, some constructive feedback, a cool patch or a mysterious problem, feel free to mail it to ginger@pseudopolis.eu.
Please use the bugtracker if you have found an error in the software.