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A self-hosted RSS reader and personal knowledge management tool.

Glean (拾灵) helps information-heavy consumers efficiently manage their reading through intelligent RSS aggregation.

• 📰 RSS Subscription - Subscribe and organize RSS/Atom feeds with OPML import/export
• 📚 Smart Reading - Clean reading experience with content filtering
• 🔖 Read Later - Save articles for later reading with auto-cleanup
• 📁 Folders & Tags - Multi-level folders and tags for organization
• ⭐ Bookmarks - Save articles from feeds or external URLs
• 🔧 Background Sync - Automatic feed updates every 15 minutes
• 🔒 Self-hosted - Full data ownership with Docker deployment
• 🎨 Modern UI - Beautiful, responsive warm dark theme interface
• 👨‍💼 Admin Dashboard - User management and system monitoring

• 🧠 Smart Recommendations - AI-powered preference learning and article scoring
• ⚙️ Rule Engine - Automated processing with Jinja2-style conditions
• 🤖 AI Features - Summary generation, auto-tagging, keyword extraction (BYOK)
• 📄 Full Content Fetch - Fetch complete article content for RSS summaries
• 🔌 Chrome Extension - One-click bookmarking from browser
• 📱 Mobile PWA - Progressive Web App for mobile devices

# Download and start Glean
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LeslieLeung/glean/main/docker-compose.yml -o docker-compose.yml
docker compose up -d

# Access at http://localhost

That's it! Open http://localhost to start using Glean.

For additional admin features (user management, statistics):

# Download full deployment config
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LeslieLeung/glean/main/docker-compose.full.yml -o docker-compose.yml

# Create admin account on first startup
CREATE_ADMIN=true docker compose up -d

# Check logs for admin credentials (save them!)
docker compose logs backend | grep -A5 "Admin Account Created"

# Access:
# - Web App: http://localhost
# - Admin Dashboard: http://localhost:3001

# Generate random password
docker exec -it glean-backend /app/scripts/create-admin-docker.sh

# Or specify credentials
docker exec -it glean-backend /app/scripts/create-admin-docker.sh myusername MySecurePass123!

Copy .env.example to .env and customize:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LeslieLeung/glean/main/.env.example -o .env

Key settings:

Pre-built images are available on GitHub Container Registry:

• ghcr.io/leslieleung/glean-backend:latest - API server & worker
• ghcr.io/leslieleung/glean-web:latest - Web frontend
• ghcr.io/leslieleung/glean-admin:latest - Admin dashboard

Supported architectures: linux/amd64, linux/arm64

Backend:

• Python 3.11+ / FastAPI / SQLAlchemy 2.0
• PostgreSQL / Redis / arq (task queue)

Frontend:

• React 18 / TypeScript / Vite
• Tailwind CSS / Zustand / TanStack Query

See DEVELOPMENT.md for complete development setup instructions.

Quick start:

# Clone and setup
git clone https://github.com/LeslieLeung/glean.git
cd glean
npm install

# Start infrastructure
make up

# Initialize database (first time only)
make db-upgrade

# Start all services
make dev-all

# Access:
# - Web: http://localhost:3000
# - Admin: http://localhost:3001
# - API Docs: http://localhost:8000/api/docs

See Product Requirements for detailed feature specifications.

• Development Guide - Set up your development environment
• Deployment Guide - Production deployment details

Contributions are welcome! Please read our Development Guide first.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Make your changes
4. Run tests and linting
5. Submit a Pull Request

This project is licensed under the AGPL-3.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.