Installation
Python versions
reader supports Python 3.8 and newer, and PyPy.
Dependencies
These packages will be installed automatically when installing reader:
feedparser parses feeds; reader is essentially feedparser + state.
requests retrieves feeds from the internet; it replaces feedparser’s default use of
urllib
to make it easier to write plugins.iso8601 parses dates in ISO 8601 / RFC 3339; used for JSON Feed parsing.
beautifulsoup4 is used to strip HTML tags before adding entries to the search index.
reader also depends on the sqlite3
standard library module
(at least SQLite 3.15), and on the JSON1 SQLite extension.
To use the full-text search functionality,
at least SQLite 3.18 with the FTS5 extension is required.
Note
reader works out of the box on Windows only starting with Python 3.9,
because the SQLite bundled with the official Python distribution
does not include the JSON1 extension in earlier versions.
That said, it should be possible to build sqlite3
with a newer version of SQLite;
see #163 for details.
Optional dependencies
Despite coming with a CLI and web application, reader is primarily a library. As such, most dependencies are optional, and can be installed as extras.
As of version 2.16, reader has the following extras:
cli
installs the dependencies needed for the command-line interface.app
installs the dependencies needed for the web application.Specific plugins may require additional dependencies; refer to their documentation for details.
Virtual environments
You should probably install reader inside a virtual environment; see this for how and why to do it.
Install reader
Use the following command to install reader, along with its required dependencies:
pip install reader
Use the following command to install reader with optional dependencies:
pip install 'reader[some-extra,...]'
Update reader
Use the following command to update reader (add any extras as needed):
pip install --upgrade reader
Living on the edge
If you want to use the latest reader code before it’s released, install or update from the master branch:
pip install --upgrade https://github.com/lemon24/reader/archive/master.tar.gz