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Browse, read, and manage Miniflux feed articles. Use when Claude needs to work with RSS/atom feeds via Miniflux - listing unread/new articles, reading article content, marking articles as read, and managing feeds/categories. Provides CLI access with flexible output formats (headlines, summaries, full content).

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Miniflux Skill

Browse, read, and manage Miniflux RSS/atom feed articles through a CLI.

Quick Start

# List unread articles (brief format)
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py list --status=unread --brief

# Get article details
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py get 123

# Mark articles as read
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py mark-read 123 456

# Show article statistics (word count, reading time)
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py stats --entry-id=123

Configuration

Configuration precedence (highest to lowest):

  1. CLI flags: --url, --api-key
  2. Environment variables: MINIFLUX_URL, MINIFLUX_API_KEY
  3. Config file: ~/.local/share/miniflux/config.json (auto-created on first run)

Setup

# Option 1: Environment variables (recommended for agents)
export MINIFLUX_URL="https://miniflux.example.org"
export MINIFLUX_API_KEY="your-api-key"

# Option 2: CLI flags (one-time, saves to config)
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py --url="https://miniflux.example.org" --api-key="xxx" list

Subcommands

list - List Articles

List articles with optional filtering.

# Unread articles (brief)
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py list --status=unread --brief

# From specific feed with summary
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py list --feed=42 --summary

# Search with limit
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py list --search="python" --limit=10

# Starred articles
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py list --starred

Flags:

  • --status={read,unread,removed} - Filter by status
  • --feed=ID - Filter by feed ID
  • --category=ID - Filter by category ID
  • --starred - Show only starred
  • --search=QUERY - Search articles
  • --limit=N - Max number of entries
  • --offset=N - Skip first N chars in content
  • --content-limit=N - Max characters per article
  • -b, --brief - Titles only
  • -s, --summary - Title + excerpt
  • -f, --full - Full content (default)
  • --json - JSON output
  • --plain - Single-line per entry

get - Get Article by ID

Fetch a single article with content control.

# Full article
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py get 123

# First 2000 characters
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py get 123 --limit=2000

# Read from character 1000 to 2000 (pagination)
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py get 123 --offset=1000 --limit=1000

When content is truncated, shows: [...truncated, total: N chars]

mark-read - Mark as Read

Mark one or more articles as read.

# Single article
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py mark-read 123

# Multiple articles
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py mark-read 123 456 789

mark-unread - Mark as Unread

Mark one or more articles as unread.

uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py mark-unread 123

feeds - List Feeds

List all configured feeds.

# Human-readable
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py feeds

# JSON format
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py feeds --json

categories - List Categories

List all categories.

uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py categories

stats - Statistics

Show unread counts or article statistics.

# Article statistics (word count, character count, reading time)
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py stats --entry-id=123

# Global unread counts per feed
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py stats

refresh - Refresh Feeds

Trigger feed refresh.

# Refresh all feeds
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py refresh --all

# Refresh specific feed
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py refresh --feed=42

search - Search Articles

Convenient alias for list --search.

uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py search "rust"
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py search "ai" --status=unread --brief

Output Formats

  • --brief / -b - Quick overview (titles + feed + date)
  • --summary / -s - Title + content preview (200 chars)
  • --full / -f - Complete article content (default)
  • --json - Raw JSON output for machine processing
  • --plain - Single-line per entry (tab-separated)

Long Article Handling

For articles with large content (e.g., >5k words):

  1. Check statistics first:

    uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py stats --entry-id=123

    Shows word count, character count, reading time.

  2. Use pagination to read in chunks:

    # First 5000 chars
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py get 123 --limit=5000

# Next 5000 chars (chars 5000-10000)
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py get 123 --offset=5000 --limit=5000

  3. For summarization: If article is >5000 words, use a subagent to read and summarize:

    # Get stats to determine word count
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py stats --entry-id=123

# If >5000 words, delegate to subagent for summarization

Error Handling

The CLI provides helpful error messages:

  • Invalid credentials → Check MINIFLUX_API_KEY
  • Article not found → Suggests using list to browse
  • Missing config → Shows config file location
  • No results → Clear message

Standard Flags

  • -v, --version - Show version
  • -q, --quiet - Suppress non-error output
  • -d, --debug - Enable debug output
  • --no-color - Disable colored output
  • --url=URL - Miniflux server URL
  • --api-key=KEY - Miniflux API key

Examples

Daily Workflow

# Check what's unread
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py list --status=unread --brief

# Read interesting articles
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py get 456

# Mark as read
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py mark-read 456

Research Mode

# Search for specific topics
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py search "machine learning" --summary

# Get full article content
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py get 789

Batch Processing

# Get all unread as JSON for processing
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py list --status=unread --json

# Mark multiple as read
uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py mark-read 123 456 789

For complete help on any subcommand:

uv run scripts/miniflux-cli.py <subcommand> --help