Json-RPC API

The Miniflux API is a way to interact programatically with your feeds, items, bookmarks and other data.

Developers can use this API to make desktop or mobile clients.

Protocol

The API use the JSON-RPC protocol because it's very simple.

JSON-RPC is a remote procedure call protocol encoded in JSON. Almost the same thing as XML-RPC but with JSON.

We use the version 2 of the protocol. You must call the API with a POST HTTP request.

Credentials

The first step is to retrieve API credentials and the URL endpoint. They are available in preferences > api.

You must have these information:

API endpoint: https://your_domain.tld/jsonrpc.php
API username: username
API token: XXXXXX (random token)

The API username is the same as your login username and the API token is generated automatically.

Authentication

The API use the HTTP Basic Authentication scheme described in RFC2617.

Examples

Example with cURL

curl \
-u "username:password" \
-d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "createFeed", "params": {"url": "http://images.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss"}, "id": 1}' \
https://localhost/jsonrpc.php

Success response:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": 6
}

The feed_id is 6.

Error response:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": false
}

Procedures

getVersion

Purpose: Get application version
Parameters: none
Result on success: version

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getVersion",
  "id": 304873928
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": "master",
    "id": 304873928
}

createUser

Purpose: Create new user (accessible only by administrators)
Parameters:
- username (string)
- password (string)
- is_admin (boolean, optional)
Result on success: user_id
Result on failure: false

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "createUser",
  "id": 97055228,
  "params": {
    "username": "api_test",
    "password": "test123"
  }
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": 2,
    "id": 97055228
}

removeUser

Purpose: Remove a user (accessible only by administrators)
Parameters:
- user_id (integer)
Result on success: true
Result on failure: false

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "removeUser",
  "id": 2109613284,
  "params": [
    3
  ]
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": true,
    "id": 2109613284
}

getUserByUsername

Purpose: Get user (accessible only by administrators)
Parameters:
- username (string)
Result on success: user object
Result on failure: false|null

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getUserByUsername",
  "id": 1456121566,
  "params": [
    "api_test"
  ]
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": {
        "id": "2",
        "username": "api_test",
        "password": "$2y$10$FOzlRrLoHRI3Xj4YuV8z5O1jI4CKda61reX.g.Fm4ctYMijpOhTGu",
        "is_admin": "0",
        "last_login": null,
        "api_token": "398c293808aaed9cf2be45cf8e4fa303be5cdbbf6c4a55fece6b585c6a6c",
        "bookmarklet_token": "965e9049138e4e78c398dc369fc4ec529226055c6fd77a3d4119bc3a1b5e",
        "cronjob_token": "a4f6e1f5fd655c7365ebddcaf1dfd5782669186ed85a788d8e52b8230399",
        "feed_token": "62ed60fb75616d3f81a938206449a20fe30f0bf9db9bf0b93259821f5938",
        "fever_token": "59253f797b3b1885e31449fa97e9348c127e4e10e4eea959a2555c1b3a1e",
        "fever_api_key": "5e379736d05847f87c37a7d2f57ed234"
    },
    "id": 1456121566
}

getFeeds

Purpose: Get all subscriptions
Parameters: none
Result on success: list of feed objects
Result on failure: false

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getFeeds",
  "id": 1189414818
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": [
        {
            "id": "1",
            "user_id": "1",
            "feed_url": "https:\/\/miniflux.net\/feed",
            "site_url": "https:\/\/miniflux.net\/",
            "title": "Miniflux",
            "last_checked": "1483053994",
            "last_modified": "Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:54:32 GMT",
            "etag": "W\/\"bdc7a83fd61620b778da350991501757\"",
            "enabled": "1",
            "download_content": "0",
            "parsing_error": "0",
            "rtl": "0",
            "cloak_referrer": "0",
            "parsing_error_message": null,
            "expiration": "1483226794",
            "groups": [
                {
                    "id": "1",
                    "title": "open source software"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "id": 1189414818
}

getFeed

Purpose: Get one subscription
Parameters:
- feed_id (integer)
Result on success: feed object
Result on failure: null

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getFeed",
  "id": 912101777,
  "params": [
    1
  ]
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": {
        "id": "1",
        "user_id": "1",
        "feed_url": "https:\/\/miniflux.net\/feed",
        "site_url": "https:\/\/miniflux.net\/",
        "title": "Miniflux",
        "last_checked": "1483053994",
        "last_modified": "Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:54:32 GMT",
        "etag": "W\/\"bdc7a83fd61620b778da350991501757\"",
        "enabled": "1",
        "download_content": "0",
        "parsing_error": "0",
        "rtl": "0",
        "cloak_referrer": "0",
        "parsing_error_message": null,
        "expiration": "1483226794",
        "groups": [
            {
                "id": "1",
                "title": "open source software"
            }
        ]
    },
    "id": 912101777
}

createFeed

Purpose: Add new subscription
Parameters:
- url (string)
- download_content (boolean, optional)
- rtl (boolean, optional)
- group_name (string, optional)
Result on success: feed_id
Result on failure: false

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "createFeed",
  "id": 315813488,
  "params": {
    "url": "https://miniflux.net/feed",
    "group_name": "open source software"
  }
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": 1,
    "id": 315813488
}

removeFeed

Purpose: Create new user
Parameters:
- feed_id (integer)
Result on success: true
Result on failure: false

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "removeFeed",
  "id": 1793804609,
  "params": [
    1
  ]
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": true,
    "id": 1793804609
}

refreshFeed

Purpose: Refresh subscription (synchronous call)
Parameters:
- feed_id (integer)
Result on success: true
Result on failure: false

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "refreshFeed",
  "id": 181234449,
  "params": [
    1
  ]
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": true,
    "id": 181234449
}

getItems

Purpose: Get list of items
Parameters:
- since_id (integer, optional) Returns only feeds from this item id
- item_ids ([]integer, optional) Returns only items in this list
- limit (integer, optional, default=50) Change number of items returned
Result on success: list of item objects
Result on failure: false

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getItems",
  "id": 84429548,
  "params": {
    "since_id": 2
  }
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": [
        {
            "id": "3",
            "checksum": "7f4b791f",
            "title": "Miniflux 1.1.8 released",
            "updated": "1442016000",
            "url": "https:\/\/miniflux.net\/news\/version-1.1.8",
            "enclosure_url": "",
            "enclosure_type": "",
            "bookmark": "0",
            "feed_id": "1",
            "status": "unread",
            "content": "<ul>\n<li>Add feed groups (tags)<\/li>\n<li>Add custom rules directory support<\/li>\n<li>Add no referrer policy in meta tags and content security directives<\/li>\n<li>Update of PicoFeed with new scraper rules<\/li>\n<li>Enable Strict-Transport-Security header for HTTPS<\/li>\n<li>Change CSP directives to allow data url (Fix issue with Firefox 40)<\/li>\n<li>Toggle text direction for full content preview as well<\/li>\n<li>Add Russian translation<\/li>\n<li>Updated Czech translation<\/li>\n<li>Mark items on page 2+ read as well<\/li>\n<li>Allow to override the maximum feed size limit<\/li>\n<li>Added a config option to select how many concurrent refreshes are done on the subscription page<\/li>\n<li>Catch exceptions for image proxy<\/li>\n<li>Improve CSS for preview full content<\/li>\n<li>Minor feed edit dialog improvements<\/li>\n<li>Expose all feed errors to the frontend when adding a subscription<\/li>\n<li>Keep selected options on feed adding error<\/li>\n<li>Fix bug when the summery helper doesn&#039;t contains whitespace<\/li>\n<li>Fix Fever API bug: enable send bookmark to third-party services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thanks to all contributors!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/miniflux.net\/miniflux-1.1.8.zip\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Download archive<\/a><\/p>",
            "language": "",
            "rtl": "0",
            "author": "Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Guillot",
            "site_url": "https:\/\/miniflux.net\/",
            "feed_title": "Miniflux"
        },
        [..]
    ],
    "id":84429548
}

getItemsByStatus

Purpose: Get list of items by status
Parameters:
- status (string)
- feed_ids ([]integer, optional) Returns only items from this list of feeds
- offset (integer, optional) Number of offset items (used for pagination)
- limit (integer, optional, default=50) Change number of items returned
- order_column (string, optional, default='updated') Order table column
- order_direction (string, optional, default='desc') Order direction
Result on success: list of item objects
Result on failure: false

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getItemsByStatus",
  "id": 84429548,
  "params": {
    "status": "unread"
  }
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": [
        {
            "id": "3",
            "checksum": "7f4b791f",
            "title": "Miniflux 1.1.8 released",
            "updated": "1442016000",
            "url": "https:\/\/miniflux.net\/news\/version-1.1.8",
            "enclosure_url": "",
            "enclosure_type": "",
            "bookmark": "0",
            "feed_id": "1",
            "status": "unread",
            "content": "<ul>\n<li>Add feed groups (tags)<\/li>\n<li>Add custom rules directory support<\/li>\n<li>Add no referrer policy in meta tags and content security directives<\/li>\n<li>Update of PicoFeed with new scraper rules<\/li>\n<li>Enable Strict-Transport-Security header for HTTPS<\/li>\n<li>Change CSP directives to allow data url (Fix issue with Firefox 40)<\/li>\n<li>Toggle text direction for full content preview as well<\/li>\n<li>Add Russian translation<\/li>\n<li>Updated Czech translation<\/li>\n<li>Mark items on page 2+ read as well<\/li>\n<li>Allow to override the maximum feed size limit<\/li>\n<li>Added a config option to select how many concurrent refreshes are done on the subscription page<\/li>\n<li>Catch exceptions for image proxy<\/li>\n<li>Improve CSS for preview full content<\/li>\n<li>Minor feed edit dialog improvements<\/li>\n<li>Expose all feed errors to the frontend when adding a subscription<\/li>\n<li>Keep selected options on feed adding error<\/li>\n<li>Fix bug when the summery helper doesn&#039;t contains whitespace<\/li>\n<li>Fix Fever API bug: enable send bookmark to third-party services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thanks to all contributors!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/miniflux.net\/miniflux-1.1.8.zip\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Download archive<\/a><\/p>",
            "language": "",
            "rtl": "0",
            "author": "Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Guillot",
            "site_url": "https:\/\/miniflux.net\/",
            "feed_title": "Miniflux"
        },
        [..]
    ],
    "id":84429548
}

getItem

Purpose: Fetch one item
Parameters:
- item_id (integer)
Result on success: item object
Result on failure: null

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getItem",
  "id": 1323079112,
  "params": [
    1
  ]
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": {
        "id": "1",
        "user_id": "1",
        "feed_id": "1",
        "checksum": "a86e22e4",
        "status": "unread",
        "bookmark": "0",
        "url": "https:\/\/miniflux.net\/news\/version-1.1.10",
        "title": "Miniflux 1.1.10 released",
        "author": "Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Guillot",
        "content": "<p>Here are the main changes of this version:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Code cleanup<\/li>\n<li>Do not use anymore Closure compiler for Javascript<\/li>\n<li>Added the possibility to swipe to archive an item on mobile devices<\/li>\n<li>Make the whole menu row clickable on small screens<\/li>\n<li>Add API methods for groups<\/li>\n<li>Added Beanstalkd producer\/worker<\/li>\n<li>Use HTTP_HOST instead of SERVER_NAME to guess hostname<\/li>\n<li>Run php-cs-fixer on the code base<\/li>\n<li>Add sorting direction link to the history section<\/li>\n<li>Make read\/bookmark icons more usable in mobile view<\/li>\n<li>Record last login timestamp in the database<\/li>\n<li>Add japanese language<\/li>\n<li>Replace help window by layer<\/li>\n<li>Create automatically the favicon directory if missing<\/li>\n<li>Add group filter to history and bookmarks section<\/li>\n<li>Dependencies update<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thanks to all contributors!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/miniflux.net\/miniflux-1.1.10.zip\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Download archive<\/a><\/p>",
        "updated": "1469923200",
        "enclosure_url": "",
        "enclosure_type": "",
        "language": "",
        "rtl": "0"
    },
    "id": 1323079112
}

changeItemsStatus

Purpose: Mark items as read/unread
Parameters:
- item_ids ([]integer)
- status (string, possible values: read or unread)
Result on success: true
Result on failure: false

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "changeItemsStatus",
  "id": 155789655,
  "params": [
    [1],
    "read"
  ]
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": true,
    "id": 155789655
}

addBookmark

Purpose: Mark item as bookmark
Parameters:
- item_id (integer)
Result on success: true
Result on failure: false

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "addBookmark",
  "id": 791748350,
  "params": [
    1
  ]
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": true,
    "id": 791748350
}

removeBookmark

Purpose: Mark item as not bookmarked
Parameters:
- item_id (integer)
Result on success: true
Result on failure: false

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "removeBookmark",
  "id": 16893793,
  "params": [
    1
  ]
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": true,
    "id": 16893793
}

getGroups

Purpose: Get list of groups
Parameters: none
Result on success: list of group objects
Result on failure: false

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getGroups",
  "id": 1922098828
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": [
        {
            "id": "1",
            "user_id": "1",
            "title": "open source software"
        }
    ],
    "id": 1922098828
}

createGroup

Purpose: Add new group
Parameters:
- title (string)
Result on success: group_id
Result on failure: false

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "createGroup",
  "id": 924207274,
  "params": [
    "foobar"
  ]
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": 2,
    "id": 924207274
}

setFeedGroups

Purpose: Assign/Unassign groups to a subscription
Parameters:
- feed_id (integer)
- group_ids ([]integer)
Result on success: true
Result on failure: false

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "setFeedGroups",
  "id": 594627291,
  "params": [
    1,
    [2, 3]
  ]
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": true,
    "id": 594627291
}

getFavicons

Purpose: Get list of favicons
Parameters: none
Result on success: list of favicon objects
Result on failure: false

Request example:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getFavicons",
  "id": 1029539064
}

Response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": [
        {
            "feed_id": "1",
            "hash": "bec82599c771aea672bea5a9a2988f150a849390",
            "type": "image\/png",
            "data_url": "data:image\/png;base64,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"
        }
    ],
    "id": 1029539064
}

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Json-RPC API

Protocol

Credentials

Authentication

Examples

Example with cURL

Procedures

getVersion

createUser

removeUser

getUserByUsername

getFeeds

getFeed

createFeed

removeFeed

refreshFeed

getItems

getItemsByStatus

getItem

changeItemsStatus

addBookmark

removeBookmark

getGroups

createGroup

setFeedGroups

getFavicons

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Json-RPC API

Protocol

Credentials

Authentication

Examples

Example with cURL

Procedures

getVersion

createUser

removeUser

getUserByUsername

getFeeds

getFeed

createFeed

removeFeed

refreshFeed

getItems

getItemsByStatus

getItem

changeItemsStatus

addBookmark

removeBookmark

getGroups

createGroup

setFeedGroups

getFavicons