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User Documentation

Sync Clients

There are numerous sync clients available which interface with the News app's API:

• Available Clients

Subscription URL

By appending ?subscribe_to=SOME_URL to your News app URL, you can launch the News app with a prefilled URL, e.g.:

https://yourdomain.com/owncloud/index.php/apps/news?subscribe_to=https://github.com/owncloud/news/releases

Admin Documentation

Updater

The News app provides an API for parallel feed updates which is very similar to system and web cron. The following implementations exist:

• ownCloud News Updater in Python

Explore feeds section

The News app uses a JSON format to display the feeds in the explore feed section:

• Add feeds to the default News explore page
• How to provide an explore service The URL can be changed in the admin page to use a custom service to show feed recommendations

Developer Documentation

Plugins

The News app provides a plugin interface for developers, see How to write plugins

Existing plugins include:

• Share an article via Mail by Alessandro Cosentino

Requested plugins include: Hints and descriptions how on how to implement it are included. If you need further help, feel free to ask!

• Bookmark an article: Create a button that allows you to bookmark articles in the bookmarks app
• Delete content of inactive users: On bigger hosted installations it might be useful to clean up the database by removing content of inactive users
• Open all unread articles shortcut: This might be interesting for feeds that contain images and you just want to open all of them.

News API Documentation

• News app v1.2 API documentation

The following libraries can be used to use the News app API easily:

• Node.js:
• oc-news-js