Hey @Alkarex thanks for reaching out! Your docs on the API were super helpful when implementing this.

I'll take a look at the tickets you linked. I definitely want to add labels at some point soon.

@st123m123 which version of the app are you running? There was a bug (f08dfbc) in the network policy preventing HTTP/cleartext that should have been fixed as of 2025.01.1089.

I was still using the previous version 2024.12.1087. Now updating to the latest version, it works. Many thanks

Ok, thanks. I thought I could just ‘add’ an account rather than replacing the existing one

It does not work yet though:
I put this address: http://freshrss.lan/api/greader.php/ with my username and password, but it fails:
Failed with status 503 Service Unavailable
Any ideas?

I haven't seen that before with FreshRSS but general, the app connected to a server, but the server failed. The exact error might show up in the FreshRSS server's logs (docs).

Solved: I had not enabled API on my freshrss installation. Also I was trying with my username/password, whereas I should have used the API password.
Thanks for your support @jocmp

Sweet. Thanks for posting the solution too!

Solved: I had not enabled API on my freshrss installation. Also I was trying with my username/password, whereas I should have used the API password. Thanks for your support @jocmp

Thanks montechristos, this fixed my issue as well!

@jocmp is it possible to mark montechristos's response as the answer for better visibility? Moving to another discussion may be a better option as I see this discussion was originally intended as a feature announcement.

This api does (mostly) work in newsboat so there's a subtle difference in the way capy understands the api that's tripping me up

Hey @margaretjoanmiller, let me see if I can help. Capy fetches subscriptions and then adapts them (source code) into a data model called a "feed" internally. The access is somewhat indirect so that all sources have a shared data model.

In terms of JSON, I think the most robust Google Reader documentation I found - and I used for Capy Reader - was the FeedHQ docs (https://feedhq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/reference.html). They also include an example with the subscription JSON format (link):

{
    "subscriptions": [
        {
            "title": "A List Apart", // Capy uses this for the feed title
            "firstitemmsec": "1373999174000",
            "htmlUrl": "http://alistapart.com",
            "sortid": "B0000000",
            "id": "feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/alistapart/main",  // Capy uses this to refresh feed entries
            "categories": [
                {
                    "id": "user/1/label/Tech",
                    "label": "Tech" 
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

FreshRSS also has a list of other resources for Google Reader API that may be useful: https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/developers/06_GoogleReader_API.html. Let me know if that answers your questions!

Hmm I think I'm implementing that properly but still no luck. I'll do some digging in the source code to see if I can find anything.