Controlling Minuflux with its Go API client

Miniflux is a wonderful self-hosted RSS reader that can also serve as backend aggregator for various apps - thanks to the support of the “Google Reader” aggregator API and several others.

But one more of its wonderful features is a convenient API that can fill in any gaps in the UI. As Miniflux is written in Go, the official API client is also in Go.

For example, here is a script to wipe a category of feeds. Useful to fix botched imports:

package main

import (
	"log"

	miniflux "miniflux.app/client"
)

func main() {
	client := miniflux.New("https://myminifluxinstance.com", "myapikey")

	categoryID := int64(7) // look up on Categories page

	feeds, err := client.CategoryFeeds(categoryID)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	for _, feed := range feeds {
		err := client.DeleteFeed(feed.ID)
		if err != nil {
			log.Fatal(err)
		}
	}
}

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